Valentina Gilberti
Dr. Osman Saçarçelik
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.
Lucie Tickner
As the Technical Knowledge Manager for Responsible Sourcing, in Track Record Global’s ESG Insights and Technical Knowledge team, Lucie is an expert on timber supply chain due diligence. She holds an MSc in Sustainable Development.
Lucie’s expertise supports TRG’s European, UK and US timber clients on risk mitigation in their timber supply chains. Within TRG, Lucie owns and refines the suite of protocols used by assessors to deliver the due diligence on behalf of clients, across both regulatory requirements and clients’ corporate policies.
Over the past 18 months, a major focus for Lucie has been ensuring ‘EUDR readiness’ on behalf of TRG and those clients and suppliers to whom the new regulation applies. EUDR remains at the forefront of her activities; the potential 12-month delay to EUDR implementation to December 2025 has not lessened the need for operators and service providers to engage now with its more stringent requirements, especially around geo coordinate provision, to ensure a seamless and penalty-free transition to live when that time comes. Part of her activities will be around refinement of TRG protocols to reflect the EU’s risk categorisation of countries of production. Lucie is also engaged in building out protocols and guidelines for non-timber commodities under EUDR.
Genevra Forwood
