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Julie
Venot
Associate
Geneva
Member of the Geneva Bar, admitted to the Paris Bar
+41 (0) 22 555 82 20
CV (English)
Expertise
Civil and commercial cross-border litigation
White-collar crime
Enforcement & Asset Recovery
Professional background
Associate at Archipel (Paris)
Associate at Lazareff Le Bars (Paris)
Trained with Lazareff Le Bars (Paris)
Trained with Teynier Pic (Paris)
Trained with Rasseck Bourgi (Paris)
Trained with Naval Group, legal department (Paris)
Education
University of Geneva – Master in Economic law
Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University – Master 2 in African laws
Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas University – Master 2 in Litigation, arbitration and alternative dispute resolution
Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas University – Master 2 in International economic relations
Languages
French
English
Spanish
Julie joined Archipel’s Geneva office in 2026, after practising for more than seven years at the Paris office.

She specialises in complex cross-border disputes, involving civil and white-collar crime proceedings.

She also specializes in asset tracing and recovery as well as recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards relation to international fraud (search for hidden assets, search for evidence, paulian actions, piercing of the corporate veil) and against sovereign States (enforcement measures against Sovereign States assets, alter egos).

This practice has led her to work in various areas of French and Swiss law (contract law, civil liability, company law, public law), international public and private law, European law and foreign laws (customs certificates/affidavits, follow-up of proceedings initiated in other jurisdictions).
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Details of recent activities
Counsel to an Asian sovereign wealth fund in criminal proceedings relating to an international misappropriation of funds by various individuals

Counsel to a Middle East bank in the enforcement of a foreign judgment and recovery of Swiss-located assets

Counsel to a creditor in civil and criminal proceedings relating to a misappropriation of funds by a fraudster

Counsel to a large multinational company to recover Swiss-located assets in a large-scale fraud involving misappropriation in several jurisdictions

Counsel to the spouse of a high net worth individual in view of the enforcement in France of an English divorce judgment on assets located in France

Counsel to a former employee of the US embassy in Paris to enforce a judgment over wrongful termination of contract

Counsel to an Asian Sovereign State to resist enforcement of PCA arbitral award issued in favour of high net worth individual based in sanctioned country

Counsel to European investors in the enforcement in France of an ICSID arbitral award against an African state

Counsel to North American creditors/investment funds on the worldwide recognition and enforcement of a North American judgment against a South American state
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