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ECONOMIC CRIME PREVENTION ADVISORY BOARD
Barbara Tsai
Dr. Nora Bartos
Martins Ogbolu
Mekhla Basu
Richard Blann is Head of Group Litigation & Conduct Investigations Legal at Lloyds Banking Group where he advises senior management on litigation strategy and tactics. He manages a broad portfolio of high value/high profile claims in the UK, US and beyond, supports significant internal investigations, and advises on financial crime. He also leads the Group’s Data Litigation team.
Prior to joining Lloyds in 2010, Richard worked in private practice conducting cross-border investigations and high value multi-jurisdictional litigation in the courts of a variety of jurisdictions for financial institutions, corporates and professional services firms.
Richard Blann
Richard Blann is Head of Group Litigation & Conduct Investigations Legal at Lloyds Banking Group where he advises senior management on litigation strategy and tactics. He manages a broad portfolio of high value/high profile claims in the UK, US and beyond, supports significant internal investigations, and advises on financial crime. He also leads the Group’s Data Litigation team.
Prior to joining Lloyds in 2010, Richard worked in private practice conducting cross-border investigations and high value multi-jurisdictional litigation in the courts of a variety of jurisdictions for financial institutions, corporates and professional services firms.
Shulin is the Chief Compliance, Legal and Risk Officer at Sentbe, a leading global provider of foreign exchange total solutions.
She began her career as an Air Traffic Controller for the RSAF. In 2013, she pivoted to law and finance, focussing on strategic planning and execution of compliance programmes, leading enterprise-wide regulatory projects and driving change management initiatives at JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank and Mastercard. In 2019, Shulin began her start-up adventure as a Senior Legal Counsel at Revolut.
At Sentbe and Revolut, Shulin helps to secure the necessary licences and authorisations to operate in various jurisdictions and provides practical and innovative solutions in support of global product launches.
Shulin holds a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Michigan and a Juris Doctor Degree from the George Washington University Law School. She is also a member of the New York State Bar.
Shulin Tay
Shulin is the Chief Compliance, Legal and Risk Officer at Sentbe, a leading global provider of foreign exchange total solutions.
She began her career as an Air Traffic Controller for the RSAF. In 2013, she pivoted to law and finance, focussing on strategic planning and execution of compliance programmes, leading enterprise-wide regulatory projects and driving change management initiatives at JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank and Mastercard. In 2019, Shulin began her start-up adventure as a Senior Legal Counsel at Revolut.
At Sentbe and Revolut, Shulin helps to secure the necessary licences and authorisations to operate in various jurisdictions and provides practical and innovative solutions in support of global product launches.
Shulin holds a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Michigan and a Juris Doctor Degree from the George Washington University Law School. She is also a member of the New York State Bar.
Tapan Debnath
Why Attend
- Economic Crime Prevention and Compliance Switzerland will take place again in March 2024 in Zurich. The event provides a unique platform for legal and compliance experts to discuss the latest compliance and regulatory enforcement challenges.
- Attend this event to hear from in-house experts on the most pressing challenges facing the legal and compliance field, expert practitioners on regulatory updates and insight, and government officials, providing an inside look at enforcement priorities. Partake in discussion focused on best practices and solutions to ensure effective compliance strategies, that mitigate risk and reduce financial impact.
- Join leading speakers from companies across multiple industries, including financial services, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, commodities, retail and more.
Topics Previously Discussed
- Sanctions: How to Navigate Through the Current Economic Sanctions Jungle and Minimise Enforcement Risks
- New Swiss ESG Regulations: What Compliance and Legal In-House Need to Know
- Compliance Connaissances Roundtable: Two Interactive Discussions focusing on Industry and Topic Specific Concerns
- Technology and Data Security: Redesigning a Comprehensive Internal Data Security Framework to Reduce Cost, Mitigate Risk and Protect Against Data Breach
- EU and Swiss Whistleblowing: Examining Whistleblowing Implementations in the Private Sector in Switzerland and What is Required to Align with the EU Whistleblowing Directive
- Antibribery: Exploring Updates on FCPA, UKBA and SAPIN II Enforcement, OECD Recommendations, and the Expectations on Swiss Multinationals.
