(1) The following legal entities may change their legal form:
1. registered civil law partnerships, commercial partnerships (general partnership, partly limited partnership) and professional partnerships;
2. share capital companies (section 3 (1) no. 2);
3. registered cooperative societies;
4. associations having legal personality;
5. mutual insurance companies;
6. corporations under public law and public-law institutions.
(2) Legal entities having a new legal form may be the following:
1. registered civil law partnerships, commercial partnerships (general partnership, partly limited partnership) and professional partnerships;
2. share capital companies;
3. registered cooperative societies.
(3) It is also possible for dissolved legal entities to change their legal form if it were possible to adopt a resolution to continue these legal entities in the legal form they had thus far.