As many of you know, on December 19, 2011, Saab Automobile AB and affiliated companies filed for bankruptcy in Sweden. The company issued a bulletin to its dealers that same day, announcing that it immediately suspended processing and payment of all claims, and it is suspending warranty coverage on all new Saab vehicles. What does this mean for dealers? Every dealer’s situation is different, and each dealer will have to evaluate its own circumstances based on consultation with an attorney.
In a recent case from the Swedish Supreme Court, case no Ö 4631-11, jurisdictional matters in terms of competence of Swedish courts were considered. The case involved a creditor’s recovery claims in a bankruptcy, in which the assets requested to be recovered consisted of Swedish and foreign patents that had previously been assigned under an agreement in 2004 to a foreign company located in Saint Kitts and Nevis.
In a recent case (T 5911-15) the Supreme Court clarified how to interpret joint and several liability when the creditor settles with one of the debtors and simultaneously releases that party from any future claims.
Der Bundesrat hat aufgrund der ausserordentlichen Lage mit Bezug auf die Corona-Pandemie den Rechtsstillstand im Betreibungswesen angeordnet. Dieser Rechtsstillstand gilt vom 19. März 2020 bis am 4. April 2020. Im unmittelbaren Anschluss daran beginnen die gesetzlichen Betreibungsferien, welche vom 5. April bis am 19. April 2020 dauern. Im Folgenden beantworten wir einige praktische Fragen zum Betreibungs- und Konkursrecht in Zeiten der Corona-Krise.
1. Was bedeutet Rechtsstillstand?
What do I need to know as the member of a Swiss board of directors in times of the coronavirus?
The spread of the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) is causing turnovers to crash and is plunging the Swiss economy into an unprecedented crisis. If the board of directors fails to respond to this crisis, its members risk becoming liable.
Here you will find the answers to the six most important questions regarding a Swiss board member's duties in the wake of the corona crisis:
Um was geht es?
Dieser Artikel beschreibt in Kürze das freiwillige Liquidationsverfahren einer Gesellschaft aufgrund eines Sonderbeschlusses seiner Aktionäre.
Was muss ich tun?
Beschlussfassung der Gesellschafter
As Switzerland maintains a quite strict legal regime governing the director’s liability, it is immanent for each person holding a board function to know the rules and risks as well the legal consequences in this respect. During the last couple of years Switzerland has introduced various new rules influencing the director’s liability (new transparency rules for management compensations in listed companies, a comprehensive revision of the audit legislation and new statutory rules governing financial accounting), which are mainly applicable for listed companies.
