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Swiss corporate law provides companies with three distinct methods to increase their share capital: the ordinary capital increase, the capital range (Kapitalband), and the conditional capital increase. Each of these instruments offers specific advantages and is suited to different financing scenarios—whether for rapid funding, flexible capital raising, or long-term participation of employees and investors. The following sections provide a clear overview of the legal requirements, procedures, and practical use cases for each type of capital increase.

Well-known brands such as "Microsoft", "Apple" or "Coca-Cola" and many other internationally successful brands are not only known worldwide, but are also real crowd pullers. It is therefore tempting to use them in your own marketing to attract attention. But be careful! If you use these brands without the trademark owner's permission, you are entering tricky legal territory. In this blog, we'll show you what you need to bear in mind to avoid making costly mistakes.

In a multi-part webinar, Konsento and Lex Futura provide valuable tips for founders on how to successfully, efficiently and cost-effectively conduct the next financing round for their company. In the first episode “Step by Step”, the two experts guide you through the process of a financing round from a legal perspective and provide a concise overview of the most important steps from pre-termsheet discussions to entry in the commercial register.

We are delighted to once again be ranked among the most recommended business law firms in Switzerland in the current Bilanz ranking – for the sixth time in a row! This expression of satisfaction from our clients makes us proud and is also an incentive to continue delivering top-level legal solutions in the future.

If you provide IT services to financial entities operating in the EU, you're most likely considered a third-party ICT service provider under the new DORA Regulation. Since January 17, 2025, strict requirements for digital operational resilience have come into force – and they affect not only financial entities, but also their ICT partners. Your clients must now ensure that you meet these standards. So the key question is: How can you meet these new requirements without being buried under compliance work? Now is the time to be prepared – and to know exactly where you have room to maneuver.

We all read the headlines back in January: "DeepSeek – open-source competition to OpenAI and other LLMs". But what does open-source actually mean in the context of AI/LLM tools and how "open" are the tools in reality? With the arise of artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) in particular, "open-source" has taken on a new dimension. In terms of AI and LLM it’s not just about the code, but also about training data, model weights (i.e. the "memory of the model") and architecture. This leads to misunderstandings and confusion about how "open" an AI or LLM model actually is.