This volume focuses on partnership law. It analyzes the numerous innovations brought about by the current reform of the century in Germany and compares them with the external and internal systems in Austria and Switzerland.

This volume deals with the panorama of partnerships in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. It explains the motives, background and main features of the major reform in Germany through the MoPeG (Act on the Modernization of Partnership Law) as well as the deviating taxonomies of Austrian and Swiss law. Fundamental issues such as the numerus clausus of company and partnership forms, legal protection agains unlawful member resolutions and the interpretation of partnership agreements are dealt with in detail. There are also special issues relating to the dissolution of partnerships, their conversion into corporations and the appropriate treatment of public partnerships and shareholders' agreements.

Autorentext

Holger Fleischer (Herausgegeben von)
is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg.

Susanne Kalss (Herausgegeben von)
is a university professor at the Institute for Civil and Corporate Law at the Vienna University of Economics and Business.

Hans-Ueli Vogt (Herausgegeben von)
is Professor of Private and Commercial Law at the University of Zurich.