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
Ramon Bühler
Associate
Patrik Mauchle
Associate
Nicolas Buob
Associate
Focus
Stach Rechtsanwälte AG was once again recognized as one of the top law firms in Switzerland in the area of “private equity and venture capital”
The business magazine BILANZ, the Handelszeitung and the newspaper Le Temps have been publishing lists of the top law firms in Switzerland in various legal
Approval of a legal transaction voidable due to deception
If a contracting party has been induced to conclude a contract by intentional deception, the contract is not binding on him even if the error aroused was not a material one (Art. 28 para. 1 CO). With other words the contract is not binding for the deceived person and no obligations from the contract can be held against him.
The general abstract examination/content review of general terms and conditions pursuant to Art. 8 UCA
Article 8 of the Unfair Competition Act (UCA) constitutes a statutory provision in the field of competition law aimed at protecting contractual partners with regard to general terms and conditions (GTC). In 2012, a revision of Art. 8 UCA was carried out, which in principle allowed for a transparent review of the content of GTC. This possibility was previously not available under the former Art. 8 UCA.
