Trust (Treuhänderschaft) in Liechtenstein

Liechtenstein took the trust into its general civil law in 1926 and remains the exception among continental European jurisdictions for doing so. A Treuhänderschaft is not a legal person: it has no assets and no organs of its own, but a trustee who holds property in their own name for beneficiaries.

What follows is what a profile page must leave out. A trust has no shareholders, no share capital and no seat in the corporate sense; describing it in those categories describes something else.

A trust is entered in the register only where the trust deed provides for it or the law requires it; otherwise deposit suffices. As with foundations, the register therefore shows only a slice.