The Legal 500

Legal Developments in Switzerland

• The Enforceable Public Instrument

  1. Introduction On the 1st of January 2011 the new Swiss Code of Civil Procedure entered into force. Among other things, it introduces a new remedy, referred to as an «enforceable public instrument»
  - Staiger, Schwald & Partner

• Trends 2012 in media and technology law

  Michel Jaccard (TMT|IP, Corporate) lists in the Bilan magazine the 10 challenges in 2012 for the media and technology industries.
  - BCCC Attorneys-at-law LLC

• MIFID II and “European passport” for Swiss financial service providers: from dream to reality?

  The European Commission adopted on October 20 its draft proposal for a Directive on markets in financial instruments (MIFID II) repealing Directive 2004/39/EC, which surprisingly remained almost uncommented in Switzerland so far.
  - BCCC Attorneys-at-law LLC

• The Revision of the Unfair Competition Act

  The Revision of the Unfair Competition Act increases the requirements for general terms and conditions for contracts with consumers as of July 2012 and introduces specific disclosure obligations in e-commerce as of April 2012.
  - Walder Wyss Ltd

• GOING PUBLIC ON SIX SWISS EXCHANGE

  Foreword Switzerland and its Financial Market
  - Bär & Karrer

• Swiss Capital Markets Law

  Securities
  - Bär & Karrer

• Trusts in the context of Swiss divorce proceedings

  TinaWu« stemann* and Delphine Pannatier Kesslery
  - Bär & Karrer

• A Safe Haven

  Though the Swiss economy appeared to come out of the economic crisis relatively unscathed, it’s not all plain sailing, says Baer & Karrer’s Eric Stupp.
  - Bär & Karrer

• New tax regulation to stimulate the Swiss bond market

  The Swiss domestic bond market virtually died after the Swiss federal stamp tax act came into force back in 1973. Swiss insurance stamp tax must be paid on the insurance bonds by, among others, a Swiss-resident company or the Swiss-registered branch of a foreign resident company.
  - Walder Wyss Ltd

• Switzerland’s new information exchange policy and new Protocol to DTAA India-Switzerland

  1. Reasons to revise Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) 2. Status of new Protocol to DTAA 3. Application of new Protocol to DTAA 4. Development of Swiss policy of tax information exchange
  - Walder Wyss Ltd