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Previous Speakers
Adrian Mom
Adrian is a Partner in the AlixPartners Risk Advisory team, located in Zurich, Switzerland. He specializes in leveraging cutting-edge technology and accounting expertise to conduct internal and regulatory high-profile investigations, monitorships, risk analytics, comprehensive reviews of compliance programs, and related transformations.
Adrian’s experience includes complex local and cross-border compliance matters across several industries in connection with AFC obligations, (top)-management misconduct, accounting fraud, corruption, bribery, tax fraud, asset misappropriation, and other related offenses.
He is recognized by Who is Who Legal as one of the Future Global Leaders in Investigations 2021 and 2022, is a CFA charter holder and holds a MSc in Finance from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
Adriano Antonietti
Adriano Antonietti advises domestic and foreign banking and financial institutions, as well as collective investment schemes and asset managers on a wide range of matters, in particular regulatory issues, private placements, the drafting of banking contracts and certain tax related matters (FATCA, CRS). He also defends banks and their clients in a number of disputes and deals with all aspects of corporate and commercial law. His main fields include financial products and services, as well as corporate and commercial matters.
Adriano Antonietti obtained a law degree (lic. iur.) from the University of Fribourg in 2005 and worked as a senior associate with another major law firm in Geneva and Zurich before joining Walder Wyss.
Alexander Ghazvinian
Alon Garber
Alon Garber, Head of Ethics & Compliance and Group Internal Audit IT, joined Takeda, a patient-focused, values-based, R&D-driven global biopharmaceutical company in 2016.
In his capacity as IT business partner for these two business functions, Alon is working to deliver on strategic programs such as Compliance Monitoring, Audit Automation and Fraud detection using cutting edge technologies.
Prior to Takeda, Alon worked during 13 years at Merck KGaA, a vibrant science and technology company based in Darmstadt, Germany.
Alon is passionate about using technology to address critical business needs, reduce manual efforts and digitalize end-to-end business processes.
Daniel Gysel
Daniel Lucien BÜHR
Daniel Lucien Bühr joined LALIVE in 2011 and is based in our Zurich office. His main areas of practice are regulatory and banking law and white-collar crime and compliance, principally focusing on investigations, litigation, ESG reporting, governance and risk and compliance management. He also manages complex cross-border legal and compliance projects and monitors corporate compliance remediation projects.
Daniel L. Bühr is a founding member of the International Academy of Financial Crime Litigators (IAFCL) and a member of the European Board of the International Association of Independent Corporate Monitors (IAICM). Daniel L. Bühr is also a member of the Swiss Association for Standardization and a member of the Expert Committees on Compliance management systems and on Governance of organizations of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). He is an accredited ISO Compliance Management System Auditor and co-founder and Honorary Chairman of Ethics and Compliance Switzerland (ECS).
Before joining LALIVE, Daniel L. Bühr was Regional Counsel for a Swiss multinational, responsible for all legal matters in Europe, Russia, the Near East and Africa (2006-2011). During this period, he served as member of the investment committee of Venture Incubator Ltd (a private equity fund of leading Swiss companies). He previously founded and managed a Swiss venture company (2004–2007) and served as Company Secretary and Legal Counsel of a global retail group (1993-2003).
Daniel L. Bühr holds a PhD, summa cum laude, from the University of Berne Institute for Swiss and Foreign Civil Procedure Law and MBA degrees from Columbia University, New York, and London Business School (EMBA Global Programme). He graduated from the University of Berne in 1991 (magna cum laude).
Daniel Weber
Daniel S. Weber is a counsel at Wenger Vieli Ltd., a leading Swiss law firm with offices in Zurich and Zug. He is a member of the firm's white-collar crime & compliance, internal investigations and financial services teams, with broad experience in private practice and in-house, as well as with the Swiss regulator FINMA.
Mr. Weber mainly works in the areas of white-collar and cybercrime, compliance and internal investigations, as well as in banking and financial market law including Fintech.
Based on his prior experience as deputy head investigations at a major Swiss bank and as a secondee in the enforcement division of FINMA, Mr. Weber has in-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and broad experience in conducting large-scale investigations, including whistleblowing proceedings.
Mr. Weber serves as the co-chair of the working group on compliance & investigations of the Zurich Bar Association as well as a part-time prosecutor of the Office of the Swiss Armed Forces Attorney General, where he is a department head and litigates in military courts.
