Asset Tracing & Recovery (Law Firms)
Litigation Support Guide 2024 : Global-wide
Band 2
About
Provided by Lalive
The firm has strong experience in asset recovery matters that result from misappropriation of assets, unpaid debts, fraud and corruption across jurisdictions in the following areas:
- Attachment and interim measures
- Enforcement of judgment and arbitral awards
- Commercial fraud litigation
- Insolvency proceedings
- Criminal proceedings
- Mutual legal assistance in criminal and civil matters
- Recognition and enforcement of foreign awards
- Recognition of foreign bankruptcy judgments in Switzerland
- Act as administrators, liquidators, trustees
Chambers Review
Swiss firm Lalive acts on behalf of governments, companies and individuals in order to recover misappropriated assets or debts. The firm handles multi-jurisdictional, complex and high-stakes disputes and regularly secures claims through attachment proceedings, obtaining freezing orders and enforcing judgments or arbitral awards.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Lalive is a really fantastic firm with a lot of talented asset recovery people."
"Lalive are very adept and responsive. They were able to deploy a large, well skilled team, and handle all relevant matters very quickly."
"Lalive is a really fantastic firm with a lot of talented asset recovery people."
"Lalive are very adept and responsive. They were able to deploy a large, well skilled team, and handle all relevant matters very quickly."
Notable Practitioners
Sandrine Giroud specialises in domestic and international litigation, with a focus on asset recovery in fraud and white-collar crime matters. She regularly advises clients on freezing orders, recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments and awards, and cross-border insolvency proceedings.
"Sandrine is good: strategic and smart. She is on top of it in cases."
"Sandrine Giroud is very good. She is extremely dedicated and very client oriented."