Suchergebnisse für Genossenschaft

Das Aktienkapital im Entwurf zur Aktienrechtsrevision

On November 23, 2016, the Federal Council published its proposal for a revised law on companies limited by shares. This article deals with the share capital, one of the key aspects of the proposed revision. First, it addresses the specific characteristic of Swiss law, according to which shares have a nominal value. Second, the article analyzes how the procedures of capital changes are regulated in…

Praxis der Aufsichtskommission zur Sorgfaltspflicht der Banken für die Jahre 2011 bis 2016

Die Vereinbarung über die Standesregeln zur Sorgfaltspflicht der Banken (VSB) zwischen der Schweizerischen Bankiervereinigung («SBVg») einerseits und den unterzeichnenden Banken («Banken») andererseits ist ein multilateraler Vertrag, in dessen Rahmen sich in der Schweiz niedergelassene Banken gegenüber der SBVg verpflichten, die in den Standesregeln definierten Sorgfaltspflichten bei der…

Sacheinlage- und Sachübernahmevertrag

The contribution in kind agreement is a contract not specifically classified in the Swiss Code of Obligations (CO). According to the prevailing legal opinion the contribution in kind agreement has to be interpreted in line with contractual instead of company law principles. It is widely recognised that the contribution in kind agreement has a close affiliation with the contract of exchange. Based…

Fusions-, Spaltungs- und Vermögensübertragungsverträge aus Sicht der Gesellschaft und der Gesellschafter

The Federal Act on Merger, Demerger, Transformation and Transfer of Assets (Merger Act) contains the minimal contents of the merger agreement, the demerger agreement and the transfer of assets agreement («the reorganisation agreement»). In addition, the Merger Act regulates which bodies of the involved companies have to give their consent to the reorganisation agreement and in which form to…

Anlegerschutz durch Trennung?

Since the financial crisis, the attention of international standard-setters and supervisory authorities has increasingly turned to the segregation of financial market participants’ assets from those of their customers, with the latter being held either together with those of other indirect participants (omnibus customer account segregation) or separately (individual customer account segregation)…

Die Bilanzierung des Eigenkapitals im Einzelabschluss von Kapitalgesellschaften

This essay shows how the equity capital of a corporation or a limited liability company must be presented in the balance sheet pursuant to the new Swiss accounting law. The structure of the article follows the individual items of the equity capital, whereby a balance sheet prepared in Swiss francs is assumed. It has been concluded that the supposedly comprehensive accounting law provisions…

Erwerb eigener börsenkotierter Aktien

When a company buys own shares, it reimburses the paid-in capital. Before 2013 own shares were always a mixture of a profit-sharing and a purchase of an asset. In 2013 this changed completely; own shares are no longer assets and can no longer be capitalized. This decision of the legislator, that own shares are a form of profit-sharing, has various consequences: the shareholder must treated…

Das Gesellschaftsrecht 2016/2017 / Le droit des sociétés 2016/2017

Im vergangenen Jahr stachen neben dem Fall Sika vor allem eine Reihe von Urteilen zum Verantwortlichkeitsrecht ins Auge. Diese bestätigen einerseits die klärende neuere Rechtsprechung zur Business…

Crowdlending als bewilligungspflichtige Entgegennahme von ­Publikumseinlagen

Die A. AG (mittlerweile: A. AG in Liquidation; nachfolgend: A. AG) ist eine Aktiengesellschaft mit Sitz in A. Seit 2013 bietet die A. AG interessierten Kunden die Möglichkeit eines «Direktinvestments…

Kernfragen der Aktienrechtsrevision

On November 23, 2016, the Federal Council published its proposal for a revised law on companies limited by shares. This article deals with four key aspects of the proposed revision. First, it addresses the proposed amendments regar­ding the capital structure. The authors thereby focus on the rules for capital increases, decreases and the possibility to introduce a so called «capital band». Secon…