Simone Nadelhofer
Europe Guide 2024
Band 2 : White-Collar Crime
Band 2
About
Provided by Simone Nadelhofer
Practice Areas
Simone Nadelhofer specialises in complex domestic and cross-border proceedings and investigations, including fraud and white-collar crime, asset recovery, international mutual assistance in criminal and tax matters and international sanctions. She advises clients on crisis management, compliance and remedial action and is regularly retained by corporate clients to lead large-scale domestic or multijurisdictional internal investigations. She also advises clients on conducting investigations into harassment allegations (#MeToo), business and human rights and ESG-related disputes.
Career
Simone joined LALIVE in 2009. Partner. Before joining LALIVE, practised in Zurich as an attorney with renowned law firms, as a foreign attorney with an international law firm in New Delhi, India (2002-2003) and as legal counsel with a major Swiss bank (2001-2002).
Professional Memberships
She is Anti-Corruption Committee Liaison Officer of the IBA’s Business Crime Committee, Past Chair of the Anti-corruption and the Rule of Law Committee at the Inter Pacific Bar Association (IPBA) and a member of the advisory board of the Master Economic Crime Investigations studies at the Lucerne University. In January 2021 she was elected to the pool of presidents of the arbitration court of the Swiss Bar Association and the Swiss Notaries Association. Simone Nadelhofer is a member of several professional associations, including the Advisory Board for the project of the Swiss National Scientific Fund “Assessing the nature and impact of transnational corruption through the lens of Swiss Businesses,” the ACi ISO Subcommittee for the new ISO standard on internal investigations, the Swiss Association of Experts in Economic Crime Investigation, the Zurich and Swiss Bar Association and the European Criminal Bar Association (ECBA).
Personal
Languages: German, French, English and Italian. Holds a PhD., summa cum laude, from the University of Lucerne, and a Master of Advanced Studies in Economic Crime Investigation from Lucerne Business School (MAS ECI, 2007).