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We are happy to announce that were able to achieve another award in the BILANZ Law Firm Ranking 2022. We are now also listed with the highest rating in the area of dispute resolution. In addition, our clients and colleagues confirmed the rankings from previous years in the areas of "international law", "technology and telecommunications law" and "private equity and venture capital".

Wenn zwei Personen eine gemeinsame Aktiengesellschaft gründen, sich je zu 50% daran beteiligen und im Verwaltungsrat Einsitz nehmen, kann es bei Meinungsverschiedenheiten im Verwaltungsrat und/oder in der Generalversammlung schnell zu einem sog. Deadlock bzw. einer Pattsituation kommen. Die Gesellschaft kann keine Beschlüsse mehr fällen und wird handlungsunfähig. Ein echtes Problem.

In this blog article you get an overview of different options and issues when setting up a subsidiary in Switzerland. This helps you to face all potential risks early on in the establishing-process and to avoid unnecessary costs and delays.

A start-up usually conducts several successive financing rounds. If a later financing round is carried out at a lower valuation than an earlier round, it is a Down Round. In a Down Round, Investors suffer from a so-called price dilution. Due to the lower valuation, the value of the shares falls below the level of the original investment. The following article explains how investors can protect themselves against such a loss of value and which calculation methods are used in practice.

When investing in start-ups, there is often a need to to “bundle” several small investors. In this context, one often speaks about syndication or pooling. Forms of syndication or pooling include, for example, capital pooling, the trustee model, and the pooling of voting and other rights. The following article addresses the pooling of voting rights and presents a possible contract clause for shareholders agreements.

Unregulated investment funds – commonly known as hedge funds – have have been important participants in the globalised financial markets. Their regulation is however still debated quite heavily. In this article, Alain Friedrich contributes to the discussion of hedge fund regulation and proposes a new regulatory framework by recommending a set of international minimum standards for hedge fund regulation.