Chōtei mediates disputes between partners, boards and families, in strict confidence and before positions harden.
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The typical time to judgment in a Swiss commercial court, and longer on appeal. The outcome is imposed.
Court hearings and judgments are generally public. Clients, investors and competitors can read them.
Swiss SMEs that close for lack of an agreed successor. The loss is rarely financial. It is an unresolved conversation.
Sources: Swiss commercial court practice (Legal 500 Switzerland); Swiss Civil Procedure Code, Art. 54; KMU Next Foundation and Swiss SME Portal (kmu.admin.ch).
The parties still talk. Any outcome both sides can accept is possible.
Positions harden. Every letter makes a settlement harder to accept.
Costs climb and the dispute is on the record. A judge will decide.
You receive a ruling, not an agreement. The relationship often does not survive it.
Illustrative path of an unresolved commercial dispute. Your say in the outcome (bar) shrinks as it escalates.
At stage one, every option is still open.
Three quick questions, about a minute.
30 minutes, confidential, no obligation.
In writing, with a budget that cannot overrun.