Claudia is the founder and managing director of ENQUIRE. She advises clients on the design and implementation of effective investigation and whistleblowing programmes. She also conducts internal and regulatory investigations on behalf of corporates, other organisations (e.g. associations, educational institutions, foundations, SROs) or government agencies. In doing so, she can rely on a wealth of experience ranging from the investigation of criminal and supervisory misconduct to organisational deficiencies and workplace conflicts (e.g. discrimination, mobbing, harassment). Her time as the Head of FINMA's General Counsel's Office during and after the financial crisis, which prompted numerous investigations against Swiss financial institutions, was a particularly formative experience. Since then, complex investigations, financial market law enforcement and issues relating to cooperation with domestic and foreign authorities belong to her main areas of expertise. After seven years with the regulator, Claudia returned to the private sector in 2013/14 with a first-class network.

Claudia is an attorney-at-law with an LL.M. degree from the National University of Singapore. She wrote her dissertation on the topic of Corporate Internal Investigations in Switzerland. The handbook, which is based on her thesis, has established itself as a standard work of reference in Switzerland. In addition to her work as an attorney, Claudia is responsible for a module of the CAS course "Compliance in Financial Services" at the University of St. Gallen and regularly speaks on regulatory as well as compliance-related topics.

Urs is an attorney-at-law and of-counsel at ENQUIRE. He is also an independent expert in financial market regulation and supervision. Prior to a three-year mandate as Head Client Tax Policy at Credit Suisse, he spent 30 years as a supervisor with the Swiss Federal Banking Commission (SFBC) and subsequently the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA). As long-standing General Counsel at Executive Board level, he was responsible for the enforcement activities of SFBC and FINMA for 15 years. Together with his teams he worked on complex cases in Switzerland and abroad, such as the debate over the Holocaust deposits with Swiss banks, the investigations into the wealth of Mobutu, Abacha and Montesinos, or the procedures and negotiations relating to untaxed assets deposited with Swiss financial institutions. Urs is honorary professor at the University of Geneva and Cornell Law School (Ithaca NY), where he lectures on Swiss and international financial market regulation and enforcement. He is the study director of the CAS Financial Regulation of the Universities of Geneva/Bern and the CAS Compliance in Financial Services at the University of St. Gallen. He completed his dissertation on the due diligence obligations of banks under Swiss public law in 1994. In addition, he regularly publishes and gives speeches on financial market law issues.

Peter is a registered attorney-at-law with the Zurich and the Swiss Bar. He has around 15 years of experience in litigation, investigations as well as employment law, his main focus being on whistleblowing matters in recent years. After his legal clerkship with the District Court of Horgen (Canton of Zurich), he practised with one of Switzerland’s top tier corporate law firms, providing legal advice and litigating employment matters as well as commercial disputes for large Swiss and international corporate clients. With the counsel and in-court experience gained as a practising attorney, Peter transitioned into an in-house counsel role with one of Switzerland’s largest banks. As a Litigation and Regulatory Lawyer in Zurich, he coordinated and supervised litigation matters and conducted complex internal investigations, including whistleblowing and cross-border investigations. When presented with the opportunity, Peter transferred within the bank to the United States where he conducted investigations into sales related misconduct within the wealth management division as well as complex whistleblowing investigations in various divisions. In his role as an internal investigator with the bank in the United States, he gained invaluable experience in the US legal and regulatory environment and was able to further broaden his knowledge and skills around investigations, in particular whistleblowing investigations. After two years, Peter was promoted into the role of the Head of Whistleblowing Matters for the Americas where he managed the whistleblowing portfolio for the region, which allowed him to further strengthen his subject matter expertise in this area. At ENQUIRE, Peter is focussing on providing guidance in whistleblowing matters and conducting whistleblowing as well as other types of investigations. Peter earned his law degrees from the University of Zurich (Lic. iur.) and from the University of Virginia (LL.M.). While enrolled at the University of Zurich, he also studied at the Universidad Pública de Navarra (UPNA) in Spain for one year.

Coleen Critchley is a Senior Legal Counsel at ENQUIRE. She uses her broad legal know-how and prac-tical experience in complex investigation projects, which often focus on financial market issues (such as combating money laundering, corporate governance, conflicts of interest, client tax compliance) and white-collar crime (corruption, fraud, etc.). Prior to joining ENQUIRE, Coleen gained invaluable professional experience working for 15 years in different areas of the Legal & Compliance departments of a major Swiss bank (both in Switzerland and the UK). Coleen namely is a client tax compliance subject matter expert, an area in which she built up and co-lead a global advisory team to advise local compliance departments as well as the Business on the bank’s client tax compliance framework (this particularly included global policy own-ership, training and advice on complex client tax matters). Due to her vast experience as an inhouse senior legal and compliance officer, she is intimately familiar with banking processes and the chal-lenges that financial institutions face in their day-to-day business. Before joining the bank, Coleen worked in a law firm in Zurich that focused on general commercial and corporate law as well as banking and securities exchange law. Coleen independently dealt with a broad range of legal matters which included the drafting of contracts, legal opinions as well as legal actions in court. Coleen is a dual qualified lawyer; she is a registered attorney-at-law with the Zurich and the Swiss Bar as well as admitted to the roll of solicitors of England and Wales (currently not practising).

Suzanna is an Investigative Lawyer at ENQUIRE where her focus is on internal and regulatory investigations, whistleblowing and compliance-related questions. Prior to joining ENQUIRE, Suzanna gained valuable professional experience working as a Legal Counsel for a Swiss Private Bank in areas such as cross-border banking and external asset management where she advised the Business on a number of legal and compliance related matters. As part of her CAS Inhouse Counsel studies, she also gained knowledge on several IT-topics, compliance and risk management, corporate governance, data protection and other legal topics. Due to several years as a law clerk at a district court in the Canton of Zurich, Suzanna has profound knowledge and broad experience in litigation and criminal and civil law matters.

Tania Kabir is a Junior Legal Researcher with ENQUIRE and a law student at the University of Zurich. She gained her first professional experience working vacation jobs in the patent department of Ems Chemie and the accounting department of the Conradi bookstore, among others. Upon graduation from high school in Grisons, she started law school and has since also worked part-time for the Europa Institut at the University of Zurich hosting legal seminars.

Michael has managed ENQUIRE’s finances and back office since the firm’s inception. As a Chartered Expert in Financial and Managerial Accounting and Reporting, Michael has more than 25 years of professional experience in supporting small to medium-sized enterprises on topics such as personnel administration, invoicing, accounting, annual financial statements, balance sheet analysis, business evaluations, succession planning and tax.