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60 companies and institutions featured in Unter Vorbehalt coverage.

Brand

Les Éditions Albert René Les Éditions Albert René is a French comic-book publisher founded in 1979 and since 2011 wholly owned by Hachette/Lagardère, holding all intellectual property rights in the Asterix and Obelix universe including international licensing. 1 article
Nestlé S.A. Nestlé S. 1 article

Platform

OpenAI OpenAI is an American AI research and deployment company founded in 2015, known for the GPT series of large language models and the ChatGPT product; it develops and deploys AI systems at commercial scale across multiple jurisdictions. 1 article
Smood SA Smood SA is a Swiss food and grocery delivery platform founded in Geneva in 2012, operating across 25 Swiss cities with over 1,150 employees including approximately 1,000 salaried delivery staff. 1 article
Uber Eats Uber Eats is the food and grocery delivery platform of Uber Technologies Inc. 1 article

Vendor

Bird & Bird Bird & Bird is an international law firm founded in London in 1846, with over 1,700 lawyers across 30+ offices worldwide. 1 article
Bratschi AG Bratschi AG is a full-service Swiss commercial law firm with offices in Basel, Bern, Geneva, Lausanne, and Zurich, advising on corporate/M&A, banking and finance, regulatory, litigation, employment, and IP matters. 1 article
Douana Douana is a Zurich-based Swiss customs and foreign-trade consultancy (ZFEB Customs & Trade Consultants), led by Claudia Feusi, offering customs advisory, process optimisation and digitalisation services for businesses. 1 article
Galika AG Galika AG is a Swiss company based in Volketswil, founded in 1986, that distributes and imports machine tools, acting as a distributor/importer/agent for brands such as EWAG in laser cutting and tool & cutter grinding equipment. 1 article
Homburger AG Homburger is a leading Zurich-based full-service corporate law firm founded in 1957, consistently top-ranked for financial market regulation, M&A, arbitration, and compliance work in Switzerland. 1 article
Ius Laboris Ius Laboris is the world's largest international alliance of law firms specialising in employment law, industrial relations, and pensions law, founded in 2001 and headquartered in Brussels with member firms across 59 countries. 1 article
Kellerhals Carrard Kellerhals Carrard is one of Switzerland's largest full-service law firms, with over 200 lawyers across eight Swiss offices, advising on corporate, M&A, arbitration, regulatory, and insolvency matters. 1 article
Lenz & Staehelin Lenz & Staehelin is one of Switzerland's largest independent law firms, founded in 1991 through the merger of the Zurich and Geneva practices, with over 200 lawyers and tax experts advising listed multinationals, institutions and private clients across financial services, M&A, TMT and life sciences. 1 article
Lewis Silkin Lewis Silkin is a British law firm founded in 1950, headquartered in London with additional offices across the UK, Ireland and Hong Kong, known for its work in employment, IP/media, immigration and commercial law. 1 article
Proton AG Proton AG is a Swiss privacy-technology company founded in 2014 by CERN scientists, offering end-to-end encrypted email, VPN, cloud storage, calendar, and password management to over 100 million users, majority-owned by the non-profit Proton Foundation and headquartered in Geneva. 1 article
Stach Rechtsanwälte AG Stach Rechtsanwälte AG is a boutique Swiss law and notary firm based in St. 1 article
Thommen Law & Risk Management GmbH Thommen Law & Risk Management GmbH is a Swiss legal and risk-management advisory firm based in Root, Lucerne, founded by a corporate lawyer with prior risk-management experience in industrial and transport companies, advising businesses on legal and compliance matters. 1 article
Threema GmbH Threema GmbH is a Swiss encrypted-messaging company founded in 2012 and headquartered in Pfäffikon SZ, providing end-to-end encrypted messaging to over 12 million users and 8,000+ organisations via consumer, enterprise (Threema Work), and on-premises (Threema OnPrem) products. 1 article
Walder Wyss Walder Wyss is one of Switzerland's leading commercial law firms, founded in Zurich in 1972, with over 280 lawyers across six Swiss offices. 1 article

Logistics

Chaskis SA Chaskis SA is a Geneva delivery company founded in 2019 — within three weeks of the Cour de justice de Genève ruling that classified Uber Eats couriers as employees — to supply bicycle couriers to Uber Eats under a technology-services contract. 1 article

