Dr. Joel Fischer
Dr. Joel Fischer co-heads Bär & Karrer’s internal investigations practice group and is a leading partner of the financial services team.
He has extensive experience in assisting global corporations and high-ranking executives. His work spans large-scale internal investigations and complex white-collar criminal and regulatory enforcement proceedings before Swiss and foreign authorities. His practice includes advising major companies, such as financial institutions, media conglomerates, and trading companies, on a wide range of compliance issues. This includes money laundering, sanctions, fraud, ESG, corruption, tax evasion and the implementation of compliance programmes.
Before his tenure at Bär & Karrer, Joel worked for the President of the Supreme Court of Israel and as a management consultant with a leading global consulting firm. He graduated from the University of Zurich and obtained a master’s degree in law and finance from the University of Oxford and a PhD from the University of Berne. He is a member of the editorial board of the leading Swiss periodical on corporate and capital markets law (GesKR).
Joel is listed as a Global Leader in investigations in the International Who’s Who Legal and won the Client Choice Award by Lexology in 2022 and 2024. In The Legal 500, Joel Fischer is listed as Next Generation Partner in Switzerland in Regulatory, Compliance and Investigations.
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