Charles Goumaz is a partner in Schellenberg Wittmer's Dispute Resolution Group in Geneva, practicing business crime, crisis and reputation management, as well as commercial litigation. He provides legal and strategic representation to high-profile individuals, corporate clients and financial institutions in sensitive, multi-jurisdictional matters, and has extensive experience in the commodity trading, shipping, transport and inspection, banking and finance, luxury and consumer goods, art and real estate sectors.
His practice covers the full range of business crime, including in particular fraud, misappropriation, criminal mismanagement, corruption, money laundering, bankruptcy offenses, forgery, extortion and cybercrime. He conducts internal investigations, acts in international mutual legal assistance and enforcement proceedings, and advises corporations and financial institutions on compliance and the prevention of financial crime.
Charles regularly acts for individuals and companies whose reputation, assets or operations are under attack. He conducts defamation proceedings, advises on cyberattack response, online reputation management and media strategy, and coordinates crisis response with parallel litigation.
In commercial litigation, Charles handles complex shareholder, post-M&A, contract, investment and trust disputes. He regularly obtains, or resists, interim measures such as the freezing of assets, including in support of foreign proceedings.
Charles is a Certified Specialist SBA (Swiss Bar Association) in Criminal Law.
