Simone Nadelhofer

Partner, LALIVE

Simone Nadelhofer joined LALIVE in 2009 and is a partner based at the firm’s Zurich office. She specialises in white-collar crime and regulatory investigations and advises clients on crisis management, compliance and remedial action. She is regularly retained by corporate clients in cross-border investigations by Swiss and foreign authorities, including in the United States, and leads large-scale internal investigations. She assists clients in international legal and administrative assistance, and victims of crime in the tracing and freezing of assets, and advises on conducting investigations into harassment allegations (#MeToo), business and human rights and ESG-related disputes. Simone Nadelhofer regularly acts as counsel in complex commercial and banking disputes before state courts.

Simone Nadelhofer is ranked among the 100 Women in Investigations 2021 worldwide by Global Investigations Review. She is Corporate Counsel Forum Liaison Officer of the International Bar Association’s Business Crime Committee, chair of the Anti-Corruption and the Rule of Law Committee at the Inter Pacific Bar Association and a member of the advisory board of the Master Economic Crime Investigations studies at the Lucerne University. In January 2021, she was elected to the pool of presidents of the arbitration court of the Swiss Bar Association and Swiss Notaries Association. Simone Nadelhofer is a member of several professional associations, including Swiss Association of Experts in Economic Crime Investigation, Zurich and Swiss Bar Association and European Criminal Bar Association.

Before joining LALIVE, Simone Nadelhofer practised in Zurich as an attorney with renowned law firms, as a foreign attorney with an international law firm in New Delhi, India (2002–2003), and as legal counsel with a major Swiss bank (2001–2002).