Sandrine Giroud
LALIVEOwing to the firm’s specialism in dispute resolution, the ‘hands-on, capable’ investigations, regulatory and compliance team at LALIVE offers expert advice to corporates and UHNWIs on asset recovery and financial crime proceedings. Team head Daniel Lucien Bühr acts for corporate and financial sector clients on high-value and landmark financial crime investigations and proceedings. Expert litigator Sandrine Giroud also heads the team and acts for UHNWIs during significant and cross-border financial crime investigations.
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‘Hands-on, capable, and very familiar with local market practice.’
Work highlights
- Representing a UHNWI and related entities in one of the largest art fraud cases, which involves representation in Swiss civil and criminal proceedings as a result of alleged fraud related to artwork transactions exceeding one billion US dollars involving several jurisdictions.
- Advising and representing the government of Brazil in a large-scale investigation, tracing and recovery of illicit assets and proceeds of crimes notably held in banks in Switzerland and other countries.
- Representing companies and private individuals in several separate cases, for combined losses of approximately USD 100 million, against a Swiss private bank and its management in claims of embezzlement, fraud and forgery of banking documents by one of the bank’s senior executives.
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Daniel Lucien Bühr, Sandrine Giroud