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Michele Caratsch
Switzerland
Law Firm, City

Baldi & Caratsch, Zurich
Baldi & Caratsch is a Swiss litigation boutique with offices in Zurich. The firm has been involved in various major fraud disputes and supported other FraudNet members in transnational cases, including the freezing of assets concealed on Swiss bank accounts, assistance in international legal assistance matters and recovery proceedings, institution of local criminal proceedings in aid of a request for tracing concealed assets or a money laundering investigation, recognition of foreign bankruptcy proceedings and of foreign interlocutory measures in Switzerland.

Michele Caratsch holds a law degree of the University of Zurich and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) of New York University. He was admitted to the Zurich Bar in 1991 and to the New York Bar in 1995.

He heads the litigation team of B&C, and specialises in complex commercial litigation and arbitration, with a particular focus on fraud and asset recovery. Michele Caratsch represented clients in several court proceedings, coordinated transnational fraud recovery proceedings in various jurisdictions which involved asset tracing and obtainance of freezing orders in multiple jurisdictions and advised foreign state bodies in formulating requests for mutual assistance directed to Switzerland. He speaks German, Italian and English and is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese.

mcaratsch@bclaw.ch

www.bclaw.ch

Address

Zeltweg 44 8032 Zurich,
Switzerland

Telephone

+41 44 250 2525

Languages

German, English, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese

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Tobias Schaffner

Switzerland
Baldi & Caratsch, Zurich

Baldi & Caratsch, Zurich
Tobias is a partner at Baldi & Caratsch, a Zurich-based law firm specialised in asset tracing & recovery. He represents victims of economic crimes in civil courts, bankruptcy proceedings and criminal proceedings in Switzerland. His areas of practice include International commercial litigation, fraud litigation and asset recovery, international arbitration (commercial and investment arbitration), commercial law, administrative law proceedings before federal authorities in the finance sector, debt collection and bankruptcy law.

Tobias is a member of the Zurich Bar Association; Swiss Bar Association; Founder and Co-Director of Private Claimants Network PCN, a network of Swiss attorneys aiming to strengthen the legal representation of victims of crime in criminal proceedings, the Swiss Arbitration Association - ASA Below 40; and the Young Austrian Arbitration Practitioners (YAAP).

He has a practice diploma from the Austrian Arbitration Academy and VIAC, studied at the University of Geneva, and the University of Cambridge, where he was awarded the Yorke Prize, an award endowed in 1873 by Edmund Yorke, Scholar, and Fellow of St Catherine's College. The Prize is awarded annually by the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge for a doctoral thesis of “exceptional quality”, “which makes a substantial contribution to a field of legal knowledge”.