This volume deals with the panorama of partnerships in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. It explains the motives, background and main features of the major reform in Germany through the MoPeG (Act on the Modernization of Partnership Law) as well as the deviating taxonomies of Austrian and Swiss law. Fundamental issues such as the numerus clausus of company and partnership forms, legal protection agains unlawful member resolutions and the interpretation of partnership agreements are dealt with in detail. There are also special issues relating to the dissolution of partnerships, their conversion into corporations and the appropriate treatment of public partnerships and shareholders' agreements.