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  "title": "The Good Board",
  "description": "A Reference on Good Corporate Governance under Swiss Law. Authored by Jonas Hertner.",
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  "feed_url": "https://thegoodboard.ch/feed.json",
  "language": "en",
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  "authors": [
    {
      "name": "Jonas Hertner",
      "url": "https://jonashertner.com"
    }
  ],
  "items": [
    {
      "id": "https://thegoodboard.ch/changelog/#2026-05-21",
      "url": "https://thegoodboard.ch/changelog/#2026-05-21",
      "title": "Post-release polish",
      "summary": "Tornetta v. Musk: Delaware Supreme Court reversal pinned to its precise date (19 December 2025). Draft badges removed from the home and reference indexes. Search index regenerated.",
      "date_published": "2026-05-21T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://thegoodboard.ch/changelog/#2026-05-05",
      "url": "https://thegoodboard.ch/changelog/#2026-05-05",
      "title": "First edition",
      "summary": "The Good Board is published as a first edition: eight reference articles, six commentary entries, fourteen agenda briefings, eight prompts, a glossary, and search across the English corpus. DE / FR / IT / RM mirrors at translation-draft state.",
      "date_published": "2026-05-05T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://thegoodboard.ch/commentary/4a-62-2024/",
      "url": "https://thegoodboard.ch/commentary/4a-62-2024/",
      "title": "4A_62/2024 — Reserves, Distributions, and the Reach of the De Facto Director",
      "summary": "Commentary on Bundesgericht 4A_62/2024 (17 December 2024), the Papierschlamm case. Personal liability under Art. 754 OR for the formal director and for the accounting-firm partner who acted as de facto director, for distributing CHF 2.15m while an environmental liability of CHF 8.55m was foreseeable.",
      "date_published": "2026-05-05T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://thegoodboard.ch/commentary/arag-garmenbeck/",
      "url": "https://thegoodboard.ch/commentary/arag-garmenbeck/",
      "title": "ARAG/Garmenbeck (BGH 1997) — A Swiss Reading",
      "summary": "The German Bundesgerichtshof's landmark ruling on the supervisory board's duty to pursue claims against executive directors, transposed to Swiss Verwaltungsrat discretion under Art. 717 and 754 OR.",
      "date_published": "2026-05-05T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://thegoodboard.ch/commentary/bge-151-iv-258/",
      "url": "https://thegoodboard.ch/commentary/bge-151-iv-258/",
      "title": "BGE 151 IV 258 — The Over-Indebted Single-Person AG as Victim of Unfaithful Management",
      "summary": "Commentary on BGE 151 IV 258 (2025): the Swiss Federal Supreme Court overrules its earlier approach and holds that an over-indebted single-person AG can still be harmed in the sense of Art. 158 StGB when its assets are reduced contrary to fiduciary duty.",
      "date_published": "2026-05-05T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://thegoodboard.ch/commentary/bti-v-sequana/",
      "url": "https://thegoodboard.ch/commentary/bti-v-sequana/",
      "title": "BTI 2014 LLC v Sequana SA (UKSC 2022) — A Swiss Reading",
      "summary": "The UK Supreme Court's landmark ruling on directors' duty to creditors, transposed to Swiss law. Where UK doctrine now turns on the verge-of-insolvency trigger, Swiss Art. 717/754 OR engages earlier through the duty to form reserves for foreseeable liabilities.",
      "date_published": "2026-05-05T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://thegoodboard.ch/commentary/marchand-v-barnhill/",
      "url": "https://thegoodboard.ch/commentary/marchand-v-barnhill/",
      "title": "Marchand v. Barnhill (Del. 2019) — A Swiss Reading",
      "summary": "The Delaware Supreme Court's revival of Caremark oversight liability, transposed to Swiss law. Where Delaware requires bad faith, Swiss Art. 716a/717 OR imposes an objective care standard — and reaches de facto directors that Caremark cannot.",
      "date_published": "2026-05-05T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://thegoodboard.ch/commentary/tornetta-v-musk/",
      "url": "https://thegoodboard.ch/commentary/tornetta-v-musk/",
      "title": "Tornetta v. Musk (Del. Ch. 2024) — A Swiss Reading",
      "summary": "The Delaware Court of Chancery's rescission of the $55.8bn Musk compensation package, transposed to Swiss law's ex-ante procedural gates for listed-company executive compensation under Art. 732–735c OR.",
      "date_published": "2026-05-05T00:00:00Z"
    }
  ]
}