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THE REFORM OF SWISS CORPORATE LAW - WHAT A CHALLENGE

THE REFORM OF SWISS CORPORATE LAW - WHAT A CHALLENGE

"FOCUS Business Challenges 2020", Supplement to the Tages-Anzeiger of 19 March 2020

The development of corporate and stock corporation law is of great importance for Switzerland as a business location. The reform is correspondingly complex and costly and will involve everything from gender equality to more flexible capital structures.

Our partners Dr. Reto Boehi, Urs Reinwald and Nathalie Urban of SwissLegal (Zurich) AG will present to you in advance some highlights on various topics which, in addition to the economic consequences of the current pandemic - and together with countless other changes resulting from the current reform of company law - will have to be implemented in the near future.

You can download the entire article (PDF).

We wish you an interesting read.

 

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