As a result of the current coronavirus outbreak, many employees have been instructed by their employers to work from home in the so-called home office. In a previous legal update we published on our COVID-19 website on 27 March 2020 (Home Office Part I), we raised the issue and analysed whether working from home creates a permanent establishment for the business. Monfrini Bitton Klein sponsored Informa Connect`s Asset Recovery Americas conference, held virtually on May 27, 2021. Yves Klein gave a lecture on “Criminal investigations – do they help or hinder recovery?”. At the 16th IBA Anti-Corruption Conference on 12-13 June 2018, Yves Klein and Claire Daams presented the topics “How to recover assets but avoid direct confrontation with the corrupt politician” and “Self-disclosure and professional secrecy in the context of corruption investigations”. Monfrini Bitton Klein sponsored the conference dinner. In the latest edition of WWL “Data 2021”, the leading Swiss lawyers in the field of privacy and security have been listed. We are very pleased that Rolf Auf der Maur and David Rosenthal have been accepted. Yves Klein and Claire Daams chaired a panel on arbitration and corruption at the C5 Anti-Corruption Conference in Zurich from 19 to 21 March 2018. With them, Balz Gross, Homburger, Zurich, and Ravinder Thukral, Brown Rudnick LLP, London and Paris, discussed applicable legal and procedural principles, the collection and use of evidence, and the public interest versus the private interest.

In addition, she focuses on sales law with expertise in distribution and franchise law. She is recognized as an expert by the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center and is a member of the Swiss Franchising Association and has many years of experience in building Swiss franchises. It also deals with customs law. She regularly drafts and negotiates contracts and other documents in these areas of law. Monfrini Bitton Klein welcomes its new employee, Natalia Hidalgo. His areas of expertise are complex cross-border disputes, international asset recovery, white-collar criminal proceedings, recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards, and international legal assistance in civil, criminal and tax matters. His experience in banking law expands our team`s capacity in banking, financial and regulatory litigation. Natalia speaks French, English and Spanish.

Who`s Who Legal systematically identifies the best lawyers and experts based on thorough and independent research. Niederer Kraft Frey is regularly ranked Tier 1 by independent legal directories, and our lawyers are also ranked as a leader: David Bitton is ranked the national leader in defending business crime in Who`s Who Legal Switzerland 2021. The questions and answers provide a structured overview of the main practical issues related to the enforcement of arbitral awards in that country, including the legal framework; international conventions/agreements; the types of arbitrations that are enforceable/excluded; Application; challenge the application of the law; appeal or contestation at the seat of arbitration; effective enforcement; provisional measures and interest; and any proposals for reform. We are pleased to announce that Natalia Hidalgo has been promoted to Senior Partner. Natalia has been called to the Bar since 2018 and focuses on banking and financial disputes, international asset recovery, white-collar criminal proceedings, recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments, arbitration awards and insolvency orders as well as international legal assistance in civil, criminal and tax matters. At the IBA`s annual conference in Rome, Yves Klein co-moderated the show trial entitled The Briber`s Dilemma in Parallel Criminal, Arbitral and Civil Asset Recovery Proceedings, which took place at the Italian Supreme Court of Cassation and examined how the issues of circulation of evidence, professional secrecy and the privilege not to incriminate oneself in criminal cases are handled. Arbitration proceedings and civil asset recovery proceedings, in which the same persons are questioned for the same facts by an Italian criminal court, an ICSID arbitral tribunal and the English High Court. The judges of the Italian Supreme Court of Cassation, Pierluigi Di Stefano and Andrea Venegoni, served as judges and prosecutors general respectively in Italian criminal proceedings. Sir John Goldring, President of the Court of Appeal of the Cayman Islands, presided over the hearings in English and at ICSID. Yves Klein was ranked the most respected person in the practice of asset recovery by Who`s Who Legal: Switzerland in 2017. Our firm has two of the most named lawyers in our research. The “truly remarkable” Yves Klein is highlighted for his “incredible work” in the region.