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Risikobegriff in der Ökonomie und im Recht

Risks need to be recorded, measured and monitored. The story of risk has its roots in the calculation of likelihood and is closely connected to the insurance business. Shortly thereafter, regulation was added in. Nevertheless, the market economy system is based on risks and opportunities. It follows that the concept of risk in economics is largely quantitative and focussed on likelihood. In…

Finanzinnovationen und Risikotransfer auf Kapitalmärkten: Grundsätzliches und Aktuelles

Since centuries capital markets play a key role in the allocation of risk. They improve the possibilities for individuals as well as institutions to diversify or transfer part of their risks more efficiently. Over the years, many innovations – in terms of contracts, processes or institutions – have contributed to improve this process by widening the range of risks covered by financial contracts…

Stimmrechtsverhalten von institutionellen Anlegern, insbesondere ­Pensionskassen

The initiative against excessive remuneration gives additional powers to the general meeting of shareholders, in particular where the salaries of mangers are concern­ed. A less known novelty is that it also obliges some of the institutional investors, Swiss pension funds, to exercise their rights as shareholders in the “interests of their members” and to publicly communicate the manner in which…

Verantwortlichkeit der Revisionsgesellschaft bei der Umwandlung (Art. 108 Abs. 2 FusG)

Am 1. Juli 2009 wurde die Umwandlung der F. GmbH in eine Aktiengesellschaft (nunmehr F. AG) ins Handelsregister des Kantons Schwyz eingetragen. Als Umwandlungsbilanz diente die Bilanz der…

Klagen gegen Finanzdienstleister im FIDLEG-Entwurf – ­eine kritische Würdigung

The draft Swiss Financial Services Act («Finanzdienst­leistungsgesetz»/«FIDLEG») aims at the improvement of customer protection. To that end, it also contains procedural rules that shall facilitate lawsuits of custo­mers. Customers do not have to advance court fees nor have to deposit a security for the counterparty’s costs. In certain situations, a customer is relieved from paying any litigation…

Business Judgment Rule und Rechtsrisiken

Legal risks are currently the most dangerous threat for global corporations. This article analyses the question whether the Swiss Business Judgment Rule (BJR) may also provide a “safe harbour” for decisions based on legal uncertainties. This may look surprising, since corporations are bound to comply with the legal environment in which they are operating, therefore illegal behaviour should not be…

Zusicherungen und Garantien zugunsten von Investoren im Rahmen einer Finanzierungsrunde

Before committing to provide additional funds to a target company, investors will typically seek to secure their investment with appropriate representations and warranties. In order to do so, the investors may rely on various stakeholders and, among other options, request that appropriate representations and warranties be provided by the target company itself. This article addresses the statutory…

Wer zahlt, wenn wir bezahlen?

Where payments are made via credit card, retailers are charged with a merchant fee. This fee covers, among others, the interchange fee that the acquirer has to pay to the issuer of the credit card each time the card is used. The following article deals with legal questions that arise relating to interchange fees. In particular, it analyzes the contractual framework between issuer, acquirer,…

Europareport

In vier am 10. März 2016 verkündeten Urteilen hat sich der Gerichtshof der Europäischen Union (nachfolgend auch: «EuGH») mit den – durch EU-Regelungen nur in den Grundzügen geregelten – Anforde­rungen an Auskunftsbegehren der Europäischen Kommission (nachfolgend auch: «Kommission») in Kartellverfahren befasst. Die in jenen Verfahren streitrelevanten Auskunftsverlangen, die an vier…

Le droit des sociétés 2015 / Das Gesellschaftsrecht 2015

Dans la période écoulée, plus longue que d’habitude,¹ le Tribunal fédéral a rendu la première décision publiée en application de l’art. 678 al. 2 CO concernant la restitution des «…