Heute hat die Stimmbevölkerung der Einführung der OECD/ G20-Mindeststeuer in der Schweiz zugestimmt. Mittels einer Verfassungsänderung wurde die Grundlage geschaffen, Gewinne von Schweizer...

Insights from a recent panel discussion featuring Barbara Kux, a distinguished Swiss executive and management and supervisory board...

If a shareholder grants an unsubordinated loan to its company and the same later enters bankruptcy, the shareholder's claim for repayment of such loan ranks as equal with all other non-privileged and non-secured creditors.

Driven by the ideal of creditor protection, Switzerland introduced a solvency test for all companies in early 2023, in addition to the existing equity capital requirements.

Already on September 1st 2015 the Federal Act on Private Security Services Provided Abroad PSSA entered into force.

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The Canton of Zurich had for quite some time the practise to levy wealth taxes with start-up entrepreneurs based on the monies raised in one or more recent financing rounds.

The consultation on the introduction of a Swiss trust showed that there was currently no majority support for the introduction of such a legal institution.

Proper drafting of the articles of association of Swiss listed companies can improve the board's ability to resist activists with no meaningful economic exposure to the company.

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As covered by Swiss media, the State secretary of economic affairs (SECO) has denied an export of surveillance technology to Turkey.

A company under the law of the Principality of Liechtenstein entered in 1996 into a development and construction contract on a hotel and casino project in the West Bank.

In late April of this year, the British bank TSB moved millions of customer accounts from the systems of Lloyds Bank, which has hosted them since TSB was separated from Lloyds ...

The year 2018 has brought and brings about some alterations from an indirect tax perspective. Much has already been written and reported about it.

Already in 2021, the Swiss Supreme Court determined that the term of office for the board of directors of a Swiss corporation ends six months following the end of the relevant business year...

The decision removes legal uncertainty and will be helpful to structure and implement pre-pack and other asset disposal transactions under time pressure.

As trustees we are frequently confronted with arguments according to which keeping proper financial accounts would be expendable.

Distressed transactions have become common in the Swiss M&A landscape. An important piece in the Swiss restructuring toolbox is the sale of some or all of the business with the approval of the restructuring court during a composition moratorium (Nachlassstundung), a so-called pre-pack transaction.

The political response to the Credit Suisse collapse is increasingly focused on tightening capital requirements for systemically important banks.