Key legal question
Whether the shareholder loan had to be treated as equity-substituting and excluded from ordinary bankruptcy ranking.
Extracted holding
The court held that Swiss law did not justify reclassifying the shareholder loan as equity merely because of its shareholder-related character; no basis existed to deny collocation on that ground.
Extracted reasoning
The doctrine of equity-substituting loans was foreign to current Swiss law. The decisive facts showed that the loan was granted for acquiring the WLL license, while no overindebtedness or sanation situation existed when it was made; the later insolvency triggered by unexpected litigation results did not retroactively change its character.