ACi Immersive Investigations Workshop, Zurich

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 and best practice 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), a member of the International Bar Association (IBA) and of the International Association of Independent Corporate Monitors (IAICM). Daniel L. Bühr is also a member of the Swiss Association for Standardization and Co-Chair of the Standards Committee 207 (Governance of Organizations) and a member of the Expert Committee on Compliance Management Systems of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). He is an accredited ISO Compliance Management System Auditor and co-founder and 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, developing and industrializing a fashion accessory (2004–2007) and served as Company Secretary and Legal Counsel of a global retail group in Zug, Switzerland (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).

Torsten Wolf leads Control Risks’ forensics practice in Germany. Based in Frankfurt, Torsten has over 13 years’ professional experience in planning and executing small- to large-scale projects, according to standards such as FCPA, UK Bribery Act or German competition and anti-corruption laws.

Simone Nadelhofer joined LALIVE in 2009 and is a partner based in our Zurich office. She specialises in white collar crime and regulatory investigations and advises clients on crisis management, compliance and remedial action. She is regularly retained by corporate clients in cross-border investigations by Swiss and foreign authorities, including U.S. authorities and leads large-scale internal investigations. She also assists clients in international legal and administrative assistance, as well as victims of crime in tracing and freezing of assets. Simone Nadelhofer regularly acts as counsel in complex commercial and banking disputes before state courts. Simone Nadelhofer is a member of several professional associations, including the Swiss Association of Experts in Economic Crime Investigation, the Zurich and Swiss Bar Association and the European Criminal Bar Association (ECBA). She is Regional Representative Europe of the IBA’s Business Crime Committee, 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. Furthermore, Simone Nadelhofer acts as the external ombudsperson for tesa SE. 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). She regularly publishes and speaks at conferences on her areas of specialisation. 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.

Matthias Gstoehl joined LALIVE in 2017. He specialises in complex, often multi-jurisdictional, proceedings, including asset recovery, fraud and white collar crime, recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments and awards, international mutual assistance, FINMA enforcement proceedings and bank insolvency. Matthias Gstoehl’s activity strongly focuses on banking and finance disputes. With first-hand experience in the financial sector, he handles complex cases requiring specialist knowledge in derivative instruments, hedge funds and other financial products. He also regularly acts for clients in contentious corporate, commercial and private client matters (primarily successions and trusts). Matthias Gstoehl is a member of the Zurich Bar Association (ZAV), the Swiss Bar Association (SAV), the International Bar Association (IBA), the Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA), the International Association of Young Lawyers (AIJA) and the International Association of Restructuring, Insolvency & Bankruptcy Professionals (INSOL). 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).

David Wolfe is a Manager, Investigations within the Office of the Inspector General of The Global Fund to Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Based in Geneva, Switzerland, he is a seasoned financial investigator and forensic accountant with extensive international expertise in conducting and leading complex and high profile financial fraud, procurement and corruption investigations, forensic audits, and risk assessments. David also has advised organisations on anti-fraud programs and has contributed to the development and implementation of the Global Fund’s “I Speak Out Now” fraud awareness initiative. Over his career, he has led high-profile investigations in over 35 countries involving hundreds of millions of dollars of losses and severe programmatic impacts including the United Nation’s Iraq Oil for Food Program and WorldCom investigations. Co-creator of the Fraud Diamond theoretical framework, a Certified Public Accountant and Certified in Financial Forensics, David is an author and frequent speaker and instructor on topics of his expertise.

Chris is an Investigations Manager at the Global Fund in Geneva, Switzerland. He has over 20 years’ experience leading teams conducting criminal and administrative investigations with law enforcement and in the corporate and international spheres. He started his career in the National Investigation Service of UK Customs conducing criminal investigations of serious and organized crime. This culminated in a diplomatic posting to Colombia mentoring local investigation teams. He then made the leap to corporate sector, where he led fraud investigations and delivered training programs to clients in the UK and overseas for Deloitte’s London Forensic practice. While with Deloitte, Chris was also a lead facilitator for its in-house investigations training. Since joining the Global Fund, he has managed over 100 investigations into allegations of various types of wrongdoing. He has also continued to develop and deliver training internally and to peer agencies. Chris has a BSc in Counter Fraud Studies.