{"id":284,"date":"2025-11-09T22:33:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T22:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/len.law\/your-attorneys\/stefan-lenz\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T16:19:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T16:19:35","slug":"stefan-lenz","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/len.law\/en\/your-attorneys\/stefan-lenz\/","title":{"rendered":"Stefan Lenz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull royal-group has-navtext-color has-secondary-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-3e2939c65255161ec757bc6d4f5f6890 has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--80);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-h-1-font-size\">Stefan Lenz<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I am Stefan Lenz, attorney at law and former federal prosecutor. I specialize in economic criminal law \u2013 particularly in combating international corruption and money laundering.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-h-3-font-size\">Attorney at Law \/ Former Federal Prosecutor and Inquiry Officer<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>From 2002 to 2016, as a federal prosecutor with the Swiss Office of the Attorney General, I led large and complex criminal investigations, particularly in the area of international corruption and money laundering. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In collaboration with other federal prosecutors and the Swiss Federal Criminal Police, I led extensive, cross-border proceedings. These included, among others, the successfully concluded cases against Alstom, a member of the Gaddafi family, as well as numerous investigations related to the Petrobras\/Odebrecht scandal in Brazil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After starting my own law practice, I worked part-time for the Federal Office of Transport conducting complex investigations in the area of subsidy fraud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-h-3-font-size\">Practice<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I now use my knowledge and experience for persons and institutions involved in economic crimes as accused parties or affected as victims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-h-3-font-size\">Network<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Throughout my career, I have built close contacts with leading prosecutors worldwide as well as with the investigative authorities of the World Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-light-background-color has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">CV Stefan Lenz, Attorney at Law, LL.M.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/len.law\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/7G2A8937-stefan-lenz-small-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list lined\">\n<li>Law studies at the University of Bern<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1989 Admission as a Swiss Attorney<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1989 bis 1994 Gerichtsschreiber am Obergericht des Kantons Bern in den Bereichen Zivil- und Strafrecht<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1994 to 2002 Self-employed attorney at law<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1999 to 2000 Postgraduate studies &#8220;International Economic Law&#8221; at the University of Zurich<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2002 Election as Deputy Federal Prosecutor<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2003 to 2005 Postgraduate studies &#8220;Combating Economic Crime&#8221; at the University of Lucerne<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2006 Promotion to Federal Prosecutor<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Until December 2016: Federal Prosecutor with focus on international corruption and money laundering<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Since 2017 Self-employed attorney at law<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2023 to 2024: Part-time as Head of Investigations for criminal proceedings at the Federal Office of Transport (in connection with complex cases of subsidy fraud)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--70)\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-h-3-font-size\">Memberships<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list lined\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sav-fsa.ch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bern and Swiss Bar Association<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seeci.ch\/de\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Swiss Expert Association for Combating Economic Crime<\/a> (SEBWK)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-h-3-font-size\">Languages<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>German, English, French<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading contact-title\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);font-style:normal;font-weight:200;text-transform:uppercase\">Contact<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20)\">\n<p class=\"iconized contact-address\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30)\">P.O. Box 324<br>CH-3000 Bern 13<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20)\">\n<p class=\"iconized contact-email\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30)\"><a href=\"mailto:info@len.law\">info@len.law<\/a><br><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stefan Lenz I am Stefan Lenz, attorney at law and former federal prosecutor. I specialize in economic criminal law \u2013 particularly in combating international corruption and money laundering. 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