Switzerland: Constitutional & Administrative Law

It is perhaps appropriate that our first article on Switzerland for the Mondaq Asset Recovery Newsfeed is devoted to commenting on a recent Federal Court ruling dealing with the post-Brexit application of the Lugano Convention to the enforcement in Switzerland of a UK judgment made in 2019.

One of the consequences of Brexit is that the bilateral Agreement on the Free Movements of Persons between Switzerland and the EU no longer applies to the UK as from 1st January 2021.

Today, 14 October 2025, the Swiss Federal Administrative Court ("SFAC") has overturned FINMA's 19 March 2023 decision ordering the write-off of CHF 16.5 billion in Additional Tier...

UK nationals who have been legally living in Switzerland before December 31, 2020 when the UK withdraws from the EU may continue to live, study, and work in Switzerland through rights established

UK nationals who have been legally living in Switzerland before December 31, 2020 when the UK withdraws from the EU may continue to live, study, and work in Switzerland through rights...

On November 29, a public referendum was held to amend the Swiss constitution that would have required mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence by businesses and introduced liability for extraterritorial human rights and environmental violations.

In this period of reform, it is difficult to maintain an overview of the VAT reorganization. Our newsletter will keep you informed about the latest developments. On 30 March 2007, the Federal Tax Administration put into effect the practice notices highlighted in grey in the enclosed table.

In a decision dated March 6 2006, the FCC cleared the acquisition of AZM Aargauer Zentralmolkerei AG (AZM) by Emmi AG (Emmi). The FCC concluded that the merger created a dominant position of Emmi on the Swiss markets for milk, alimentary cream and butter, but cleared the acquisition on the basis of the Failing Company Defence. Without the acquisition, AZM would have disappeared and Emmi would have gained AZM's market shares.

This presentation seeks to describe the process of judicial assistance for obtaining evidence in civil and commercial matters under The Hague Conventions, going more particularly into detail as concerns resolving conflicts between the common law and continental European law systems. It is based on experience concerning U.S. based pre-trial discovery proceedings to be executed on Swiss territory.