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Nominee or resident director in Switzerland

Swiss company law wants a reachable natural person on Swiss soil with the power to sign. Foreign founders meet that rule by appointing a professional who lives here — not by inventing a name.

Swiss company law wants a reachable natural person on Swiss soil with the power to sign. Foreign founders meet that rule by appointing a professional who lives here — not by inventing a name.

Call it a nominee if the word is familiar. Then set aside the offshore meaning: a person who never opens the mail. The Code of Obligations does not read service brochures. The person on the register is responsible.

A clean file has a written mandate, directors’ and officers’ cover, books the director can see, and an owner who accepts that their bank already knows who they are. That is not a slogan. It is how Swiss structures last.

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