The Swiss trust
A missed opportunity
Luc Thévenoz
— 20 September 2023
The Federal Council has just announced that it does not wish to pursue work on the creation of a trust under Swiss law. The final say will rest with the Federal Assembly, which could refuse to shelve the 2018 motion, but such a refusal is unlikely. Why did this project fail? Was it unnecessary? One might have feared that the introduction of the trust as an institution of Swiss private law, enshrined in the Code of Obligations without being a[...]