Practical perspectives on Swiss legal, regulatory and accounting topics.

Setting up a Swiss company can be relatively straightforward. Building a Swiss company that is credible to banks, tax authorities, counterparties and professional service providers is a different…

Foreign-owned Swiss companies are often managed through the reporting logic of the group. Numbers flow into consolidation, invoices are booked somewhere in the ERP, and the Swiss entity…

Transactions rarely fail because nobody can draft a contract. They fail, stall or become expensive because execution streams are not coordinated. The signing date is visible. The closing…

Swiss anti-money laundering rules can apply to business models that do not look like traditional banks. Payment flows, asset transfers, crypto-related services, fiduciary arrangements, escrow-like structures or certain…

Hiring in Switzerland often looks simple from the outside. A company needs a contract, a salary, a start date and a person who can do the work. In…