Forex & investment-fraud recovery
A Zurich law firm representing private and institutional clients in high-stakes financial litigation, forex and online-trading fraud, and international asset recovery, with the cross-jurisdictional reach these cases require.
Our three core practices
Each mandate is partner-led, with a coordinated team assembled to match the geography of the laundering chain. Choose the area that fits your matter.
International recovery for CFD, Forex, and crypto fraud schemes operated through offshore shells, manipulated trading platforms, and layered payment chains. Civil recovery coordinated with chargebacks and regulatory pressure.
Open practice pageAdvanced blockchain intelligence and asset tracing across wallets, exchanges, OTC brokers, and banking intermediaries. Court-ready forensic reports for civil and criminal proceedings.
Open practice pageGlobal legal action against online-trading fraud networks. We target platform operators, beneficial owners, payment intermediaries, and shell corporations in parallel forums, sequenced for maximum leverage.
Open practice pageInstitutional discipline
Financial-misconduct cases rarely resolve in a single forum. Regulators, insolvency practitioners, and criminal authorities may all be in motion. We design a clear hierarchy of objectives — preservation, liability, and recovery, and execute with precision.
“Clients come to us when the stakes are personal and the terrain is cross-border. Clarity and stamina matter as much as technical skill.” — Dr. Sebastian M. Dornfeld, Founding Partner
Switzerland remains a hub for international dispute resolution and financial services. Our office is a stable base for coordinating European proceedings while maintaining proximity to banking, arbitration, and forensic networks.
Forex & online trading. Allegations often span misleading performance advertising, aggressive retention tactics, conflicted liquidity routes, or failures in client categorisation and risk disclosure. We assess both private-law remedies and how supervisory interest may shape timing.
Investment fraud. Where offerings target retail investors at scale, civil and criminal frameworks may overlap. We help victims work through preservation steps, parallel tracks, and realistic recovery horizons, including scenarios involving liquidation or remission-style mechanisms abroad.
About the firmHow we work
Every mandate follows a structured five-step path, designed to preserve options, control cost exposure, and keep you informed at every junction.
Free 30-minute orientation call. No advice yet, but candid direction on whether action is realistic.
14-day evidence lock-down: account openings, payment trails, chat logs, terms, wallet hashes.
Written memo mapping civil, regulatory, criminal, chargeback, insolvency and tracing routes.
Filings, freezing applications, regulator letters, and chargebacks, parallel where additive, sequenced where not.
Judgment, settlement, or remission-disbursement. Clean accounting and closing memo.
Anonymised matters
Five illustrative engagements. Facts are paraphrased and identifiers removed; past outcomes are not predictive of future results.
A retail investor recovered a meaningful portion of a six-figure loss to a Cyprus-licensed CFD broker through coordinated civil claims and a CySEC complaint, within twelve months.
Private client · CFD broker · DACH
A retired professional recovered the card-rail portion of a low-seven-figure loss to a fraudulent "AI trading bot" via chargebacks under reason codes 4837 / 13.5, crypto-side recovery is ongoing.
Group of victims · Offshore bucket-shop · Pan-EU
A senior private client recovered substantial value after a Telegram-based romance-investment scheme, through emergency exchange-freeze requests and parallel criminal complaints.
Private client · Pig-butchering · CH/Asia
A family office secured priority-class admission in the foreign insolvency of a failed offshore broker, alongside a civil claim against the onshore introducer.
Family office · Offshore broker · EU/CH
A high-net-worth client obtained a judgment against an unregulated "copy-trading manager" with enforcement now in progress against property holdings.
HNW client · Copy-trading scam · UK/CH
Leadership
Senior attention on strategy; disciplined delegation on execution.
Founding Partner · Financial Litigation & Asset Recovery
Seasoned financial-litigation counsel with over twenty years acting for private and institutional clients in cross-border disputes, focused on investment fraud, forex-related misconduct, and international recovery. Dr. iur., University of Zurich; First State Examination, Germany.
Frequent questions
Detailed answers, including costs, timelines, and jurisdictional specifics, are on the FAQ page.
A 30-minute orientation call to listen, ask focused questions about the counterparty and the payment flows, and tell you candidly whether a recovery effort is realistic. No advice is given at this stage, and there is no obligation.
Most matters run from six to twenty-four months. Card chargebacks can resolve within weeks; civil actions take many months; criminal-restitution and victim-remission tracks abroad usually take longer. We sequence parallel routes where they help.
Yes, significantly. We map the actual operating entity, any onshore introducer, the regulator (if any), the payment processors, and the enforceable assets. Recovery is rarely from the offshore shell itself; it comes through chargebacks, blockchain tracing, criminal complaints, or claims against connected onshore entities.
No lawyer can ethically guarantee an outcome. What we commit to is rigorous feasibility analysis at the outset, transparent fee structures, and disciplined execution, so you can make informed decisions at every stage.
Hourly rates with capped phases, staged budgets, and, where jurisdiction permits and the case profile fits, alternative arrangements such as success-uplift fees. Swiss professional rules constrain pure contingency; we explain the constraints candidly.
Insights & guides
Plain-English guides on recovering money from forex, crypto, and investment fraud, written by the firm.
What to do in the first 72 hours, which recovery routes actually work, and how a lawyer runs chargebacks, civil claims and blockchain tracing in parallel.
Scam typesA practical guide to recognising the pig butchering pattern and the time-sensitive legal moves that can preserve a path to recovery.
How it worksA plain-English walkthrough of how stolen crypto is traced on-chain, how investigators find the exchange that can identify a fraudster, and what a tracing report can and cannot do.
Next step
Use our secure channel to outline your matter. We review conflicts and respond with a preliminary orientation without charge, without obligation.