Associate
Dr. Louis Frédéric Muskens
Geneva, Switzerland
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Associate
Dr. Louis Frédéric Muskens
Geneva, Switzerland
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Louis Frédéric Muskens specializes in criminal law with a focus on white-collar crime and administrative criminal law. He represents individuals and corporations in criminal proceedings before all Swiss authorities. His practice also covers commercial litigation and arbitration.
Louis Frédéric Muskens is a lecturer in criminal law at the University of Fribourg. He authored a PhD thesis on the status of legal persons in criminal law (for which he received the Peter-Jäggi and the Gottlob Awards) and regularly publishes and gives presentations in his main practice areas.
In 2016, Louis was awarded the Oral Advocacy Prize of the Geneva Bar Association (Concours Michel Nançoz).
- Representing a foreign financial institution in criminal proceedings for aggravated money laundering.
- Representing a foreign financial institution as private plaintiff in high-profile criminal proceedings for fraud, embezzlement, and forgery of documents.
- Assisting a former private banker in criminal proceedings for bribery and money laundering and in parallel civil proceedings.
- Defending a former bank CEO in large-scale criminal proceedings for aggravated money laundering.
- Defending a former bank employee in aggravated money laundering proceedings.
- Successfully representing a businessman in the commodities sector in withholding tax fraud proceedings before the Federal Supreme Court.
- Successfully assisting a client in complex civil attachment proceedings.
- Drafting legal opinions on issues pertaining, inter alia, to the Swiss Anti-Money Laundering Act, the Swiss Criminal Code, and the Swiss Criminal Procedure Code.
Career
- University of Fribourg: PhD in Law with a thesis on the status of legal entities in Swiss criminal law (2024)
- Bär & Karrer College, University of St. Gallen: CAS in Law & Management (2021)
- Associate at Bär & Karrer (since 2019)
- Lecturer in Criminal Law at the University of Fribourg (since 2018)
- Of Counsel at a Geneva law firm (2016-2019)
- Research and teaching assistant to Prof. tit. Christoph Winzeler in Banking and Financial Law (2016-2019)
- Research and teaching assistant to Prof. Dr. Marcel Alexander Niggli in Criminal Law and Jurisprudence (2016-2018)
- Admitted to the Geneva Bar (2016)
- Trainee at a Geneva law firm (2014-2016)
- University of Fribourg: Master in Law (2014)
- Undergraduate assistant to Prof. Dr. Marcel Alexander Niggli in Criminal Law and Jurisprudence (2012-2014)
- University of Fribourg: Bachelor of Law (2012)
Memberships
- Geneva Bar Association (OdAGE)
- Swiss Bar Association (SAV/FSA)
- Geneva Business Law Association (AGDA)
- English
- French
- German
