Acronis sells majority stake to EQT: the advisors
Walder Wyss acted as Swiss legal advisor to Acronis, a cybersecurity and data protection platform for managed service providers, in connection with a sale of a majority stake to the EQT X fund, advised by Bär & Karrer.
On August 7th, Acronis announced that EQT is acquiring a majority stake in the company, with founders, management and certain existing investors remaining as significant minority shareholders.
Walder Wyss team
The Walder Wyss team was led by partner, corporate/M&A Luc Defferrard (pictured left) and partner, corporate/M&A Stefan Knobloch (pictured right) and further included Timon Nydegger (managing associate, corporate/M&A), Valentin Wiesner (managing associate, finance), Dimitrios Berger (managing associate, corporate/M&A), Erik Lanz (associate, corporate/M&A), Martin Busenhart (partner, tax) and Janine Corti (counsel, tax).
Bär & Karrer’s team
Bär & Karrer acts as Swiss legal advisor to EQT in this transaction. The team is co-led by Christoph Neeracher (pictured below left) and Luca Jagmetti (pictured below right) and further includes Dieter Dubs, Philippe Seiler, Sebastian Sutter, Patrick Zumsteg, Sacha Kanoff, and Floris Zuur (all corporate/M&A), Susanne Schreiber (tax), Faton Aliu (financing), Thomas Stoltz, Fabian Turtschi and Özden Omürcan (all corporate/notarial services), Daniel Flühmann (regulatory), Mani Reinert and Tim Meyer (both antitrust), Ruth Bloch-Riemer and Stefan Bollinger (both pension), Laura Widmer and Manuel Schmid (both employment), Jonas Bornhauser (IP/IT), Rehana Harasgama (data protection), as well as Patrick Neher (real estate). Milbank acts as international legal advisor to EQT in this transaction.
About Acronis
Acronis is a global cyber protection company that provides natively integrated cybersecurity, data protection, and endpoint management for managed service providers, small and medium businesses, and enterprise IT departments.
