{"id":1885,"date":"2014-07-25T16:38:28","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T14:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/?p=1885"},"modified":"2014-07-25T16:38:28","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T14:38:28","slug":"restructuring-merger-demerger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/restructuring-merger-demerger\/","title":{"rendered":"Restructuring – Merger and Demerger"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Swiss Merger Act regulates the restructuring of Swiss companies. This Act states the proceedings on how to merge or demerge\u00a0companies.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

\"judge<\/a><\/p>\n

Why would a company restructure?<\/h3>\n

There are various reasons for a company to restructure. For example, the size of a company does not work anymore, the core business has changed or a business might want to have a new legal form.<\/p>\n

Types of restructuring<\/h3>\n

Different types of restructuring are possible. For example a merger: A merger unites two or more companies into a single legal entity. All assets and liabilities get taken over by the acquiring company by universal succession. However, a business acquisition by OR 181 is different \u2013 a singular succession is done here. With a merger definitely one company goes under during the succession. In the Swiss Merger Act we have to distinguish two mergers: either we can speak of absorption or a merger combination. However legally speaking, spurious merger and quasi-merger are qualified differently. Demerger is a mergers counterpart. Here a company is divided into several parts. When dividing up the company one can differentiate between splitting the company and spinning-off parts of the company. Further one can differentiate between a symmetric and an asymmetric demerger. In addition one can divide a company to start-up a new company and also divide up a company to merger. The Swiss Merger Act also regulates the change of a company\u2019s legal form. If the legal form has become outdated for the company, a new legal format will be chosen. Thus, a change from the GmbH, for example, to the AG or vice versa is made legally possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Swiss Merger Act regulates the restructuring of Swiss companies. This Act states the proceedings on how to merge or demerge companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[8,6,10,9],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":3495,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54Pb1-up","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1885"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1889,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions\/1889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}