Delphine Forma
Delphine Forma is an experienced compliance officer who worked across different countries and industries including large banks in the U.K. such as Bank of Tokyo – Mitsubishi UFJ and HSBC Bank plc., and blockchain/crypto businesses (exchanges and miners) in Switzerland. She holds a diploma from Sciences Po Lyon, and two master’s degrees specialized in European Criminal Business Law and Frauds and Money Laundering Prevention. Delphine is a Board member of the OpenVASP Association (a non-profit association formed to develop a protocol and standards to allow virtual assets providers and others to comply with the Financial Action Task Force's "travel rule" requiring identifying information for parties involved in transfer of Digital Assets) and has served has a Board Member of the Crypto Valley Association. Delphine is passionate about crypto and all blockchain things.
Eike Bicker
Elena Mokretsova
Elena has extensive international experience in Compliance and Anti-Money Laundering with global financial institutions with roles based in Switzerland, Spain, Mexico and Poland, with special interest in detecting money laundering patterns of Latin-American and Russian organized crime groups, as well as prevention of embezzlement of funds proceeding from public contracts.
In her current role with Banco Santander, she is responsible for leading Financial Crime Compliance team covering Sanctions Screening, Transaction Monitoring, Investigations and Periodic Reviews.
Prior to joining Santander Group in 2018 in Madrid, she was with Citigroup from 2009 until the end of 2017, covering the role of AML Global Investigation Unit Senior Compliance with Citi in Mexico as her last position, working on complex investigative projects on organized crime and corruption proceeds laundering in Latin American Region. Her main achievements in this role include development of investigative projects focused on detection of money laundering schemes used by Russian organized crime applied for Latin American drug-cartels and public embezzlement project aimed to identify corruption schemes in Construction sector in Mexico.
Before that, Elena was AML Quality Assurance Team Leader in Mexico and AML Subject Matter Expert (SME) for EMEA Region in Warsaw, as well with Citigroup. In the SME role in Poland, she was supporting the migration of the AML Operations processes for virtual units in Switzerland, Russia and Ukraine.
She graduated with a master’s degree in International Economics from Lazarski School of Commerce and Law based in Warsaw in 2009 and holds a bachelor’s degree in finance management from Higher School of Economics, Russia. Elena has Advanced AML Certification by International Compliance Association and collaborated for the book The Untold Stories of Financial Crime by Maurren Mutua. She is fluent in 6 languages, including her mother-tongue Russian, Spanish, Polish, English, Portuguese and French.
Faizal Nunes
Faizal Nunes is the Deputy Global Head of Anti-Fraud for Credit Suisse based in Zurich where he is responsible for the global 2LoD Anti-Fraud Programme, Framework and Standards covering Investment Banking, Wealth management, Asset Management divisions as well as Corporate functions.
He has significant experience in multi-jurisdictional forensic investigations, enforcement/monitor led compliance remediation projects, regulatory driven initiatives in various industries as well as hands-on experience in emerging markets.
In addition, Faizal has been working on various initiatives related to reviewing the effectiveness of compliance programmes, identifying risk mitigation measures whilst considering business risk appetite, client engagement and process/control simplification. Faizal’s interests also include proactive identification of new and emerging risks such as Crypto as an Asset class, ESG/climate change and Cyber Fraud.
Prior to Credit Suisse, Faizal was an Assistant Director within EY’s forensic practice where he led a wide range of large-scale investigations in fraud, bribery and corruption as well as compliance projects for EY’s global clients.
Flavio de Souza
Florian Lachenmeier
Education:
M.A. HSG in Accounting and Finance. Swiss Certified Public Accountant. Licensed Audit Expert. Lead Auditor for Banks and Securities Dealer
Experience:
Since January 2023: Crypto Finance Group: Head of Compliance. 2018-2022: Geissbühler Weber & Partner (gwp) Focus: licensing, risk management, compliance, investigations. 2017: Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority Secondment Supervisory team large banks (Focus: compliance, conduct, COO). 2007-2018: Deloitte AG Assurance and Advisory Financial Services Industry. 2005: UBS Accounting & Reporting in the Wealth Management & Business Banking division
Floriana Scarlato
Frank Vießmann
Frank Vießmann, Chief Compliance Officer at Continental AG. He joined Continental in 2021 after more than a decade with Mercedes Benz AG (previously Daimler AG).
Frank has been handling several major multinational investigations with a multitude of international regulators such as US DoJ, SEC, EPA, CARB, KFTC, several German Public Prosecutor offices and many more.
