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.

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 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).

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.

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.

Flavio de Souza

Floriana Scarlato

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.

Giuseppe Deleonardis

Joanne Fischlin

Kaisa Karvonen

Kees van Ophem

Livio Russo

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 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).

Maya Preiswerk

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Rafael Merencio

Sandra Middel

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.

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.

Timothy O'Toole

Viviane Gehri