TalkingPoint: Kartellrechtliche Untersuchungen In Der Schweiz

Switzerland's Federal Council has opened consultation on the Investment Screening Ordinance, which establishes the implementing provisions for the Swiss Federal Act on the Review of Foreign Investments adopted in December 2025. The ordinance details approval requirements, procedures, and exemptions for foreign state-controlled acquisitions of Swiss companies in critical sectors, while introducing anti-circumvention measures and a fee structure ranging from CHF 5,000 to CHF 60,000.

The Swiss FSC has annulled two judgments of the Swiss FAC in the mountings for windows and window doors case.

In this judgment, the FSC held that an export ban in an Austrian licence agreement had infringed the Swiss Act on Cartels (CA).

In den letzten Jahrzehnten hat die zunehmende Interna- tionalisierung und Kommerzialisierung des professio- nellen Fussballs eine wachsende Zahl von Investoren angezogen, die Beteiligungen an Fussballclubs erwerben wollen.

Following the adoption of the revised Cartel Act in December 2025 (see Insight of 5 December 2026), on 20 May 2026 the Swiss Federal Council adopted its long-awaited proposal for significant institutional and procedural reforms to Swiss competition law enforcement.

Switzerland's latest cartel law reform introduces significant changes to competition assessment methodology and merger control procedures. While the reform modernizes merger review by adopting the SIEC test, it simultaneously creates a paradox by potentially diverging from EU standards in how agreements between undertakings are evaluated, raising questions about the balance between effects-based analysis and legal certainty.

The Swiss Competition Commission issued its revised notice on the treatment of vertical agreements under competition law.

Today, few speak about organised and drug related crime in the context of anti-money laundering legislation.

In this guide, Marcel Frey, Martin Heisch and Raphael Märki address 25 key questions on the enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters in Switzerland, detailing inter alia the legal basis on which parties may rely (bilateral or multilateral agreements, statutory law)...

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

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

For what is arguably the financial capital of the world, Switzerland is renowned for its jurisdiction's financial benefits, but this doesn't mean businesses encounter less risk.

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

Herr Zurkinden, 2019 haben Sie für das Parlament zwei Gutachten zum damaligen Rahmenabkommen mit der EU verfasst. Ihr Fazit fiel sehr negativ aus.

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

In the aftermath of the grounding of the Swiss national airline, the Swiss Federal Supreme Court passed another leading case on 16 October 2014.

The Consortium's takeover offer received antitrust clearance by the European Commission on 25 May 2022.