Enrico Monfrini, David Biton and Yves Klein feature in Who's Who Legal Special Report on Switzerland 2019 in the Asset Recovery, Business Crime Defense and Litigation categories.

Yves Klein participated in the 1st International Seminar on Asset Recovery as a Tool in Combating Fraud and Corruption of the Brazilian Institute for Asset Recovery/Instituto Brasileiro de Rastreamento de Ativos (IBRA) and presented on Conflict between criminal and insolvency proceedings/Conflito entre o procedimento criminal e falimentar

Enrico Monfrini and Yves Klein feature in the inaugural edition of Who's Who Legal Thought Leaders: Switzerland 2018, which brings together the country’s foremost practitioners across a diverse range of practice areas.

According to Who's Who Legal Special Report on Switzerland, 

Yves Klein at MONFRINI BITTON KLEIN is the foremost asset recovery specialist in the Swiss market, who is “very well known” among peers as “an excellent strategist”. According to one source, “He is in the top echelon of practitioners in the field.” Enrico Monfrini is internationally recognised for his excellence when it comes to asset recovery matters, and garners praise for his work tracing the proceeds of corruption.

Monfrini Bitton Klein sponsored the Committees on Anti-Corruption, Business Crime and Criminal Law joint dinner at the IBA Annual Conference in Rome.

At the IBA Annual Conference in Rome, Yves Klein co-moderated the Mock Trial, titled The Briber’s Dilemma in Parallel Criminal, Arbitral and Civil Asset Recovery Proceedings, which took place at Italy's Supreme Court of Cassation and explored how the issues of circulation of evidence, legal profesional privilege and privilege against self incrimination are managed in criminal, arbitral and civil asset recovery proceedings by having the same persons examined by an Italian criminal court, an ICSID arbitral tribunal and the English High Court on the same set of facts. Hon. Judges of Italy's Supreme Court of Cassation Pierluigi Di Stefano and Andrea Venegoni, served respectively as Judge and as Attorney General in the Italian criminal proceedings. Sir John Goldring, President of the Cayman Islands Court of Appeal, presided over the English and ICSID hearings.

Monfrini Bitton Klein features once again prominently in Who's Who Legal 2018, in the Asset Recovery, Business Crime Defense and Litigation practice areas:

Legendary litigator Enrico Monfrini is one of Switzerland’s most eminent names in the field of asset recovery, with 40 years’ experience in complex domestic and international civil and criminal proceedings (WWL Asset Recovery).

David Bitton is a well-known figure when it comes to individual defence work, and is commended by sources for his “unwavering commitment and dedication to the client” (WWL Business Crime Defense).

Yves Klein is “a thought leader in the sphere of asset recovery”, an area in which “he demonstrates creativity and exemplary technical expertise” (WWL Asset Recovery). Yves Klein is one of the leading financial and business crime litigation lawyers working the market today (WWL Litigation).

Yves Klein and Antonia Mottironi contributed to the chapter on Switzerland of the latest edition of Thomson Reuters’ Practical Guide on Enforcement of Judgments and Arbitral Awards (2018).

Enrico Monfrini and Yves Klein were ranked by Who's Who Legal: Asset Recovery 2018, and Yves Klein was recognized as the No. 1 Asset Recovery Thought Leader in Europe, Middle-East and Africa (onshore jurisdictions):

Two practitioners from this well-known Swiss outfit are recognised, including market powerhouse Yves Klein.

Yves Klein is “a thought leader in the sphere of asset recovery”, an area in which “he demonstrates creativity and exemplary technical expertise”. Sources commend him for his “unparalleled strategic insight”, with one noting, “He is the one to go to when it comes to enforcement.”

Enrico Monfrini is widely recognised as a standout asset recovery lawyer across EMEA, and wins high praise for his expert handling of business-crime investigations, corruption and asset recovery matters.

Monfrini Bitton Klein hosted a luncheon on "Corruption and arbitration: risk and evidentiary issues" for 20 participants at the London C5 Anti-Corruption Conference on 27-28 June 2018. Yves Klein and Claire Daams were joined by Théobald Naud, of DLA Piper France LLP, Paris, and Ravinder Thukral, of Brown Rudnick LLP, London and Paris, to discuss on the issue of the existence of different rules and practices applying to the proof of corruption in parallel criminal, administrative, arbitral and civil proceedings, in particular to privilege, right against self incrimination, admissibility of evidence and publicity. On the eve of the conference, Monfrini Bitton Klein hosted an anti-corruption and asset recovery dinner at the Swan, in the Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre.

Yves Klein and Claire Daams presented at the IBA 16^th Anti-Corruption Conference in Paris on 12 and 13 June 2018 on “How to recover assets but avoid confronting the corrupt politician directly” and “Self-reporting and legal professional privilege in the context of bribery investigations”. Monfrini Bitton Klein sponsored the conference dinner.