Associate

Dr. Louis Frédéric Muskens

About

Louis Frédéric Muskens specializes in criminal law, with a focus on white-collar crime and administrative criminal law. He represents both individuals and corporations in criminal proceedings before all Swiss authorities. His practice also extends to commercial litigation and arbitration.

Louis Frédéric Muskens is involved in academic activities, being a lecturer in criminal law at the University of Fribourg. He authored a PhD thesis on the status of legal persons in criminal law (awarded the Peter-Jäggi-Prize) and regularly publishes and gives presentations in his main practice areas.

In 2016, Louis Frédéric Muskens was awarded the Oral Advocacy Prize of the Geneva Bar Association (Concours Michel Nançoz).

Recent Work Highlights
  • 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.
LanguagesFrench, German, English
Curriculum
  • University of Fribourg: PhD in Law with a thesis on the status of legal persons in Swiss criminal proceedings (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 and Public Offices
  • Geneva Bar Association (ODAGE)
  • Swiss Bar Association (SAV/FSA)
  • Geneva Business Law Association (AGDA)
AdmissionAll Swiss Courts

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Contact

Louis Frédéric Muskens
P: +41 58 261 57 64

Bär & Karrer Ltd.
12, quai de la Poste
CH-1211 Geneva 3
Switzerland

Bär & Karrer Ltd.
Brandschenkestrasse 90
CH-8002 Zurich
Switzerland

Assistant
Sandrine Souvannavong-Rolet
P: +41 58 261 57 45

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