Who's Who Legal Special Report on Switzerland has just been published.

The Asset Recovery section prominently features our partners Enrico Monfrini and Yves Klein: 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.

David Bitton is recognized in the Business Crime Defense section: 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”.

On Thursday 12 April, Claire Daams and Yves Klein presented on La conformité à l’ordre public et l’exécution des sentences arbitrales en Europe, in a session chaired by Florence Richard, with Emilie Gonin, Hakim Boularbah and Guy Lepage at the breakfast organized by the ICC International Court of Arbitration and La Française International Claims Collection during the Paris Arbitration Week.

Yves Klein and Claire Daams chaired a panel on Arbitration and Corruption during the Zurich C5 Anti-Corruption Conference, 19-21 March 2018. They were joined by Balz Gross, of Homburger, Zurich, and Ravinder Thukral, of Brown Rudnick LLP, London and Paris to discuss about applicable legal and procedural principles, the gathering and use of evidence and public v. private interest.

Monfrini Bitton Klein was once again recognized by Chambers and Partners as a leading firm for its business crime and asset recovery practices. According to Chambers, sources "appreciate and respect their high professional skills and qualities."

On Friday 12 January, our partner Yves Klein presented on ‘How to prove criminal conduct? Evidence issues’ at Basel University conference on ‘Arbitration and Crime - Dealing with Allegations of Economic Crime in Arbitration’  

On 1 December, Yves Klein and Claire Daams presented on "Asset recovery in international corruption cases" at the BijzonderStrafrecht.nl Academy's Anti-Bribery & Corruption Conference 2017 in Amsterdam.

Yves Klein has been named Asset Recovery Thought Leader by Who's Who Legal 2018.

For more information, read his Q&A here.

Yves Klein co-chaired the IBA Latin American Anti-Corruption Enforcement and Compliance Conference in São Paulo. He also moderated the session titled "Civil and insolvency asset recovery tools: a complement to criminal proceedings".

Claire Daams moderated the session titled « The anti-corruption revolution – is it actually taking place in Latin America? A view from the enforcement agencies ».

Yves Klein and Claire Daams also animated an asset recovery workshop for Latin American prosecutors on the interaction between criminal proceedings and civil & insolvency asset recovery tools, which enjoyed the support of the IBA and the OECD.

On Tuesday 10 October, Yves Klein co-chaired the session titled Offshore structures as a barrier to recovery of assets from criminals - Beneficial ownership issues and chaired the Asset Recovery Subcommittee open business meeting.

On the same day, Johnson Winter & Slattery, Peters & Peters and Monfrini Bitton Klein hosted a lunch at the O Bar for representatives of law enforcement and regulatory authorities attending the conference.

On Wednesday 11 October, Claire Daams co-chaired the Global anti-corruption update.

In the evening, Monfrini Bitton Klein sponsored the joint dinner of the Anti-Corruption, Business Crime and Criminal Law Committees.