On 1 December 2020, the revised duty to publish an approved prospectus in accordance with the Financial Services Act and the Financial Services Ordinance became fully effective. A remarkable novelty of the new Swiss prospectus regime is the introduced set of explicit exemptions and alleviations from the duty to publish a prospectus, which are largely in line with the Prospectus Regulation (earlier, the Prospectus Directive) of the European Union. This article discusses the exemptions and alleviations from the duty to publish a prospectus under the new Swiss prospectus regime from a practical perspective.

By Valentin Jentsch (Reference: CapLaw-2020-70)