Yves Klein

Practice Areas

Admitted to the bars of Geneva and Switzerland since 1995, Yves Klein is an international asset recovery lawyer, and a partner at Monfrini Bitton Klein. His main activity is litigating and coordinating transnational asset recovery proceedings before civil, criminal and bankruptcy courts on behalf of victims of economic crimes. He is also active in business crime and anti-corruption proceedings. He is representative for Switzerland of ICC FraudNet, the world’s leading asset recovery network. He is fluent in French, English, Portuguese and Spanish, and speaks some Italian and German.

Professional Memberships

ICC-FraudNet, International Bar Association (former Chair, Asset Recovery Subcommittee of the Anti-Corruption Committee 2016-2017), Swiss Bar Association, Geneva Bar Association, ASA - Swiss Arbitration Association, American Bankruptcy Institute, INSOL Europe

Publications

Switzerland, Enforcement of Judgments 2021-2023, Chambers and Partners' Global Practice Guide

Enforcement of judgments and arbitral awards in Switzerland: overview, Enforcement of Judgments and Arbitral Awards in Commercial Matters Global Guide, Practical Law, Thomson Reuters, 2020-2023

Switzerland, The Asset Tracing and Recovery Review, Law Business Research, September 2019-2023

A new Swiss §1782? Article 185a PILA and the assistance of Swiss courts in support of foreign arbitral evidentiary proceedings, ThoughtLeaders 4 FIRE Magazine, June 2022

Trust your standing! Standing of beneficiaries of trusts and foundations in Swiss criminal or mutual assistance proceedings, Mondaq, December 2021

Hand over the keys to the safe! Obligation of Swiss banks to provide information in bankruptcy proceedings, including evidence against themselves, Mondaq, November 2021

Switzerland: Post-Brexit Enforcement Of UK Judgments In Switzerland: All Is Not Lost, Mondaq, September 2021

Switzerland: Privileged Or Not Privileged? Privilege Of Communications With Non-Swiss Lawyers In Criminal Investigations, Mondaq, September 2021

Better than damages: actions for performance against Swiss banks regarding fraudulent transfers, Mondaq, November 2021

A journey between distant places: how Saad Group’s Cayman liquidators are seeking compensation from foreign banks, Insol World, Q3, November 2020

Switzerland, The Anti-Bribery and Anti-Corruption Review, Law Business Research, 2016-2019

Suíça: como as novas regras de homologação de falências estrangeiras beneficiarão os credores Brasileiros (Switzerland: how new cross-border insolvency rules will benefit Brazilian creditors), A Insolvência, IBAJUD - Instituto Brasileiro de Administração Judicial, São Paulo, November 2018

Switzerland: Improving Cooperation To Recover Assets In Cross-Border Insolvency Cases, Legal Era, Mumbai, April 2018

Switzerland - A new hope? The Swiss Government adopts its Dispatch to the Parliament on an amendment to the provisions governing recognition of foreign insolvencies, Lexology, June 2017

A Civil Perspective on Asset Recovery (with a Focus on Swiss Law), The International Who’s Who of Asset Recovery Lawyers, London, 2014

Emergence of the Mareva by Letter: banks' liability to noncustomer victims of fraud, Business Law International, London, May 2011

L’État requérant lésé par l’organisation criminelle : L’exemple des cas Abacha et Duvalier, Etat de droit et confiscation internationale, Edis, Geneva, 2010

The Abacha Case, Recovering Stolen Assets, Peter Lang, Bern, 2008

Switzerland, Asset Tracing & Recovery - The FraudNet World Compendium, Eric Schmidt Verlag, 2009

Switzerland, International Tracing of Assets, Sweet & Maxwell, London, 1996