Federal Act
on Debt Enforcement and Bankruptcy
(DEBA)¹

¹ Debt en­force­ment pro­ceed­ings are con­tin­ued by way of bank­ruptcy pro­ceed­ings, either in the form of "or­din­ary bank­ruptcy pro­ceed­ings" (Arts 159–176) or of "debt en­force­ment pro­ceed­ings based on a bill of ex­change" (Arts 177–189) if the debt­or is re­gistered in the Com­mer­cial Re­gister as any of the fol­low­ing:

1.

as the own­er of a sole pro­pri­et­or­ship (Arts 934 and 935 CO⁶⁷);

2.

as a mem­ber of a gen­er­al part­ner­ship (Art. 554 CO);

3.

as a mem­ber of a lim­ited part­ner­ship with un­lim­ited li­ab­il­ity (Art. 596 CO);

4.

as a dir­ect­or of a part­ner­ship lim­ited by shares (Art. 765 CO);

5.⁶⁸

...

6.

as a gen­er­al part­ner­ship (Art. 552 CO);

7.

as a lim­ited part­ner­ship (Art. 594 CO);

8.

as a com­pany lim­ited by shares or a part­ner­ship lim­ited by shares (Arts 620 and 764 CO);

9.

as a lim­ited li­ab­il­ity com­pany (Art. 772 CO);

10.

as a co­oper­at­ive (Art. 828 CO);

11.

as an as­so­ci­ation (Art. 60 Swiss Civil Code (CC)⁶⁹);

12.

as a found­a­tion (Art. 80 CC);

13.⁷⁰

as an in­vest­ment com­pany with vari­able cap­it­al (Art. 36 Col­lect­ive In­vest­ments Act of 23 June 2006⁷¹ (CISA));

14.⁷²

as a lim­ited part­ner­ship for col­lect­ive in­vest­ment (Art. 98 CISA).⁷³

² …⁷⁴

³ Re­gis­tra­tion takes ef­fect on the day after no­tice there­of in pub­lished in the Swiss Of­fi­cial Gaz­ette of Com­merce.