Suchergebnisse für Börsenrecht

Die Rechtsstaatlichkeit der FINMA-Watchlist

Die Eidgenössische Finanzmarktaufsicht FINMA (nachfolgend: FINMA, Beschwerdegegnerin) nahm im Jahr 2009 die Datensammlung «Gewähr für einwandfreie Geschäftstätigkeit und Berufsausübung» in Betrieb …

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Am 13. Juli 2017 fand in Zürich die dritte SZW-Tagung zum Aktienrecht statt, in deren Zentrum Kernfragen des neuen Aktienrechts standen. Die aus den Referaten dieser Tagung hervorgegangenen Beiträge…

Vinkulierung an der Bruchstelle zwischen kotierter Gesellschaft und nicht kotierten Aktionären

This article contains a selective analysis of the current system of share transfer restrictions (Vinkulierung), in particular with regard to the scope of application of the relevant provisions in relation to direct and indirect investments in publicly held companies, that has raised public interest in connection with the “Sika”-case. The authors illustrate the current state of established…

Der Aktionärbindungsvertrag: Einfache Gesellschaft oder Innominatvertrag?

The present article shows that shareholders agreements are not as of necessity general partnership agreements. As a rule they are rather innominate contracts for which the same rules apply as for nominate contracts, in particular re the questions of consensus, interpretation and amendments. In this respect the real will of the parties is relevant in the first place and only in the second place…

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…

Réflexions critiques sur l’adoption par la Suisse des normes du GAFI en ­matière de transparence des sociétés : du bricolage législatif à l’abolition des actions au porteur ?

As a result of the revised FATF recommendations issued in 2012, Switzerland, under international pressure, had no choice but to enact requirements aiming at creating more transparency with regard to the ownership and control of limited by share companies. In this context, the widespread possibility for Swiss companies to issue bearer shares was particularly at stake. Switzerland inserted these…

Art. 704 OR und Minderheitenschutz: Eine aktienrechtliche ­Kurvendiskussion

Majority requirements for shareholder resolutions are an important element of minority protection in corporate law. Swiss learned writing ascribes such minority protecting effect to article 704(1) of the Code of Obligations (CO), which requires certain important shareholder resolutions to be taken by a supermajority of two thirds of votes represented and the absolute majority of capital represented.

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Auch die Weisen vom Mont Repos fahren zuweilen gerne Achterbahn. Dieser Eindruck entsteht jedenfalls hinsichtlich der bundesgerichtlichen Recht­sprechung zum Thema «claw-back-Forderungen der Madoff…

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Den Auftakt des Jahres 2017 macht ein Heft, dessen Inhalt thematisch in der Vergangenheit nicht im Zentrum der SZW gestanden hat, nämlich der Einfluss der Informationstechnologie auf das…

Corporate Governance auf der Blockchain

It is within the context of crypto-currencies that Blockchain first gained importance as a new technology. In the meantime, it has been recognized that this technology can also be used in the corporate environment. Such usage would have significant effects on corporate governance within companies (for example, in connection with the transparency of ownership, the handling of voting rights,…