{"id":2218,"date":"2016-01-25T15:56:35","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T14:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/?p=2218"},"modified":"2016-02-23T11:51:04","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T10:51:04","slug":"founding-branch-offices-in-switzerland-which-legal-forms-are-permitted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/founding-branch-offices-in-switzerland-which-legal-forms-are-permitted\/","title":{"rendered":"Founding branch offices in Switzerland – which legal forms are permitted?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A \u2019Swiss Branch\u2019 can be founded by domestic as well as foreign companies. The legal form of the head office is generally an AG (PLC), GmbH (Ltd) or a cooperative. However, in practice, there are also other legal forms that are permitted when founding a branch.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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\"Founding<\/p>\n

Swiss branch<\/strong><\/p>\n

A branch office is a commercial operation which, from a legal perspective, is a dependent part of a main office (see blog entry<\/a>). The principal branch can use this office to offer their line of business at locations other than at the main office.<\/p>\n

Swiss companies can set up branch offices in Switzerland and abroad. The head office\u2019s legal form is generally an AG (PLC), GmbH (Ltd) or a cooperative (see Art. 641, 778a and 836 OR<\/a> (Code of Obligations). The forms that are generally approved for founding such a branch office are commercial general and limited partnerships (see Forstmoser\/Meier-Hayoz, Schweizerisches Gesellschaftsrecht (Swiss Corporate Law), P. 743). The general requirement is that a commercial company in the sense of Art. 934 OR is in existence. This means that branch offices are excluded for simple partnerships and non-commercial general and limited partnerships.<\/p>\n

Foreign companies<\/strong><\/p>\n

Foreign companies can found branch offices in Switzerland,which are also subject to Swiss law (Art. 160 Para. 1 IPRG<\/a> (private international law)). If the foreign legal system permits the establishment of a branch in its own country, companies can generally also found a branch office in Switzerland.<\/p>\n

\u00bb Further information about branch offices<\/a>\u00bb Calculating quotes and setting up a branch online<\/a><\/p>\n

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A \u2019Swiss Branch\u2019 can be founded by domestic as well as foreign companies. The legal form of the head office is generally an AG (PLC), GmbH (Ltd) or a cooperative. However, in practice, there are also other legal forms that are permitted when founding a branch.<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[501],"tags":[521,522,523,520],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":2885,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54Pb1-zM","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218"}],"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=2218"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2237,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218\/revisions\/2237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}