Research

Bundesamt für Cybersicherheit (BACS) The Bundesamt für Cybersicherheit (BACS) is Switzerland's federal cybersecurity authority, established on 1 January 2024 when the former National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) was elevated to a full federal office under the Federal Department of Finance. 1 article
Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI) BSI is Germany's federal cybersecurity authority, based in Bonn, responsible for shaping information security policy and regulation for the German government, critical infrastructure, and increasingly the broader economy under laws like the BSIG. 1 article
Bundesamt für Zoll und Grenzsicherheit (BAZG) BAZG is the Swiss federal customs and border security authority, responsible for customs administration, border control and enforcement across Switzerland. 2 articles
CNIL (Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés) CNIL is France's independent data protection authority, established in 1978, responsible for enforcing data privacy law, regulating personal data processing, and ensuring individuals' digital rights under the French Data Protection Act and the GDPR. 1 article
Deutsche Emissionshandelsstelle (DEHSt) DEHSt is the German national authority for EU emissions trading, housed within the Federal Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt) in Berlin, responsible for allowance allocation, monitoring, the national emissions registry, and CBAM authorisation matters for German-based operators. 1 article
Digitale Gesellschaft Digitale Gesellschaft is a Swiss digital-rights association founded in 2011 with over 1,000 members and 100 active volunteers across 50 working groups, defending fundamental rights in digital contexts. 1 article
ENISA (European Union Agency for Cybersecurity) ENISA is the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity, established in 2004 and headquartered in Athens, tasked with advising EU institutions and member states on network and information security and supporting implementation of EU cybersecurity legislation such as NIS2. 1 article
EUIPO The European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) is the EU agency based in Alicante, Spain (est. 1 article
European Data Protection Board (EDPB) The European Data Protection Board is an independent EU body established under the GDPR in 2018, responsible for ensuring the consistent application of data protection law across the EU and promoting cooperation between national supervisory authorities. 2 articles
Financial Action Task Force (FATF) The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is an intergovernmental body established in 1989 whose mandate is to set global standards and promote effective implementation of legal, regulatory, and operational measures to combat money laundering, terrorist financing, and related threats to the international financial system. 1 article
Future of Privacy Forum The Future of Privacy Forum is a Washington DC-based non-profit think tank founded in 2008, serving as a catalyst for privacy leadership and scholarship on data protection and emerging technology policy. 1 article
Garante per la protezione dei dati personali The Garante per la protezione dei dati personali is Italy's independent data protection authority, established in 1997, responsible for overseeing compliance with data protection and privacy law including the GDPR and protecting individuals' fundamental rights in relation to personal data processing. 1 article
Koalition für Konzernverantwortung Founded in 2011, the Koalition für Konzernverantwortung is a Swiss coalition of over 100 human rights, environmental, and development organisations campaigning to make human rights and environmental due diligence legally binding for Swiss corporations operating globally. 1 article
OECD Working Group on Bribery The OECD Working Group on Bribery is the peer-review monitoring body for the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, composed of 46 state parties; it periodically assesses each signatory's enforcement of foreign bribery laws and issues binding recommendations. 2 articles
Switzerland Global Enterprise Switzerland Global Enterprise (S-GE) is the official Swiss organisation for export and investment promotion, mandated by the Confederation and cantons since 1927, supporting thousands of Swiss companies annually through offices and partners worldwide. 1 article
Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) The TCFD was a task force established in 2015 by the Financial Stability Board to develop voluntary, consistent climate-related financial risk disclosure recommendations for companies; it fulfilled its remit and disbanded in 2023, with monitoring transferred to the IFRS Foundation. 1 article
Transparency International Suisse Transparency International Schweiz/Suisse is the Swiss national chapter of Transparency International, the world's leading anti-corruption NGO, founded to fight corruption and money laundering in Switzerland and in the foreign business relationships of Swiss actors. 2 articles
WEKO (Wettbewerbskommission) WEKO (Wettbewerbskommission / Commission de la concurrence / Commissione della concorrenza) is Switzerland's independent federal Competition Commission, established in 1995, mandated to enforce Swiss competition law by combating harmful cartels, supervising market-dominant companies, conducting merger control, and preventing state restrictions on competition. 1 article

Media

sui generis sui generis is Switzerland's only double-blind peer-reviewed open-access legal journal, founded in 2014, edited independently and indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals; it publishes Swiss and comparative law scholarship under a platinum open-access model with no fees for authors or readers. 1 article

