Edith Schmidt

It gives us great pleasure to congratulate our lawyers Reto M. Jenny and Mike Abegg on the publication of their commentary on Title 9 of the Swiss Code of Civil Procedure (art. 124-149) in the third edition of the Orell Füssli Commentary. The new edition is now available. Well done!

Prager Dreifuss is proud to announce that our colleagues Andrea Schütz, Christian Schönfeld and Marcel Frey have been recognised by Mondaq as thought leaders in the area of Food, Drugs, Healthcare and Life Sciences in Switzerland in its autumn 2023 awards.

In this article of Getting The Deal Through, Daniel Hayek and Mark Meili outline the statutory framework for joint ventures in Switzerland and discuss current trends in this area.

Urs Feller and Marcel Frey analyse the implications of a revision to the Swiss Civil Procedure Code with relation to the legal privilege for in-house counsel during internal investigations from a civil and criminal procedure point of view.
 

Daniel Hayek and Mark Meili published the Swiss chapter in the latest edition of The Insolvency Review. In this chapter, the authors give an overview of the distinctive features of Swiss insolvency laws and explain which new duties arise for boards of directors according to the revised Swiss company law.

Marcel Frey and Sapphire Graham discuss a recent Federal Supreme Court and an ensuing European Human Rights Court decision on the eligibility to compete of the Olympic middle-distance athlete Caster Semenya.

Even weeks after the new data protection law came into force in Switzerland, many companies still lack orientation. The extensive scope of the GDPR can be confusing when compared to the Swiss Data Protection Act (DPA), but it is worth clarifying this in detail.

The implementation of Swiss data protection law is less complex than the implementation of the GDPR, and the sanctions are also significantly milder than if the GDPR is also applicable, under which the consequences of non-compliance can be significantly more serious. The following overview is intended to provide support in this regard:

In the latest issue of "The Restructuring Review", Daniel Hayek and Mark Meili provide an overview of the special features of Swiss restructuring law.