SWITZERLAND Trends and Developments
Trends and Developments Contributed by: Yves Klein Monfrini Bitton Klein
Monfrini Bitton Klein was founded in Geneva by En - rico Monfrini in 1978 focusing on international busi - ness law and complex litigation. The asset recovery practice of the firm started in the 1990s with the representation of foreign governments, companies, individuals and liquidators of bankruptcies, and vic - tims of fraud and Ponzi schemes. In 2017, the firm changed its name to Monfrini Bitton Klein and be - came a litigation-only practice to offer conflict-free services to its clients, focusing on asset recovery, white-collar crime and cross-border litigation, in par -
ticular the enforcement of foreign judgments, bank - ruptcy decisions or arbitral awards, and the obtain - ing 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 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
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