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The entrepreneurial journey is full of surprises, and progressing "according to plan" can sound like an oxymoron. Nevertheless, a flexible plan helps founders anticipate potential scenarios rather than merely react to them.

The revised corporate law will enter into force and effect as of January 1, 2023.

As of this year, the Swiss "comply-or-explain" rules with respect to gender representation on boards of directors of large, listed companies apply.

The entrepreneurial journey is full of surprises, and progressing "according to plan" can sound like an oxymoron. Nevertheless, a flexible plan helps founders anticipate potential scenarios rather than merely react to them.

What are the most common types of private equity transactions in your jurisdiction?

As Swiss listed companies prepare for the upcoming AGM season, this edition of Advestra Insights presents the key changes in the 2026 voting guidelines of the three leading proxy advisors active in Switzerland, ISS...

On June 19, 2020, the "major" revision of the Swiss law on stock corporations (Company Law) was approved by the Swiss Parliament.

Revising Switzerland's company law was discussed for many years until, in June 2020, the Swiss parliament finally approved a comprehensive revision of the law.

The SIX Swiss Exchange Directive on Regular Reporting Obligations has been revised, effective as of 1 September 2024. SIX Exchange Regulation has published a Guideline on the revised Directive.

For visitors from 71 visa-exempt countries and regions, it has been very easy to travel to Japan as a tourist, as they have not had to apply for a short-stay...

Am 19. Juni 2020 wurde die «grosse» Aktienrechtsrevision vom Schweizer Parlament verabschiedet. Ziel der Aktienrechtsrevision war die Modernisierung des Schweizer Aktienrechtes.

A defense manual historically was meant to be primarily a toolkit for a listed company to address a situation of an unfriendly takeover.

The amendments to the Swiss Corporate Law (revCO) related to the shareholders' rights to participation, representation, information and inspection...

For acquisitions of enterprises and M&A transactions (e.g. share or asset deals), the key source of law is the Swiss Code of Obligations (CO). Since the provisions of the CO (e.g. in the sales law)...

Beaufsichtigte Finanzinstitute, die unter einheitlicher Leitung einer Unternehmensgruppe stehen, sind sich des Risikos einer faktischen...

Die Vorgeschichte des hier besprochenen Urteils ist breit bekannt und war auch bereits Gegenstand einer Publikation in dieser Zeitschrift.

On 19 June 2020 the Swiss parliament approved a bill introducing a new Swiss corporate law (Aktienrecht). The new Swiss corporate law is expected to come into force in 2023.

Switzerland is launching a central register of beneficial ownership under the Federal Act on the Transparency of Legal Entities (LETA), expected to take effect in the second half of 2026. With compliance deadlines measured in months rather than years, boards, shareholders and trustees face significant personal liability, fines up to CHF 500,000, and even company dissolution for non-compliance. The new regime replaces internal record-keeping with a federal register maintained by the Swiss Federal Office of J