Financial

AMLA (Anti-Money Laundering Authority) AMLA is the EU's Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism, a decentralised agency established in 2024 and headquartered in Frankfurt am Main, tasked with coordinating national AML supervisors and directly supervising major financial institutions from 2028. 1 article
European Commission The European Commission is the EU's executive institution, responsible for proposing legislation, implementing policy, and enforcing EU law across all member states. 3 articles
FINMA FINMA (Eidgenössische Finanzmarktaufsicht) is Switzerland's independent financial-markets supervisory authority, established in 2009, responsible for supervising banks, insurance companies, exchanges, securities dealers, and collective investment schemes and for enforcing Swiss financial market law including licence withdrawals and Berufsverbote against responsible individuals. 9 articles
Glencore Glencore is one of the world's largest diversified natural resource companies, producing and marketing more than 60 commodities including copper, cobalt, zinc, and coal, with global mining, processing, and trading operations. 1 article
Gunvor Group Gunvor Group is one of the world's largest independent energy commodities trading houses, founded in 2000 and headquartered in Geneva, trading crude oil, refined products, metals and bulk materials across global markets. 1 article
IXM IXM S. 1 article
MBaer Merchant Bank AG MBaer Merchant Bank AG was a Zurich-based private bank offering wealth management, asset management, advisory, and trade finance services to entrepreneurs and their businesses, until its banking licence was revoked by FINMA in early 2026 following AML enforcement proceedings. 1 article
Mercuria Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Geneva, Mercuria is one of the world's leading independent energy and commodity groups, trading oil, gas, metals, and renewables in more than 50 countries with revenues exceeding $100 billion. 1 article
MKS PAMP Group MKS PAMP Group is a Swiss-headquartered integrated precious metals group founded in 1979, specialising in the trading, refining, and fabrication of gold, silver, platinum, and palladium across 15 offices in 12 countries. 1 article
MROS (Money Reporting Office Switzerland) The Money Laundering Reporting Office Switzerland (MROS / Meldestelle für Geldwäscherei) is Switzerland's central Financial Intelligence Unit, operating under fedpol (Swiss Federal Police). 2 articles
OFAC (Office of Foreign Assets Control) The Office of Foreign Assets Control is a US Treasury Department agency that administers and enforces US economic and trade sanctions programmes; its Sudan/Darfur list designates individuals and entities independently of EU and UN listings, creating a parallel compliance obligation for non-US firms transacting in US dollars. 1 article
PostFinance PostFinance Ltd is a Swiss financial institution wholly owned by Swiss Post and designated systemically important by the SNB, accounting for approximately 60% of domestic payment transaction volume. 1 article
Raiffeisen Gruppe Schweiz Raiffeisen is Switzerland's second-largest banking group by market share, structured as a cooperative network of over 219 legally independent member banks with more than 2 million cooperative members and approximately 11,000 employees. 1 article
Schweizerische Bankiervereinigung The Swiss Bankers Association (SBA), founded in Basel in 1912, is the umbrella organisation representing approximately 265 Swiss banks and financial services providers, advocating for competitive framework conditions for the Swiss financial centre in politics, regulation, and public affairs. 1 article
SECO SECO (State Secretariat for Economic Affairs) is Switzerland's federal centre of excellence for economic and labour market policy, responsible for economic regulation, export controls, and the administration and enforcement of Swiss embargo and sanctions measures under the Embargogesetz (EmbG). 6 articles
Socfin Founded in 1905 and listed in Luxembourg, Socfin is an agricultural holding group specialising in the development and management of oil palm and rubber plantations, with operations across Central and West Africa and Southeast Asia. 1 article
Staatssekretariat für internationale Finanzfragen (SIF) The State Secretariat for International Finance (SIF) is a Swiss federal agency within the Federal Department of Finance responsible for representing Switzerland's interests in international financial, monetary, and tax matters, and for developing the regulatory and legislative basis for Swiss financial market policy. 1 article
Trafigura Founded in 1993, Trafigura is one of the world's largest physical commodities trading groups, trading oil, petroleum products, metals, minerals, gas, and power across more than 60 countries. 1 article
UBS AG UBS is Switzerland's largest bank and the only remaining G-SIB domiciled in Switzerland, formed by the 2023 government-brokered acquisition of Credit Suisse. 3 articles
WBF (Eidgenössisches Departement für Wirtschaft, Bildung und Forschung) The Swiss Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research is the federal department responsible for economic policy, trade, education, and research in Switzerland; it oversees SECO and holds delegated authority under the Embargo Act to maintain and update sanctions lists such as Annex 2 to the Sudan Ordinance by departmental decree. 1 article
Zürcher Kantonalbank Zürcher Kantonalbank (ZKB) is a universal bank wholly owned by the Canton of Zurich, designated systemically important by the SNB in 2013, with cantonal market shares of 35–40% in deposits and 30–35% in credit. 1 article

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