Switzerland is home to approximately 250 banks with an aggregate balance sheet of about CHF3.23 trillion ($3.25 trillion).

Reinsurance practice often involves international contractual relations. Issues that regularly arise in reinsurance litigation relate to the place of jurisdiction and the applicable law.

Prager Dreifuss lawyers discuss how the Global Forum Act targets beneficial ownership transparency.

As a rule, attachment proceedings initiated by a creditor in Switzerland based on a court or arbitral decision are quite straightforward.

Daniel Hayek, Christina Meyer and Chantal Joris of Prager Dreifuss examine the revised Swiss insolvency law and its implications for debtors and creditors.

Swiss restructuring and insolvency proceedings are mainly governed by the Swiss Debt Enforcement and Bankruptcy Law (DEBA), which entered into force in 1892.

Article on the development of jurisprudence in Switzerland with regard to multi-tiered dispute resolution clauses.

Das Bundesgericht hat in seinem Urteil vom 28. Juni 2016 Funktion und Inhalt des Kriteriums der Erheblichkeit in Art. 5 Abs. 1 KG geklärt:

As a rule, attachment proceedings initiated by a creditor in Switzerland based on a court or arbitral decision are quite straightforward.

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.

On January 1 2020, the corporate tax reform entered into force.

So called Initial Coin Offerings ("ICO") as a new fundraising mechanisms in which new projects sell their underlying crypto tokens in exchange for e.g. Bitcoin or Ether

Lastly, U.S. citizens living in Switzerland will benefit from the increased lifetime exclusion amount so that fewer individuals will be subject to estate tax in the U.S.

Infrastructure projects in the areas of leisure and property, transport, energy and the water sector continue to be significant.

Infrastructure projects in the areas of leisure and property, transport, energy and the water sector continue to be significant.

In the latest version of "GAR Know-How Litigation" Dr. Reto M. Jenny, Cinzia Paolucci and Dr. Nicolas Dommer provide an overview of the civil litigation system in Switzerland.

Until the middle of last year, it was possible to hold shares in Swiss private companies on an anonymous basis.

The "OECD" Standard for Automatic Exchange of Financial Account Information in Tax Matters, which encompasses the Common Report- ing Standards ("CRS")...

Securing a court victory is a significant step in obtaining what one is owed. Parties frequently realise though that winning in court is by no means the end of the road, but rather the beginning of another journey called enforcement.

Since 2001, Switzerland has regulated medical devices in the same way as the EU. The former EU Directives on classical medical devices (93/42/EEC), ...