Profile: Paul Gully-Hart
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Law Firm: | Schellenberg Wittmer |
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| Office: |
Schellenberg Wittmer 15bis, rue des Alpes PO Box 2088 CH-1211 |
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| City: | Geneva 1 | |
| Country: | Switzerland | |
| Tel: | +41 22 707 8000 | |
| Fax: | +41 22 707 8001 | |
| Email: | paul.gully-hart@swlegal.ch |
Business Crime
Biography: Business Crime
Paul Gully-Hart is a partner in the litigation department of Schellenberg Wittmer. He practises in the areas of complex commercial litigation, white-collar crime (with an emphasis on international mutual assistance and on the tracing/seizure of assets) as well as compliance and regulatory law. Born in London, England on 22 March 1956, Mr Gully-Hart graduated from the University of Geneva in 1977. He was admitted to the Geneva Bar in 1980. He is fluent in English, French, Italian and German, and is literate in Spanish. Mr Gully-Hart is a former chairman of Committee W (Business Crime) in the Section of Business Law of the International Bar Association and continues to be active in this organisation. He speaks regularly at international conferences and seminars and has also published extensively on a range of legal issues within his professional expertise.Schellenberg Witter is one of the leading business law firms in Switzerland, with offices in Zurich and Geneva offering the expertise and specialisation of more than 100 lawyers. It is a major full-service business law firm with a large international practice that advises and represents Swiss and international clients in matters of dispute resolution, corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, banking and finance, tax law as well as private capital and estate planning.
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Corruption in the Private Sector: The Growing Importance of Legislation Designed to Combat Private Corruption
Traditionally, criminal sanctions were reserved for corruption of public officials based on the assumption that the state should intervene where public funds or public duties are at stake. Therefore, corruption in the private sector was originally dealt with by means of civil remedies and self-regulation. In other words, the criminalisation of private bribery is a recent phenomenon the importance of which has been rapidly growing in the last years.
Are foreign agents allowed to operate in Switzerland?
In the course of international mutual assistance proceedings, Switzerland may be requested by a foreign authority to allow an infiltrated agent to act on its territory.