Key legal question
Whether the shareholder loans had to be treated as equity or otherwise excluded from collocation as 'capital replacing' financing.
Extracted holding
Swiss law did not allow requalification of the shareholder loans into equity in this case.
Extracted reasoning
The court held that the doctrinal figure of the 'capital replacing loan' is foreign to current Swiss law; shareholder duties are limited to capital contribution and specific statutory rules on reserves, repayment restrictions, hidden distributions and share capital interest.