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The distinction between "private wealth administration" and "self employment" is crucial for the tax consequences on capital gains realized by Swiss sellers in M&A deals.

This blog series gives a short and compact overview on the essential elements of Swiss contract law.

Commercial mediation on the rise? - Yes, I think this is correct. I see this not only in my own practice, but also hear it from various colleagues.

The plaintiff (the "Employee") was a managing director of a large Swiss bank (the "Bank"). In mid 2009, he resigned from his position to join another financial establishment.

In a landmark decision (4A_361/2024, 4A_363/2024, 18 June 2025), published on 12 August 2025, the Swiss Federal Supreme Court ruled against a bank...

The write-off of the Credit Suisse AT1 bonds remains one of the most controversial chapters in Switzerland's recent financial and regulatory history. The debate has recently been given new impetus by three decisions...

The employee has been working fulltime at a bank as a director since 1 November 2010. His most recent gross monthly salary was CHF 20,000. On 29 August 2019, the company's internal ombudswoman...

Arbitration practitioners, both counsel and arbitrators, are ever conscious that their best laid plans to protect the privacy and confidentiality of an arbitration may be thwarted if a question in relation to the arbitration lands before a State court, the rules of which will often require the publication of aspects of the arbitration, such as its existence, the identity of the parties, and the facts underlying the matter in dispute.

On August 29, 2006, for the first time the Swiss Supreme Court granted revision of an international arbitral award. The Court’s acceptance of an action for revision results in the annulment of the award and a direction to the arbitral tribunal to issue a new award taking into account newly discovered facts or evidence identified by the Supreme Court as being susceptible of changing the result of the original award.

As of 1 June 2021 the Swiss Chambers' Arbitration Institution (SCAI) becomes the Swiss Arbitration Centre, administering proceedings under revised Swiss Rules of International Arbitration.

In decision 4A_305/2025 of 13 March 2026, the Swiss Federal Supreme Court held that Swiss sanctions against Russia are overriding mandatory law and apply irrespective of the otherwise applicable law. The Court reasoned that the Swiss Ukraine Ordinance serves Switzerland’s core foreign-policy objectives and therefore applies as overriding mandatory law.

The organisation is governed by cantonal law (article 3 et seq of the Swiss Civil Procedure Code (CPC)). Generally, each canton has a conciliation authority and a first and second instance court.

Videoconferences are nowadays widely used for the examination of parties, witnesses and experts in cross-border civil proceedings.

Cash pooling, which allows companies to combine their credit and debit positions from various accounts into one account, has become common for multinational groups in the business world of today.

The Federal Tribunal of Switzerland, the country's highest court, recently dispelled the uncertainty that hung around the question of costs in connection with the precautionary taking of evidence.

Switzerland is a civil law jurisdiction. Accordingly, the primary sources of legal authority are written codes and statutes, whereas case law is of less importance than in common law jurisdictions.

In a recent landmark decision (5A_114/2025 of 13 January 2026), the Swiss Federal Supreme Court has resolved two long‑disputed questions of international lis pendens under Article 9(2)...