In his current task of restructuring Continental’s worldwide Compliance activities, he puts a strong emphasize on strategic and holistic compliance management, driving technological innovation in Compliance processes and fostering Integrity Culture throughout the company.
Gavin Proudley
Gavin Proudley has been helping clients manage financial crime, corruption and reputational risk for over 10 years. He has delivered enhanced due diligence services to clients across a range of jurisdictions and sectors, including financial services, oil and gas, life sciences and manufacturing. Gavin has supported clients involved in high-risk transactions by providing anti-bribery due diligence, and helped others design and implement broader due diligence programs. He works with large financial institutions, particularly with IPO and other investment banking teams, as well as supporting businesses in managing high-risk and high-value relationships. Prior to joining Dow Jones, Gavin was a director in EY's forensic practice and also worked in government for 11 years. He focused on international security and terrorism issues, advising senior officials, ministers and the prime minister's office.
German Florez-Villegas
Giuseppe Deleonardis
Isabelle Birkenkämper
Joanne Fischlin
Juan Antonio de Lassaletta
Juancho de Lassaletta joined Vifor Fresenius Medical Care Renal Pharma (VFMCRP) in August 2019 as Vice-President & Global Head Legal and Compliance.
Juancho studied law at the University of Barcelona and completed postgraduate studies at IESE Business School, Corporate Development Program (PDD).
He started his career at international law firms working during 14 years as a corporate and M&A lawyer in the life sciences spaces in the Iberian and Latin America markets.
His in-house career, as Associate to General Counsel and Head of Compliance, led him in 2015 to InsudPharma Group (generics) where he led the design and implementation of Insudpharm Global Compliance Program with special focus in Latin America.
At VFMCRP, Juancho is globally responsible for all legal, IP, litigation and compliance matters. Interface to global Fresenius Medical Care legal, IP and compliance teams, member of FMC Legal Leadership Team.
His areas of specialization are most notably BD & License-in deals with US biotechs, M&A and Compliance. He works closely with a diverse range of senior stakeholders at Vifor Pharma’s and FMC’s global headquarters, building effective relationships and driving consensus.
Kaisa Karvonen
Katerina Androutsou
Katerina Androutsou is a Compliance Manager & Deputy MLRO at Sygnum Bank AG, the world’s first
digital asset bank founded in Switzerland and Singapore with a global reach.
Prior to joining Sygnum, she worked as Deputy Head of Compliance and Deputy MLRO in Crypto Finance
(Deutsche Börse Group) and as AML/KYC Compliance Lead at Credit Suisse in Switzerland. She has been
intrigued by the legal and compliance aspects of digital assets since her time at the European Central
Bank in Frankfurt. Katerina’s prior experience combines the private legal sector, governmental sector,
and the EU institutions.
Katerina is an EU qualified lawyer holding Bachelor and Master’s Degrees in Law from the Universities of
Athens and Brussels, as well as certificates on blockchain and digital assets. Her focus is on financial
markets law, KYC/AML, financial crime compliance, crypto compliance and blockchain forensic analysis.
Kees van Ophem
Liburn Mehmetaj
Liburn Mehmetaj is a partner with the Banking & Finance practice of Walder Wyss in Geneva. He regularly advises investment funds, asset managers, banks, pension funds, financial service providers and crypto companies. Liburn has developed niche expertise in specific regulated areas, namely in anti-money laundering, anti-bribery, digital assets, and sustainable finance. His expertise extends to the gaming and gambling industry (casinos, sports betting, game developers, suppliers, and investors).
Liburn graduated from the University of Fribourg (Bachelor and Master). The U.S. Department of State awarded him a Fulbright Scholarship to study environmental law at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA 2020).
Livio Russo
Lora von Ploetz
Mark Brannigan
Mark is a Managing Director at Consilio, and has 25 years experience working with global clients, law firms and solution providers to address their most pressing Cybersecurity, eDiscovery, Information Governance and Data Privacy needs. Most recently, Mark spent 6 years as part of Aon’s Cyber Solution EMEA Leadership team working at the vanguard of Cybersecurity, Cyber Risk and Cyber Insurance.
Matthias Glatthaar
Matthias Gstoehl
Matthias specialises in complex domestic and multi-jurisdictional proceedings and investigations, including fraud and white-collar crime, asset recovery, insolvency, international mutual assistance, international sanctions and ESG-litigation.
