Counsel & senior associates
The wider team
Matters are staffed leanly with senior attention. Below are the colleagues who routinely support cross-border recovery mandates.
Dr. Elena Weiss
Partner · Regulatory & Banking
EU financial-services investigations, prudential interfaces, and defence-adjacent strategy in parallel regulatory tracks.
Karl Steiner
Senior Associate · Asset Tracing
Follow-the-money analysis, third-party disclosure, and coordination with forensic accountants in multi-jurisdictional tracing.
Marie-Claire Aubert
Counsel · Cross-Border Litigation
Forum selection, parallel proceedings, and enforcement strategy bridging common-law and continental procedures.
Dr. Weiss advises on the interaction between civil recovery and supervisory frameworks affecting credit institutions, brokers, and payment institutions. She structures regulatory-facing strategies where they support preservation or settlement leverage without waiving privilege.
Focus
- Banking conduct and internal investigations
- Market-abuse and disclosure angles in retail-harm cases
- Coordination with compliance officers and external auditors
- FINMA / BaFin facing strategy in financial-misconduct proceedings
Background
Previously with a European firm's financial-services regulatory practice; doctoral work on EU banking-resolution interfaces.
Mr. Steiner specialises in mapping asset trails through exchanges, payment processors, and shell entities. He supervises document-heavy phases of disclosure and works closely with external blockchain-analytics and forensic-accounting partners under partner oversight.
Focus
- Bank and crypto-exchange disclosure tactics
- Blockchain tracing and address-clustering analysis
- Provisional relief and evidence preservation
- Expert briefing on financial flows for litigation
Background
Trained in commercial litigation; secondment to a forensic consultancy focused on insolvency-related tracing.
Ms. Aubert manages jurisdictional complexity: parallel filings, anti-suit dynamics, and enforcement of judgments or awards across borders. She ensures procedural choices align with the client's recovery economics.
Focus
- Jurisdiction and forum challenges
- Arbitration alongside court relief
- Recognition and enforcement planning under Brussels-Ibis and Lugano
- Cross-border interim relief, Mareva injunctions, EAPO
Background
Prior practice in London and Geneva; extensive experience coordinating local counsel in EU and offshore centres.