Contract Law
Contract negotiations, joint ventures, GTC, shareholders’ agreement, cooperation agreement
We advise private individuals and companies on drafting contracts, negotiating contracts and enforcing contracts. We also review and edit all types of contracts, including:
- Purchase agreements (moveable property or real estate)
- Rental and lease agreements
- Loan agreements
- Credit agreements
- Employment agreements
- Contract for work and services and trust agreements
- Broker, agency, commission, freight and forwarding agreements
- Surety, guarantee, pledge, security, deposit agreements
- Company and shareholder agreements
- Concubinage, marriage, inheritance, renunciation of inheritance and inheritance division agreements
- leasing, exclusive distribution and distribution agreements
- license agreements
Your Experts
Patrick Stach
Senior Partner
Michael Kummer
Senior Partner
Sheila Stach
Junior Associate
Sven Pschorn
Junior Associate
Faris Beganovic
Junior Associate
Andrea Chawla
Junior Associate
Manuel Baumann
Junior Associate
Jeannine Graf
Junior Associate
Focus
When Employees Want to Join a Competitor: The Non-Compete Covenant
An employee’s move to a competitor can be delicate for a company, particularly where long-standing client relationships, confidential information or specialised know-how are involved. Legally, however, a clear principle applies: after the employment relationship has ended, former employees are in principle free to compete with their former employer. Restrictions are permissible only under certain conditions.
The right and duty to refuse compliance with instructions from the mandator in the context of sanctions
In the context of a mandate, the mandatee is required to perform the business entrusted to him in a diligent and faithful manner (Art. 398 para. 2 of the Swiss Code of Obligations, CO). The extent to which a mandatee may or must refuse to perform a mandate where there are grounds to suspect that the mandator is subject to sanctions was recently considered by the Swiss Federal Tribunal.
The Fine Print: The Rule on Unusual Clauses in General Terms and Conditions
Modern commercial life is characterised by a significant increase in contractual transactions. Online retailers, service providers, banks and insurance companies conclude a vast number of contracts every day that contain largely identical terms. To avoid negotiating each contract individually, businesses have adopted the practice of using pre-formulated contractual provisions in general terms and conditions for the conclusion of large numbers of similar agreements.
