{"id":6646,"date":"2019-12-05T13:33:10","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T12:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thouvenin.com\/?p=6646"},"modified":"2019-12-05T13:33:10","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T12:33:10","slug":"distribution-newsletter-switzerland-goodwill-indemnity-for-distributors-remains-an-exception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thouvenin.com\/en\/distribution-newsletter-switzerland-goodwill-indemnity-for-distributors-remains-an-exception\/","title":{"rendered":"Distribution Newsletter Switzerland: Goodwill indemnity for distributors remains an exception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a landmark decision of 2008, the Swiss Federal Supreme Court had ruled for the first time that, under certain circumstances, exclusive distributors have a mandatory claim for goodwill indemnity upon termination of the distribution agreement. This had been the first case in which a Swiss court had accepted to apply by analogy the agency law provision regarding goodwill indemnity to distributors, and to award such indemnity to a distributor.<\/p>\n<p>In a recently published decision of 8 October 2019, the Supreme Court confirmed the principles of its case law established in 2008. The Supreme Court however denied a goodwill indemnity to the distributor in the case before it, thereby upholding the decision of the lower court. This new decision once again confirms that a goodwill indemnity for distributors is and remains an exception under Swiss law.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a class=\"file-link\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thouvenin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2019-12-05-Distribution-Newsletter.pdf\">2019-12-05-Distribution-Newsletter.pdf <span class=\"file-info\">(pdf 43 KB)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Distribution Newsletter Switzerland: Goodwill indemnity for distributors remains an exception<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":6219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with 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