His practice focuses on banking and finance disputes. Drawing on first-hand experience in the sector, he handles complex matters requiring specialist knowledge in derivative instruments, hedge funds and financial products in general. He regularly acts in contentious corporate, commercial and governance disputes across various other sectors (healthcare, natural resources, sports and trusts).
Matthias Gstoehl is Diversity and Inclusion Officer of the IBA Anti-Corruption Committee, and a member of the expert group for digitalization of the Swiss Bar Association. He is further a member of the International Association of Restructuring, Insolvency & Bankruptcy Professionals (INSOL) and the Zurich Bar Association.
He is a frequent speaker and moderator at international conferences.
Before joining LALIVE, Matthias Gstoehl was a partner at Nater Dallafior (2012 – 2017), worked in derivatives structuring at two leading investment banks in London and Zurich (2006 – 2012), as an associate for Bär & Karrer in Zurich (2001 – 2005) and as a trainee for Froriep in Geneva (1998 – 2000).
Matthias Gstoehl studied law at the Universities of Vienna and Geneva (lic.iur, 1998) and completed postgraduate studies in Finance at London Business School (MSc in Finance, 2006).
Maxine Kennett
Maxine Kennett is the Head of Global Trade Compliance at Hitachi Energy. She is a specialist in trade policy and compliance with nearly 20 years of experience in leading trade teams and programs.
She started her career as a commercial lawyer for the international law firm, Allen & Overy, and then worked governments and international governmental organizations in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East as a Legal Policy Advisor, Trade Negotiator and Economic Growth specialist. In 2010, she returned permanently to Switzerland to take up the role of Head of Legal Affairs (General Counsel) at the International Road Transport Union (IRU) and thereafter the role of Global Head of Trade Affairs at Syngenta.
In January 2020, she joined Hitachi Energy (a global energy company with 40,000 employees) as the Head of Global Trade Compliance – where she leads the Global Trade team (of approximately 70 team members) to ensure trade compliance and optimize trade related business operations.
She is qualified as a lawyer in the UK, Ireland and Switzerland and an alumna of the University of Bern.
Maya Preiswerk
Meredith Kennedy
Michael O'Kane
Michael O’Kane is Senior Partner at Peters & Peters.
Michael was a senior specialist prosecutor at the Crown Prosecution Service Headquarters. There, he was a key member of a specialist unit responsible for the prosecution of serious and high-profile fraud, terrorist, state-security and special interest criminal matters, including the Stansted Airport Afghan airline hijacking and the prosecution of Paul Burrell (Princess Diana’s butler).
Since joining Peters & Peters, Michael has acted for companies, senior executives and HNW individuals in many of the most high-profile and complex national and international business crime cases. He has particular expertise in international corruption, criminal cartels, financial sanctions, INTERPOL, extradition and private prosecutions.
Michael is recommended by Chambers, Legal 500 and Who's Who Legal, and was recognised twice in The Lawyer’s Hot 100.
Michaela Schütz
Mona Fahmy
Mona Fahmy, COO at AC Assets Control AG is an expert in Economic Crime Investigations. While a former investigative journalist, she reported about white-collar and organized crime, as well as conflicts in the Middle East and Africa. Mona Fahmy has a MA from the University of Zurich in Economics, and attained a MAS in Economic Crime Investigation at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. She has been on the Board of the Swiss Expert Association “Economic Crime Investigation” since 2009. She teaches Open Source Intelligence at various institutes of higher education and has written books about money laundering and organized crime.
Nakhli Khoury
“Nakhli Khoury works as Healthcare Compliance lead for Switzerland and Austria at Bristol Myers Squibb. He is responsible for implementing the Compliance & Ethics program, including Implementing written polices & procedures, developing effective lines of communication, conducting effective training and education, enforcing standards/disciplinary guidelines, Conducting internal monitoring, due diligence, and auditing. since 2013 Nakhli held several compliance & Internal control monitoring roles at BMS with increasing responsibility across different markets in MEA and EU region.
Prior to joining BMS, Nakhli worked for Big4 consulting firms advising multi-national companies in the areas of internal audit, SOX 404, ERM, Fraud risk assessment, and as an Internal Auditor in a commercial Bank conducted audits in the areas of AML, Credit risks and operational risks.
