Criminal Defense | Strafverteidigung
taormina
Practice
Our main area of expertise is criminal defense. We represent clients and advise on general criminal law, white collar criminal law, administrative criminal law as well as mutual legal assistance in criminal matters. We regularly act on behalf of and advise parties in complex white collar and administrative criminal cases.
Criminal Law
We represent and advise individuals in all areas of criminal law (such as homicides, assault charges, property offenses, crimes against the state and national security, crimes against official duty, crimes against the administration of justice), in ancillary criminal law areas (drug offenses, traffic offenses, etc.) and in police law.
White Collar Criminal Law
In white collar criminal cases, we regularly advise and represent company executives as well as cases in which the company is the accused party, has suffered damages or is otherwise involved in a criminal proceeding within the meaning of art. 105 of the Criminal Procedure Code. We have many years of experience in proceedings of sealing of evidence, document and data productions, seizure, forfeiture, compensation claims, and enforcement of compulsory measures in companies. In recent years we have demonstrated our expertise in a number of significant international money laundering and corruption cases.
Administrative Criminal Law
We regularly represent or advise our clients in criminal administrative cases relating to breaches of duty to report money laundering with the Federal Department of Finance, violations of the Financial Supervision Act in the banking sector, and in cases before the Federal Gaming Commission, the Federal Customs Administration and Swissmedic.
Mutual Legal Assistance
We support our clients in connection with requests for legal assistance from abroad as well as requests for legal assistance from Swiss authorities to foreign authorities. We have been involved in significant, sensitive cases in the area of mutual legal assistance in criminal matters with the United States of America, Israel, Russia, Venezuela and European countries.
Team
Careers
We set the highest standards for the quality of our work for our clients. Attorneys, trainees, assistants/paralegals are all equally committed to meeting these standards. We work closely together and are all dedicated to providing the very best service to our clients.
We are hiring. Please see our job opening for a lawyer.
If you are a talented, motivated and top-qualified person with a keen interest in criminal law, we look forward to receiving your application. taormina is an equal opportunity employer.