SWITZERLAND Law and Practice Contributed by: Yves Klein, Monfrini Bitton Klein
Monfrini Bitton Klein was founded in Geneva by Enrico Monfrini in 1978, focusing on international business law and complex litigation. The asset re - covery practice of the firm started in the 1990s with the representation of foreign governments, compa - nies, individuals and liquidators of bankruptcies, and victims of fraud and Ponzi schemes. In 2017, the firm changed its name to Monfrini Bitton Klein and became a litigation-only practice to offer conflict- free services to its clients, focusing on asset recov - ery, white-collar crime and cross-border litigation,
in particular the enforcement of foreign judgments, bankruptcy decisions or arbitral awards, and the ob - taining of evidence and interim measures in support of foreign proceedings. Monfrini Bitton Klein is the representative for Switzerland of ICC FraudNet, the leading global network of fraud and asset recovery lawyers, and has access around the world to hun - dreds of specialised correspondent lawyers, private investigators, forensic accountants, insolvency prac - titioners and litigation funders.
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Yves Klein is a partner at Monfrini Bitton Klein and is a world-leading asset recovery lawyer. His main activities are litigating and
co-ordinating transnational asset recovery proceedings before civil, criminal and bankruptcy courts – cross-border litigation. He is also active in white-collar crime and anti-corruption proceedings. Yves has published and presented at international conferences on those topics since the 1990s. He is fluent in French, English, Portuguese and Spanish, and speaks some Italian and German. He has been top-ranked in Chambers and Partners’ Litigation Support Global Guide in Asset Tracing & Recovery since 2019, when the category was created.
Monfrini Bitton Klein Place du Molard 3 1204 Geneva Switzerland
Tel: +41 22 310 2266 Fax: +41 22 310 2486 Email: mail@mbk.law Web: www.mbk.law/en
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