SWITZERLAND
Friedrich Frank
Friedrich is partner at Jetzer Frank, a Swiss law firm specialized in white collar crime, administrative criminal law and criminal law. He passed the bar exams in Stuttgart/Germany and in Bern/Switzerland. He is admitted to all courts in Switzerland and Germany. Friedrich is specialized and has extensive experience in criminal law, in particular in white-collar crime, administrative criminal law, and international mutual legal assistance in criminal matters. He represents aggrieved parties as well as defendants, both individuals and legal entities. Furthermore, he provides legal and strategic advice.
Friedrich is chief editor of the leading commentary for administrative criminal law («Basler Kommentar VStrR») and regularly publishes in renowned Swiss and German lawjournals. In his blog www.verwaltungsstrafrecht.ch he comments the recent jurisprudence in administrative criminal law.
He provides counsel in fluent German and English.
Web: www.jetzer-frank.ch
Ludovic Tirelli
Ludovic is a founding partner at Penalex Avocats, a Swiss boutique law firm specialized in criminal law and focusing on all aspects and stages of criminal proceedings. Ludovic studied law at the University of Lausanne, where he competed a LLM in ICT Law, Crime and Security (2001) and a PhD in comparative criminal Law (2005). After some years of practice in an Office of investigating judges, he was admitted to the Bar in the Canton de Vaud in 2008. He also holds a MAS in Economic Crime Investigation (ECI) from the University of Applied Sciences of Neuchâtel (2015) and is a Certified Specialist SBA (Swiss Bar Association) in Criminal law (2018).
As a lawyer, Ludovic specializes in criminal law. He mostly focuses on white collar-crimes, field in which he has extensive experience, as well as criminal liability of corporations and international mutual legal assistance in criminal matters, including extradition. He represents plaintiffs as well as defendants, corporations and individuals, before all french and Italian speaking swiss courts and in federal criminal proceedings before the Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona. He also provides legal advice to governments and governmental organizations in legislative drafting and international mutual assistance matters.
As an academic, Ludovic teaches criminal law, business crime law, cybercrime law and criminal procedure at the University of Applied Sciences in Neuchâtel. He also lectures in the field of Narcotics Law, Road Traffic Offences and Juvenile Criminal Law at Unidistance, a major distance learning University program in Switzerland.
Ludovic is fluent in French, Italian and English. He also reads and speaks German and Spanish.
Web : https://www.penalex.ch/