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Our Counsel Natalia Hidalgo attended the AIJA Half-Year December Conference in Hamburg
Our Counsel Natalia Hidalgo attended the AIJA Half-Year December Conference in Hamburg on 4 December, where she took part in the session "Lost in Space: How Finance and Insolvency Principles Will Impact the Future of Aviation Cyberspace."
She joined an excellent panel alongside Audrey Jarreton (Loyens & Loeff, Luxembourg), Jessica Richards (Farrer & Co, United Kingdom), and Cansu Senol Baspinar (Pegasus Airlines, Türkiye), moderated by Çagdas Umut Vardar (Vardar Sanli, Türkiye).
Organised by the Banking, Finance & Capital Markets and Insolvency Commissions, the session explored how traditional financing and insolvency principles will shape the future of aviation, cyberspace and commercial space activities, with a focus on anticipating risks, building resilient financing structures and tackling cross-border insolvency challenges.
Our Senior Associate Evin Durmaz spoke at the Thought Leaders 4 FIRE for Women in FIRE conference
Our Senior Associate Evin Durmaz chaired, alongside Sue Thackeray of Kingsley Napley, a panel discussion on pitfalls to avoid as an asset recovery practitioner.
We were delighted to sponsor the Thought Leaders 4 FIRE Women in FIRE – Asset Recovery in Action conference held in London on Thursday, November 27, attended by Yves Klein, Evin Durmaz, Léa Froidevaux, and Lucile Cuccodoro.
We are proud to support this women-led forum dedicated to high-level technical content, professional development, and meaningful inclusion.
Our partner Yves Klein has received for the fourth time the “Asset Recovery Lawyer of the Year Award”
Our partner Yves Klein received the "Asset Recovery Lawyer of the Year Award" for the fourth time at the Lexology Index Awards ceremony held at Merchant Taylors' Hall in London on 26 November 2025.
Our partner Yves Klein has contributed to the latest edition of Enforcement of Judgments 2025 Chambers Global Practice Guide for Switzerland.
This guide provides the up to date legal information on the process of enforcing domestic and foreign judgments and arbitral awards in Switzerland.
Yves Klein recognised as Global Elite Thought Leader by Lexology Index
We are proud to announce that our partner Yves Klein has once again been recognized as a Global Elite Thought Leader in the field of asset recovery and in the GIR – Thought Leaders Guides, published by Lexology Index (formerly Who's Who Legal) for his exceptional expertise and dedication to this discipline.
Lexology Index brings together the knowledge, expertise, and experience of the world's leading lawyers and specialists in a single report. These individuals have received the highest number of nominations from their peers, corporate legal advisors, and other industry contributors in recent surveys.
Our partner Yves Klein will be contributing to the sessions on the Identification of Assets as part of INSOL International’s new Short Course in Asset Tracing and Recovery
Running from 1 October 2025 to 31 March 2026, this six-month online course is designed to equip professionals with 5+ years’ experience in Restructuring, Insolvency, or AssetRecovery with advanced strategies for identifying, tracing, preserving, and recovering assets — including digital and crypto assets — in today’s complex Cross-border environment.
Yves will contribute to Sessions 2 & 3: Identification of Assets, where he will cover key topics such as:
- Tracing and profiling assets before bringing legal applications, including scenarios with no obvious assets to enforce;
- Practical considerations and legal remedies across different jurisdictions;
- Using insolvency tools and preventive measures to secure assets;
- Mandatory and ad hoc disclosures, preservation applications, and the effects of commencing insolvency proceedings;
- Comparative insights from the UK (common law) and the Netherlands (civil law), as well as perspectives on offshore jurisdictions.
He will be joined by fellow instructors Angela Barkhouse (Kroll, Cayman Islands), Ros Prince (Stephenson Harwood, UK), Antonia Mottironi (Ardenter Law, Switzerland), and Chris Parker (DLA Piper, UK).
Together, they will explore practical strategies and legal tools for identifying and preserving assets in cross-border insolvency and fraud cases. Topics will include asset tracing methodologies, disclosure mechanisms, jurisdictional considerations, and comparative insights from common and civil law systems.
Our partner Yves Klein has contributed to the Asset Tracing & Recovery Overview for Chambers and Partners Litigation Support Guide 2025
Our partner Yves Klein has contributed to the Asset Tracing & Recovery Overview for Chambers and Partners Litigation Support Guide 2025 with an article titled International Asset Tracing and Recovery at 25: Where Do We Stand?, where he reflects on the evolution of the practice over the past 25 years—from its beginning as a nascent concept at the turn of the century to its emergence as a globalised and structured discipline, blending public and private law, civil and criminal enforcement. The article explores the pivotal roles played by UNCAC, ICC FraudNet, StAR, UNCITRAL, FATF, and the IBA Asset Recovery Committee in shaping the modern framework of international asset recovery.
Our associates recognized as Thought Leading Authors in Mondaq’s Spring and Thought Leadership Awards Switzerland
Our firm has been recognized in the Mondaq Spring 2025 Thought Leadership Awards — achieving top positions for Thought Leadership Awards Switzerland in several categories.
Under the leadership of Elisa Branca, our weekly Newsletter on Asset Recovery, Business Crime and Cross-border Litigation has been awarded in:
Finance and Banking:
Newsletter n°84, authored by Elisa Branca, Frieda Bouma and Serena Colasanto
Government, Public Sector:
Newsletter n°93, authored by Elisa Branca, Frieda Bouma and Serena Colasanto
Our Newsletter provides (in French) a regular summary of key decisions from the Federal Supreme Court on business crime, criminal procedure, debt enforcement and bankruptcy, private international law, and mutual assistance.
In addition, we are delighted to announce that, in the category:
Compliance and Government, Public Sector,
the article Anti-Money Laundering Comparative Guide, authored by Edouard Kaiflin and Natalia Hidalgo, was also recognized with an award.
You can view our profile and the list of winners here.
For the seventh consecutive year, our partner Yves Klein is top-ranked in Band 1.