Federal Act
on the Amendment of the Swiss Civil Code
(Part Five: The Code of Obligations)

¹ A lim­ited part­ner­ship is a part­ner­ship in which two or more per­sons join to­geth­er in or­der to op­er­ate a trad­ing, man­u­fac­tur­ing or oth­er form of com­mer­cial busi­ness un­der a single busi­ness name in such a man­ner that at least one per­son is a gen­er­al part­ner with un­lim­ited li­ab­il­ity but one or more oth­ers are lim­ited part­ners li­able only up to the amount of their spe­cif­ic con­tri­bu­tions.

² Part­ners with un­lim­ited li­ab­il­ity must be nat­ur­al per­sons, but lim­ited part­ners may also be leg­al en­tit­ies and com­mer­cial en­ter­prises.

³ The part­ners must have the part­ner­ship entered in the com­mer­cial re­gister.