Taking action before the foundation of your partnership

Before a partnership is formed, the founders can generally already operate in the name of the partnership.

Reasons to trademark a business name

A trademark is very important.

Names of general partnerships

Composition of the business name

Legal forms of companies in Switzerland

Under Swiss law, there are basically four legal forms of companies:

How to become self-employed

People can start their own business whenever they want to do so. That is obvious.  However, not everybody has the same business idea and because of that, only basics can be discussed in this post. An enterpreneur has to think at least about the following five questions:

Establish own business in Switzerland as a foreigner

Foreigners are generally not disallowed from founding a company in Switzerland. However, a distinction is made between persons from EU/EFTA-states and citizens of third countries.

The general partnership (Kollektivgesellschaft): A legal survey

A general partnership is an association of persons, which normally has an economic purpose and operates a commercial business. Legal entities (e.g. AG or GmbH) are not allowed to join a general partnership. A general partnership is in many respects similar to a sole proprietorship (cf. post), with the difference ...

Choosing the right legal form – two-person partnership – which legal form is best suited for a two-person partnership?

Question: I am a tailor and I would like to set up my own business. I was thinking that it would be reasonable to share a studio with a partner in order to halve the costs for rent, machines etc. How could I set up such a partnership? Were do ...

How do I determine the name of my partnership?

Unless all partner's names are quoted, the firm name must include at least one partner's surname. In business relationships, this name has to be amended with an indication like "& Partners" or similar, so as to make the legal form recognisable. In addition to that, the firm name may include ...