The Zurich-based Hasler Werke Foundation, majority owner of Ascom AG, says it wants to change its statutes so that future partners could more easily take equity stakes in the troubled Swiss telecommunications equipment company: the foundation’s current rules restrict Ascom’s ability to raise capital or enter into co-operation agreements that involve an equity stake; We want to create the possibility so that partners can take a stake in Ascom, Jaeger told Reuter; Hasler Werke owns 54% of Ascom’s votes and the statutes say that it must own a majority of Ascom, formed in 1987.
