Company Law

BADER ▪ GNEHM & PARTNER advises privately and publicly owned companies, their boards of directors, investors, and shareholders, as well as entrepreneurs from all branches with respect to all commercial- and company-law issues. The spectrum of clients in our care ranges from exchange-listed enterprises through small and medium-sized companies up to start-ups.

Within the commercial- and company-law area, we provide the following services in particular:

Founding of companies and the establishing of branches
Setup of organisation structures (organisational regulations)
Financing of enterprises
Shareholder agreements
Succession arrangements
General shareholders’ meetings (preparing and conducting, taking of minutes, independent voting proxy)

Assuming of board of directors’ appointments
Advising of boards of directors and management (duties and liability)
Employment issues (employment contracts and termination agreements, etc.)
Employee share-purchase plans
Data protection in enterprises
Corporate governance issues
General issues related to commercial, company, and capital-market law (ad-hoc publicity, management transactions, insider trading, anti-corruption, etc.)
Advising in business-law matters (internal investigations, white collar crime
Representation of authorities and organisations (e.g. the Takeover Board, FINMA, SIX Swiss Exchange)