Nakhli holds a BA degree in Business Administration and Accounting, he is a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified internal auditor CIA, a member of the AML working group of the Crypto Valley Association and multi-linguistic speaking 4 languages including Arabic and Hebrew.”
Dr Nora Bartos
Nora Zsofia Bartos works as Chief Export Control and Sanctions Officer at Roche. She is responsible for the strategic management and continuous improvement of Roche's economic sanctions compliance program, including export control and financial sanctions matters. In this role, she is responsible for developing global export control and sanctions compliance strategies, in close collaboration with the Group Compliance Officer.
She monitors relevant regulatory changes and ensures their adequate implementation in the Pharmaceuticals Division and in cross-divisional functions such as Finance, Treasury, Information Technology, Purchasing and Human Resources. This also includes determining appropriate organizational structures and related responsibilities, processes and procedures; providing guidance on approval requirements and coordinating approval requests globally; reviewing and approving and/or rejecting blocked business partners; managing interaction with embargoed territories; defining the annual training cycle of dedicated professionals around the world; and conducting the annual internal audit program in the field.
In addition, Nora represents the company before export control and sanctions regulators and committees. She lives in Basel, Switzerland.
Prior to joining Roche, Nora worked for Big4 consulting firms in Hungary, Romania and Switzerland in the areas of customs and international trade as well as taxation, and advised the automotive, FMCG, pharmaceutical and precision manufacturing industries.
Nora is a Hungarian lawyer and holds an LLM degree with a focus on tax law, including customs law, in addition to her BA degree in Business Administration from Middlesex University. She is a certified tax advisor and holds a license as a customs and excise declarant in Hungary.
Nora is a regular speaker at international trade and sanctions conferences and authors articles in printed and online journals on sanctions and international trade issues. She is also co-author of the IBFD publication on Global Trade and Customs and the new edition of Dual -Use Export Controls of the European Union, currently under editorial review at the publisher WorldECR, the journal of export controls and sanctions.
Neta Meidav
Nic Carrington
Nic Carrington is a Partner in Deloitte’s Financial Advisory practice in Switzerland. He specialises in forensic advisory, financial crime fraud and corruption investigations, advising on cases involving white collar crime and corruption, including FCPA-related matters, anti-money laundering compliance and investigations, procurement fraud, conflicts of interest issues and accounting irregularities. Nic is a Qualified Accountant and a Certified Fraud Examiner.
Paolo Basarri
Patrick Bont
Patrick Bont is the Chief Risk Officer of VP Bank. In his role he oversees the bank's risk, legal, and compliance functions.
Before joining VP Bank, he was Head of the Banking Division and FinTech Practice Leader at the Liechtenstein Financial Market Authority. He was also a member of the government workgroup drafting Liechtenstein's "Trusted Technology Law", also known as the "Blockchain Act".
Patrick holds a master's degree in law from the University of St. Gallen, an LL.M. from the University of Liechtenstein, and an Executive MBA in Digital Transformation from the University of Applied Sciences Chur.
Dr. Philipp Aeby
Dr. Philipp Aeby is the CEO and co-founder of RepRisk. He is an expert in business conduct risk management, with a special interest in machine learning.
Before joining RepRisk in 2006, Philipp served in various managerial positions across Europe at Amgen, a global biopharmaceutical firm, and worked on a broad range of international assignments with the Boston Consulting Group. He started his career as a visiting scientist at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture in Colombia.
Philipp holds a PhD in Environmental Physics and a Master’s degree in Climatology and Hydrology from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland, where he earned the ETH Medal for outstanding research that involved applying neural networks to pattern recognition.
Rafael Merencio
Raimund Roehrich
Raimund Röhrich, Global Head Financial Crime Compliance at Bank Julius Baer & Co. Ltd. Raimund has previously held various roles in Legal & Compliance in-house and in private practice, including at Clifford Chance and UBS AG. He has extensive experience across all areas of Financial Crime, having spent many years as a litigator as well as conducting internal investigations and reviewing and building Compliance Management Systems. His in-house roles included Compliance, Litigation, Investigation and Corporate Governance. He holds a teaching assignment at Steinbeis-University Berlin and is a regular lecturer at the University of St. Gallen.
Sandra Middel
Simone Nadelhofer
Simone Nadelhofer joined LALIVE in 2009 and is a partner in the Zurich office litigation team. She 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.
