Diego Benz contributed to the Swiss Blockchain Federation’s circular “Register Value Rights”
As one of the authors, Diego Benz was able to contribute to the Swiss Blockchain Federation’s latest circular “Register Value Rights”. The authors have dealt intensively with the new securities law provisions of the DLT Act. The provisions, which came into force on 1 February 2021, form a robust legal basis for the tokenization of […]
Diego Benz contributed to Circular 2020/1 of the Swiss Blockchain Federation
The new DLT Act (Act on the Technology of Distributed Electronic Registers) is expected to come into force in 2021. This will bring legal certainty in many areas. For example, for the transfer of digital assets (so-called tokens), the segregation of such assets in the event of the bankruptcy of a third party and the […]
Digital lecture at the University of St. Gallen
The coronavirus forced Patrik Odermatt and Philippe Kaiser to give their lecture at the University of St. Gallen digitally. This new format was challenging, but it opened up many new opportunities. The topic could hardly have been more topical. The two speakers shed light on corporate notarial transactions in the digital age – electronic notarization, […]
Philippe Kaiser on stage at IBM Blockchain Day
Philippe Kaiser presented the Drakkensberg project at the IBM Blockchain Day together with project partners Dr. Uli Schimpel and attorney Diego Benz. In particular, they showed how the project of digitized company formation has developed since the first foundation in April 2018. The attendees were particularly interested in the use of blockchain, which led to […]
Blockchain training
Our founding partner Philippe Kaiser has joined the blockchain training for legal and accounting professionals by ValidityLabs. ValidityLabs provides services starting with education, advisory and finally an STO and/or a full solution. The two experts Quianchen “Q” Yu and Dr. Thomas von Bomhard have shown beside others the technical background of a blockchain, how a […]
Course “Founding a public limited company” at the University of St. Gallen by Philippe Kaiser and Patrik Odermatt
This year, our founding partners Philippe Kaiser and Patrik Odermatt were once again invited by Prof. Dr. Lukas Müller as part of the “Law and Economics” course at the University of St. Gallen. As part of their presentation, they will show the students how to found a public limited company using practical examples. Special attention […]
Developments in the regulation of virtual currencies in Switzerland and the European Union
Virtual currencies pose new challenges for regulators, supervisory authorities and legislators. At European Union level, the fight against money laundering in the area of virtual currencies is currently being driven forward with the fifth money laundering regulation. In Switzerland, players in the cryptocurrency sector are already subject to money laundering regulation. Compared to the EU, […]
Foundation on the blockchain
Philippe Kaiser of Kaiser Odermatt & Partner together with the Canton of Zug, the home of the Swiss Crypto Valley, Grunder Attorneys at Law, Swisscom, IBM, VermögensZentrum and Zwicky Windlin & Partner have taken up the challenge of digitalSwitzerland that the entire process of registering a Swiss public limited company in the commercial register can […]