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Meet the Team: Forensic & Dispute Services

Deloitte Forensic & Dispute Services Switzerland maintains team offices in Zurich and Geneva.

If you wish to discuss any aspect of our service offering, please call or email the key contacts listed below for a direct response.

Chris Phillips, Partner - Head of Forensic & Dispute Services practice, Switzerland
Chris Phillips

Chris specialises in the provision of accounting and financial analysis skills in the resolution of large commercial problems and disputes, and in the conduct of major commercial investigations, mostly including fraud and manipulation of accounting records. He has been partner in charge on large scale regulatory investigations and compliance assignments in Switzerland, especially involving US tax issues, OFAC sanctions, AML/KYC, and FCPA. Recently Chris testified as an Expert Witness in a Zurich based international arbitration. 

Contact: Chris Phillips, +41 (0)58 279 61 73



Maxime Chrétien, Partner - Head of Forensic & Dispute Services practice, Suisse Romande
Maxime Chrétien

Maxime has over 10 years experience in fraud management, investigation and dispute in America, Europe, Africa and Switzerland. He is specialized in anticorruption, leading large FCPA investigations, and in preventing and managing fraud risks. He has a deep experience in the Retail & Consumer and Financial Services industries as well as not-for-profit sector. He is a finance engineer, French Chartered Accountant, Certified Fraud Examiner and Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialist and holds a degree in law.

Contact: Maxime Chrétien, +41 (0)58 279 80 64


David Fidan, Partner - Forensic & Dispute Services

David has more than sixteen years experience in auditing and advising financial institutions, and has led a large number of national and international economic crime and fraud investigations across the world. Recently, he has led major regulatory compliance reviews for Swiss financial institutions. At Deloitte David will work with the team to further build the financial services advisory team, working mainly on banking and insurance/reinsurance clients, and with Swiss and international regulators.  He will also take a lead role in the FATCA advisory business, assisting clients addressing this new US legislation.

Contact: David Fidan, +41 (0)58 279 67 50


Nico Van der Beken, Partner - Analytic & Forensic Technology
Nico Van der Beken

Nico is responsible for Analytic & Forensic Technology. He has spent the last 11 years focused on Forensic Technology Solutions and has advised on a wide range of business issues relating to anti-trust and anti-corruption investigations, electronic data analysis and forensic reviews. He is a guest lecturer at the University of St. Gallen (Financial Crime) and the Centro di Studi Bancari in Lugano (Compliance Management and Forensic Technology) on forensic technology.

Contact: Nico Van der Beken, +41 (0)58 279 64 48


John Biggart, Director - Disputes
Biggart John

John is a chartered accountant, with over 13 years experience in disputes and forensic investigations. He specialises in the quantification of damages and has worked in large scale litigation and international arbitration. His sector experience includes manufacturing, telecoms, consumer business and financial services. John worked for one year in the Enforcement Division of the Financial Services Authority in London.

Contact: John Biggart, +41 (0)58 279 64 58


Chris Shuttleworth, Director - Deloitte Analytics
Chris Shuttleworth

Chris advises on the use of analytic techniques and technologies to gain greater insights on business issues by discovering previously unobvious facts within electronic data sourced from across the organisation. He has over 15 years experience in the field of data management and analysis with the past 8 focused on using these techniques to support forensic activities including fraud investigations, FCPA investigations, regulatory disputes, electronic discovery and forensic due diligence to support M&A. 

Contact: Chris Shuttleworth, +41 (0)58 279 82 51

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