Simone Nadelhofer is ranked among the 100 Women in Investigations 2021 worldwide by Global Investigations Review. She is Corporate Counsel Forum 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). Simone is a regular speaker at conferences and publishes in her areas expertise. She recently co-authored the leading Swiss book on internal investigations published in 2022.
Before joining LALIVE, Simone Nadelhofer 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).
Simone Nadelhofer holds a PhD., summa cum laude, from the University of Lucerne, for which she was awarded the Professor Walter Hug prize and the Universitätsverein Lucerne prize in 2008. She also holds a Master of Advanced Studies in Economic Crime Investigation from Lucerne Business School (MAS ECI, 2007). She trained with a major law firm in Zurich (2001-2002) and graduated from the University of Freiburg in 1999 (lic. iur., bilingual, summa cum laude). She was a lecturer on Criminal Law at Lucerne University.
Stefania Butoi Varga
Stefania Varga is the Group Chief Compliance and Data Protection Officer at Landis+Gyr. Stefania leads the compliance and data protection management programs of the Group across 30+ jurisdictions where the company has a local presence, and is responsible for advising on compliance and data protection matters across all 100+ jurisdictions where the company operates. Stefania has been with Landis+Gyr in Switzerland since 2019. Previously, Stefania gained valuable experience in internal compliance matters while working in a mid-size law firm in Washington D.C. helping achieve justice for plaintiffs who had been subjected to workplace harassment, discrimination, retaliation, and violations of whistleblowing obligations.
Stefania is a lawyer in good standing of the New York State Bar, where she applied for admission following her studies at American University’s Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C. She is also a Certified Privacy Professional (CIPP/E and CIPM) since 2021.
Steve Young
Sven Millischer
Sven Millischer is Head of Open Source Intelligence at AC Assets Control AG. He brings with him a reputation for being an accomplished researcher. He is a specialist for OSINT Open Source Intelligence, having gathered valuable experience during the 20 years he worked as an investigative business journalist. He was part of the editorial staff at SRF, Ringier and CH Media. His last station before joining AC Assets Control was as a member of the editorial board at the Handelszeitung, the largest Swiss business publication. Sven Millischer earned a postgraduate degree at ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Business Administration, and a further MA at the University of Basel. He is a CFE Certified Fraud Examiner.
Tarana Baghirova
Timothy O'Toole
Ulina Bajraktaraj
Viviane Gehri
William Barry
William Barry is a trusted advisor to governments, boards of directors, foreign trustees, multinational companies and senior officers involved in cross-border business and the financial services industry. Mr. Barry helps solve complex problems involving multi-jurisdictional investigations, enforcement, compliance, and transactional issues so that his clients can overcome obstacles and resume focus on their business. He works with clients to address individual risks and to build credible, flexible and sustainable compliance infrastructure consistent with ESG standards.
Mr. Barry guides clients through the complex issues involved in responding to inquiries from domestic and international regulators regarding issues of accounting fraud, foreign bribery, money laundering, and other financial crimes. He represents clients faced with the challenge of responding to competing demands in parallel proceedings, such as internal reviews, government investigations, and private civil actions.
Chambers USA has described Mr. Barry as "the kind of person that everyone in the boardroom listens to" and noted he is "a very thorough thinker and very calm, and is the ideal ambassador for corporations when dealing with government agencies."
Mr. Barry is a member of the American Bar Association's International Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Committee and International Anti-Corruption Committee. He has been designated as a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist by ACAMS, the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists.
Mr. Barry is a member of the Sustainability Accounting Review Board (SASB) Alliance.
Mr. Barry is a member of the Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, and the former Chairman of Olney Boys & Girls Club, a non-profit sports association in Maryland.
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Miller & Chevalier
Website: https://www.millerchevalier.com/
Founded in 1920, Miller & Chevalier is a Washington, DC law firm with a global perspective and leading practices in Tax, International Law, Litigation, ERISA, White Collar Defense and Internal Investigations, Government Contracts, and Government Affairs. Miller & Chevalier is a top-ranked firm sharply focused on targeted areas that interact with the federal government. A significant number of firm lawyers have held senior positions in the U.S. government and have written many of the regulations they currently help clients navigate.
