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."

A judicial iron arm beetween Dmitry Rybolovlev and Yves Bouvier that started in 2015 continues. On 8 February 2018, the art dealer Yves Bouvier, assisted by David Bitton, was examined by Geneva Public Prosecutor Yves Bertossa. Affaire Rybolovlev : le marchand d'art Yves Bouvier auditionné à Genève

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 Monday, Bern signed with Nigeria and the World Bank an agreement on the monitoring of the return of US$321 million of Abacha funds to Nigeria. Enrico Monfrini was interviewed by Le Temps on the asset recovery efforts led by him and our firm on behalf of Nigeria to achieve the forfeiture of those assets by the Attorney General of Geneva in December 2014. Affaire Abacha: la Suisse rend 321 millions de dollars au Nigeria.

A judicial brawl that continues between Me Bitton, Geneva lawyer, representing of Yves Bouvier and Me Temime, Parisian lawyer, representing of Dmitri Rybolovlev.

Pourquoi l'affaire Bouvier s'éternise

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.

After the sale of the Salvator Mundi David BITTON speaks to the Tribune de Genève on the Bouvier v Rybolovlev case.

(Le divorce du siècle hante l’affaire Bouvier)

David Bitton was interviewed on the impact of the Salvator Mundi sale on the dispute between the Russian oligarch Dmitri Rybolovlev and the Geneva art dealer Yves Bouvier.

«Salvator Mundi»: Dmitri Rybolovlev est invité à retirer sa plainte contre Yves Bouvier / Le Christ vendu, «il n'y a plus d'affaire Bouvier».

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.