Enforcement of English Freezing Orders ("Mareva Injunctions") in Switzerland

Within the framework of increasingly deregulated financial markets that operate more and more internationally, it has become progressively easier for debtors to dissipate and hide their assets, and thus to escape the consequences of judgments in civil and commercial matters. However, the jurisprudence in England has developed a striking and powerful counter-measure: the freezing order, formerly called, and still commonly known as, Mareva injunction. Since Europe has become one single judicial area where even provisional measures are mutually recognised and enforced, this jurisprudence is also of interest – indeed highly relevant – to other jurisdictions where frozen assets are situated. This book is aimed, on the one hand, at providing civil lawyers with an insight into the rather unfamiliar world of equity, equitable injunctions and, in particular, freezing orders. On the other hand, it analyses the procedures for, and means of, enforcing English freezing orders in civil law jurisdictions, with a particular focus on Switzerland.