Suchergebnisse für Fehler am Produkt

Dienstleisterketten beim Erbringen von Finanzdienstleistungen: ­Aufsichtsrechtliche Erfassung durch das FIDLEG und vertragsrechtliche ­Haftung der Depotbank

On June 15, 2018 the Parliament passed the new Financial Services Act (FinSA) which presumably will enter into force by the beginning of 2020. The FinSA states new regulatory conduct rules that will apply to financial services providers vis-à-vis their clients. In cases where several financial services providers are involved in the provision of a financial service, the question arises of who has…

Gedanken zum einstweiligen Rechtsschutz gegen pflichtwidriges Handeln von Verwaltungsräten

Swiss law does not allow for the challenge of resolutions taken by the board of directors of a corporation, and only in extreme cases they may be deemed null and void. However, according to a recent decision by the Swiss Federal Supreme Court, this does not exclude claims against a corporation to enforce statutory rights that were denied by the board of directors. Against the background of this…

Europareport

Zur Vereinheitlichung der Praxis der nationalen Gerichte in der EU bei der Bemessung von Schäden, die mittelbaren Kunden eines rechtswidrigen Kartells entstanden sein mögen, will die Europäische Kommission eine weitere Hilfestellung leisten. Derzeit veröffentlicht ist der Entwurf der EU-Kommission für «Leitlinien für die nationalen Gerichte zur Schätzung des Teils der auf den mittelbaren Abnehmer…

Proxy Advisory – eine Standortbestimmung

With the growing interest of institutional investors in Swiss listed companies the influence of proxy advisors has also risen. This, in turn, has led to a wave of non-binding regulations or guidelines and, more recently, to proposals for binding statutory rules addressing those aspects of the proxy advisory industry which for years have been the target of international criticism. The author takes…

Aktuelle Rechtsprechung des Bundesgerichts zum Aktienrecht

During the last two years the Federal Supreme Court issued over 30 company-law cases. The following article discusses two particularly relevant topics of this remarkably rich jurisprudence. A first section deals with cases in which the court had to assess business decisions (in doctrine also referred to as cases of “business judgment rule”). This section provides an in-depth analysis of the three…

Ist die aktienrechtliche Verantwortlichkeit noch zeitgemäss?

An analysis of the board members’ and directors’ liability law shows that its present form has significant deficits: Confronting board members with a liability excee­ding their individual risk capacity causes risk adversity and a crowding out effect within the pool of potential board members. In the light of these functional deficits, it does not come as a surprise that the track record of…

Europareport

Am 16. Juli 2015 hatte der Gerichtshof der Europäischen Union (nachfolgend auch: «EuGH») Gelegenheit, seine Rechtsprechung zum Spannungsverhältnis zwischen dem Patentrecht und dem Wettbewerbsrecht zu präzisieren. In dem zu entscheidenden Fall (Rs. C-170/13) ging es im Kern um die Frage, ob bzw. unter welchen Voraussetzungen die Erhebung einer Klage durch einen Inhaber eines…