Switzerland: Constitutional & Administrative Law

It is perhaps appropriate that our first article on Switzerland for the Mondaq Asset Recovery Newsfeed is devoted to commenting on a recent Federal Court ruling dealing with the post-Brexit application of the Lugano Convention to the enforcement in Switzerland of a UK judgment made in 2019.

En réponse aux standards internationaux en matière de lutte contre le blanchiment d’argent et le financement du terrorisme, la Suisse introduit la loi fédérale sur la transparence des personnes morales et l’identification des ayants droit économiques (LTPM). La LTPM remplacera les obligations (internes) actuelles d’annonce et de tenue de registre relatives à l’ayant droit économique.

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One of the consequences of Brexit is that the bilateral Agreement on the Free Movements of Persons between Switzerland and the EU no longer applies to the UK as from 1st January 2021.

Three recent Swiss cantonal court decisions have shed light on the intertemporal application of the Lugano Convention after Brexit with respect to the recognition and enforcement of UK judgments in Switzerland.

Das Verwaltungsgericht hat sich in seinem publizierten und in Rechtskraft erwachsenen Entscheid vom 16. Dezember 2021 mit dem Thema auseinandergesetzt, ob das Handelsregisteramt einen irrtümlich nicht geschwärzten Beleg austauschen muss.

A practice note published by the SFTA on 5 February 2019 adopts a highly welcome loosening of the conditions under which bonds/debentures ...

Everything is still unclear and no one really knows.

At the beginning of this year, the Swiss Federal Government presented a legislative bill to revise certain aspects of international arbitration legislation in Switzerland.