BDO
Website: https://www.bdo.co.uk/en-gb/home
BDO UK provides tax, audit and assurance, advisory and business outsourcing services to companies across all sectors of the economy. Our people are specialists in their respective fields and have a proactive, flexible approach to helping businesses overcome the challenges they face. We aim to be as innovative and entrepreneurial as the companies we work with, 95 per cent of whom say they would recommend us.
Consilio
Website: https://www.consilio.com/
Consilio is a global leader in eDiscovery, document review, risk management and legal consulting services. Through its Consilio Complete suite of capabilities, the company supports multinational law firms and corporations using innovative software, cost-effective managed services and deep legal and regulatory industry expertise. Consilio has extensive experience in litigation, internal and regulatory investigations, eDiscovery, document review, information governance, compliance risk assessments, cybersecurity, law department management, contracts management, legal analytics, paper discovery and digital printing, as well as legal recruiting and placement. The company operates offices, document review and data centres across Europe, Asia and North America. www.consilio.com
Deloitte
Website: https://www2.deloitte.com/uk/en/services/consulting.html
Deloitte consultants are renowned for their straightforward approach to solving some of the world’s largest and most complex business challenges. With access to a global network of over 3,000 management consultants – one of the largest networks of management consultancy expertise in the world - we offer our clients an exceptional depth of talent across countless disciplines.
Working hand-in-hand with leading organisations, governments and commercial bodies, our role is to unlock our client’s potential for growth and innovation. We commit to truly getting under the skin of their business needs, developing a full appreciation for their business environment, goals and ambitions. In so doing we form candid long-term relationships that allow us to operate together with our clients, as one team.
Dow Jones Risk & Compliance
Website: https://www.dowjones.com/professional/risk/
Dow Jones Risk & Compliance is a global provider of best-in-class risk data, web-based software applications and scalable due diligence services that help organizations manage risk and meet regulatory requirements related to financial crime, third-party risk management, sanctions and international trade. Built on the legacy of one of the world’s most trusted newsrooms, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance combines the expertise of a multilingual research team with industry-leading data scientists and technologists to provide actionable content structured specifically for compliance needs. Our solutions were developed in partnership with top legal and political advisors — including former regulators — to help our clients maintain consistency across global business units and teams.
Assets Control
Website: https://www.assets-control.com
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The Association of Governance Risk & Compliance
Website: https://agrc.org/
The Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) requirements are evolving at a pace that makes it challenging for professionals to follow and manage all aspects of this complex ecosystem.
Our vision is to connect the GRC community, enabling professionals and organisations to operate successfully and with integrity in a reliable and forward-looking way within a regulated environment. We envision a GRC sector that is more welcoming and appealing for new professionals.
Our values mark who we are as a global professional organisation. They define the way we collaborate and engage with our members, partners and civil society at large.
Association of Corporate Investigators
Website: https://my-aci.com/
Back in 2010 the heads of investigation for a number of Fortune 500 corporates assembled for an informal gathering in London to discuss areas of shared interest in corporate investigations.
What was unique about this group was the diverse range of industry sectors that were represented. They included oil and gas, financial, manufacturing, telecommunications, commodities, pharmaceuticals, logistics and agriculture. The group devised a constitution and became known as the Corporate Investigation Council (CIC). Membership was by invitation only and at its peak, twelve corporates were represented. Fast forward to 2016 and some members of the CIC identified there were further opportunities to engage beyond ‘Heads of Investigations’ to include all those involved in investigations at whatever level, and beyond the private sector.
Compliance Week
Website: https://www.complianceweek.com/
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Website: https://www.riskcompliance.biz/
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Website: https://www.ethics-compliance.ch/
Please visit our website for more information.APCC - Association of Professional Compliance Consultants
Website: https://apcc.org.uk/
The Association of Professional Compliance Consultants, or APCC, is the body for compliance consultants who advise firms regulated in the UK. The APCC is active in enhancing the professional standards of compliance consultants and is recognised as a trade body by the FCA and other regulators. This provides our members with significant benefits in terms of direct access to the Regulators as well as business leads. The APCC often works in conjunction with the FCA to pilot or test new initiatives, and we also provide with valuable feedback on specific subjects as requested by them. Members also benefits from our regular forums, technical briefings and interaction with other members. Members’ are listed on the APCC website Directory which can produce potential new business for them and publicly confirms their commitment to our professional standards. We also receive direct referrals from the FCA which often leads to new clients for our members.
Global Legal Group
Website: https://www.glgroup.co.uk/
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