Overcoming challenging conflicts requires ongoing engagement with all the different aspects, perspectives and interests involved in each individual case. Every action needs to take any potential effects into consideration. Both on a personal and legal level. This applies to trials, in the workplace and when dealing with the media.
Attorney at law Kim Mauerhofer, reason
Expertise
Reason is a law firm that has been specializing in criminal law and white-collar conflict, as well as media and cases involving politically exposed persons, for many years.
Reason focuses on three closely related areas:
Reason focuses on three closely related areas:
defense
Criminal defense
White-collar crime
White-collar crime
Reason advises individuals and companies in advance of possible official proceedings in white-collar crime and general crime. Reason defends individuals and companies in criminal trials at cantonal level, federal criminal level (Office of the Attorney General and the Federal Criminal Court) and before the Federal Supreme Court. Reason focuses on complex, multilingual and international criminal cases, including international mutual assistance in criminal matters. Reason is media-savvy and will bring in media experts if the situation calls for it. Reason is consulted by other law firms for its specialist knowledge. Reason advises individuals and companies on whistleblowing.
White-collar crime
International mutual assistance
General criminal law
Administrative criminal law
Whistleblowing
Individuals and companies
Second opinions
Support for law firms
investigations
Internal investigations
White-collar crime
White-collar crime
Reason supports teams of experts to carry out internal investigations into white-collar crime and workplace conflict, including whistleblowing. Companies or individuals receive advice and legal representation both before and during internal investigations. Reason’s specialized skills in criminal law enables us to anticipate specific issues in potential criminal proceedings and take these into account. Reason defends the client in a parallel or subsequent criminal trial. Based on the results obtained from the investigation as mandated, a selection of options along with recommendations on how to proceed are presented to the client.
Carried out with teams of experts
Legal advice
Legal representation
White-collar crime
General criminal law
Individuals and companies
Administration
Community
Second opinion
Support for law firms
coaching
Executive Coaching
Business Coaching
Business Coaching
At reason, coaching is a key element in criminal defense and legal advice in internal investigations. Reason’s coaching expertise is based on many years of experience in trials, is fully crisis-tested, and is also offered independently of criminal law. Reason’s approach is analytical and strategic, whilst also taking the personal situation into account. The people we support include professionals and executives, lawyers and legal practitioners who have professional, political and media challenges to overcome and those who are dealing with internal company or administrative crises. Reason is media-savvy and will bring in media experts if the situation calls for it.
Executive coaching
Business coaching
White-collar crime
Workplace
Individuals and companies
Administration
Community
Senior management
Entrepreneurs
Lawyers
Legal practitioners
Specialism
All three areas in which reason works are closely linked to each other. This works in our clients’ interests in each of these areas and is what really sets reason's services apart.
In the course of many years of practicing and specializing in challenging criminal matters, Kim Mauerhofer has gained in-depth legal and psychological knowledge. This tried and tested knowledge is essential in all three of reason's areas of practice.
About
Reason is a law firm led by Kim Mauerhofer that delves deeply into the needs of its clients and fully commits to pursuing the strategies they have developed together.
Kim Mauerhofer has had a particular interest in criminal law since the very start of her studies because it focuses on the individual.
After completing her judicial clerkship, as well as her attorney training in a law firm and at the public prosecutor's office (white-collar crime) Kim Mauerhofer worked as an attorney at the then Federal Office of Investigating Judges (federal level), before setting up her own practice in Zurich in 2011.
Kim Mauerhofer speaks German, English, French, Italian and Czech. She litigates in all German-speaking cantons. At the federal criminal level (Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland and Federal Criminal Court) and before the Federal Supreme Court, she conducts trials in German, as well as French, if the legal documents are accepted in German. If not, she will support her French-speaking colleagues in the background.
linkedIn jurata After completing her judicial clerkship, as well as her attorney training in a law firm and at the public prosecutor's office (white-collar crime) Kim Mauerhofer worked as an attorney at the then Federal Office of Investigating Judges (federal level), before setting up her own practice in Zurich in 2011.
Kim Mauerhofer speaks German, English, French, Italian and Czech. She litigates in all German-speaking cantons. At the federal criminal level (Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland and Federal Criminal Court) and before the Federal Supreme Court, she conducts trials in German, as well as French, if the legal documents are accepted in German. If not, she will support her French-speaking colleagues in the background.
Network
Reason is a fully independent law firm that is flexible and has a strong network.
Reason has built up a valuable network of proven experts in German-speaking and French-speaking Switzerland and internationally in areas such as criminal law and white-collar crime, internal investigations, company law, finance, banking, compliance, labor law, data forensics and media. Reason calls upon its network if the needs of the client require it. A team of experts can be set up on an ad hoc basis to deal with interdisciplinary challenges.
Kim Mauerhofer is registered in the Attorney Register of the Canton of Zurich. She is a member of the Zurich, Bern and Swiss Bar Associations, the Women's White Collar Defense Association, The Signals Network, the Criminal Defense Forum and the Criminal Defense On-Call Service.
Kim Mauerhofer is registered in the Attorney Register of the Canton of Zurich. She is a member of the Zurich, Bern and Swiss Bar Associations, the Women's White Collar Defense Association, The Signals Network, the Criminal Defense Forum and the Criminal Defense On-Call Service.
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Women’s White Collar Defense Association (WWCDA)
Kim Mauerhofer is a member of the Women’s White Collar Defense Association, a worldwide association of female experts specializing in white-collar criminal defense. Reason’s clients benefit from her international interaction with qualified professional colleagues on issues relating to other jurisdictions.
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The Signals Network
Kim Mauerhofer is the Swiss contact for whistleblowers with a connection to Switzerland through the international platform for the support of whistleblowers – The Signals Network. She also advises the persons concerned on an anonymous basis, prior to any potential whistleblowing and represents them in court if required.
Locations
Reason is represented by a centrally located law firm at each of the following locations:
the economic hub of Zurich, the Swiss capital of Bern, the headquarters of the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland (OAG), the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA), and the Swiss Federal Administration.
Reason litigates throughout German-speaking Switzerland, and before the Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona and the Federal Supreme Court in Lausanne. Clients can choose the location that is most suitable to them.
the economic hub of Zurich, the Swiss capital of Bern, the headquarters of the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland (OAG), the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA), and the Swiss Federal Administration.
Reason litigates throughout German-speaking Switzerland, and before the Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona and the Federal Supreme Court in Lausanne. Clients can choose the location that is most suitable to them.
Zurich office
Beethovenstrasse 47
8002 Zürich
8002 Zürich
Bern office
Marktgasse 35
3011 Bern
3011 Bern