AS Equity Partners acquires Swiss Post Solutions. The advisors

AS Equity Partners acquired the SPS Group from Die Schweizerische Post (Swiss Post). SPS is a global full-service provider of physical and digital document management and provides a comprehensive suite of Document Processing and Business Process Services. AS Equity Partners exclusively targets control investments in the lower to middle-market for software, technology, and technology enabled businesses across Europe.

Credit Suisse (Switzerland) acted as arranger, agent, security agent and original lender, on the financing of AS Equity Partners’ acquisition of SPS Post Solutions from Swiss Post at an enterprise value of CHF 375 million.

Bär & Karrer acted as legal advisor to AS Equity Partners in this transaction. The team of Bär & Karrer was led by partners Christoph Neeracher (pictured top right) and Philippe Seiler (pictured top left) and included partner Thomas Rohde and associate Luana Stämpfli (all m&a), partner Ralph Malacrida, associate Faton Aliu and junior associate Nico Hunziker (all financing), partner Markus Wang and counsel Jonas Bornhauser (both IP/IT), partner Corrado Rampini and associate Kilian Müller (both real estate), partner Daniel Flühmann and associate Sarah Vettiger (both regulatory) as well as partner Mani Reinert antitrust).

Niederer Kraft Frey advised Credit Suisse (Switzerland) on this transaction. The NKF team was led by partner Adrian Koller (m&a/finance, pictured above), working with partners Till Spillmann and Philip Spoerlé and junior associate Carlotta Ulmer (all m&a/finance) as well as partner Markus Kronauer (tax).

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