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Rethinking Company Changes – Topakustik AG Goes Digital
Topakustik AG uses Hoop to handle company changes and new incorporations across its group – saving around two hours per case while replacing paper-heavy coordination with a simple digital process. “Hoop is the best and most intuitive digital tool for handling company incorporations and changes.” – Theodor Jaggi, Co-owner and Chairman of the Board, Topakustik…
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How to Collaborate Digitally with Clients
Digital client collaboration is becoming essential for fiduciaries, lawyers, corporate legal teams, and other professionals supporting companies in Switzerland. Clients increasingly expect processes to be clear, accessible and easy to follow. This is particularly important when a company is being incorporated, its Commercial Register (Handelsregister) entry must be updated, or several stakeholders are working across…
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White-Label LegalTech Explained: What It Means and Why It Matters
White-label solutions allow a company to offer technology or services developed by another provider while maintaining its own client relationship and market presence. In LegalTech, this model gives fiduciaries, law firms, consultancies and corporate legal teams access to specialised digital infrastructure without having to develop, operate and maintain their own platform. What does white-label mean…
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Scaling Company Formations: How Law Firms Handle High Volumes Efficiently
Managing one company formation is relatively straightforward. Managing dozens at the same time is a different operational challenge. For law firms, fiduciaries and corporate legal teams, every new Swiss company can involve client onboarding, data collection, document preparation, signatures, notarial coordination and registration with the Commercial Register (Handelsregister). The legal forms may include an LLC…
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Digital Client Onboarding: How to Onboard Clients Efficiently
Digital client onboarding is the process of collecting client information, verifying identities, preparing documents, and initiating services through a structured online workflow. For fiduciaries, lawyers, and corporate legal teams, onboarding is more than an administrative step. It shapes the client’s first impression, affects the speed of service delivery, and determines how much time professionals spend…
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Digitalisation of fiduciary firms: how fiduciaries can automate processes
Digitalisation of fiduciary firms is no longer only about replacing paper with PDFs. It is about creating faster, clearer, and more reliable workflows for clients who expect professional services to be as simple as the digital tools they use every day. For fiduciaries, lawyers, corporate legal teams, and advisors working with investors, international entrepreneurs, and…
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Preparing for the Swiss Transparency Register: data, processes and responsibilities
Why SMEs should start preparing now Switzerland’s new Transparency Register (Transparenzregister – TJPG) will make beneficial ownership reporting a practical compliance topic for many Swiss companies. The new rules are expected to enter into force on 1 October 2026 and will require affected legal entities to identify, verify and keep information on their beneficial owners…
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Can you keep your Swiss share register digitally?
For many Swiss companies, the share register still exists as a spreadsheet, a scanned PDF, or a file that only one person can find. This may work at the beginning. But as soon as shares are transferred, new investors join, or corporate changes are prepared, an unclear share register becomes a risk. The good news…
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Indirect Participations and Holding Structures: How to Identify the Beneficial Owners Behind a Company
Why beneficial ownership matters Indirect participations and holding structures are common in modern business. Investors may hold shares through a holding company. Founders may create a group structure for growth. International entrepreneurs may use foreign parent companies. Fiduciaries, lawyers, and corporate legal teams may manage ownership chains across several entities. These structures can be perfectly…
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How Secure Are Digital Authority Services in Switzerland?
Digital authority services are becoming a normal part of doing business in Switzerland. For founders, investors, fiduciaries, lawyers, and corporate legal teams, the question is no longer whether administration can move online. The real question is whether digital processes are secure enough for legally sensitive company matters. The answer is yes, when the process is…
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