Independent private bank Cité Gestion merged with Geneva based multi-family office Sartus Capital expending its total asset under management around CHF 7 billion. Sartus Capital was founded in 2016 and acquired by its management in 2021. From the other side, Cité Gestion was founded in 2009 as an independent asset manager before being authorized as […]
As we have informed here, the Helsinn Group has closed a financing agreement with Oberland Capital Management. In this sense, VISCHER has advised Oberland Capital Management on its financing agreement with the Ticino based group. Oberland Capital is a private investment firm with assets under management in excess of USD 3 bn, focused exclusively on investing […]
Homburger has advised Raiffeisen Schweiz Genossenschaft on all legal, regulatory and tax aspects of the spin-off of its 6 branches into independent Raiffeisen banks. The team was led by René Bösch (financial market regulation) and included Benjamin Leisinger (financial market regulation, pictured), Dieter Grünblatt (tax), Andrea Widmer Grimm (corporate), Peter Müller (tax), Laura Müller and […]
Swiss proptech Properti has successfully completed its Pre-Series A financing round. The startup received a total of CHF three million. This brings the company’s total capital raised in the past 12 months to over CHF 10 million. Postfinance Ventures leads the round as a new investor, and existing investors Migros and Serpentine Ventures participate again. […]
Niederer Kraft Frey advised Diebold Self-Service Solutions, a member of the Diebold Nixdorf group, as Swiss counsel on the refinancing of certain debt and on the provision of USD 400 million in new capital for the company. The capital will help to normalize operations, meet supplier commitments, execute their operating model and make strategic investments […]
UBS Group successfully completed its issuance of USD 1.75 bn in aggregate principal amount of Fixed Rate/Fixed Rate Callable Senior Notes due January 2027 and USD 2.25 bn in aggregate principal amount of Fixed Rate/Fixed Rate Callable Senior Notes due January 2034 under its Senior Debt Programme. The Notes are bail-inable (TLAC) bonds that are eligible to count towards […]
Advestra advised a group of finance parties as to matters of Swiss law on the refinancing of certain debt and on the provision of USD 400 million in new capital for Diebold Nixdorf, Incorporated. These transactions include the completion of Diebold Nixdorf’s previously announced exchange offer and consent solicitation with respect to its outstanding 8.50% Senior Notes due 2024 and the completion […]
On January 5, 2023, BioVersys announced that the AMR Action Fund has joined existing investors of BioVersys, extending the total proceeds of the Series C round to CHF 32.6 million. The Swiss pharma company represents the first European-based investment of the AMR Action Fund. The funds will go towards further trials of the pharmaceutical company’s […]
Resistell, a leader in phenotypic nanomotion technology for measuring living cells, based in Muttenz, Switzerland, has taken another major step to achieving its vision by closing a first tranche of its series B financing round raising CHF 8.5million from new and existing investors. Investors include EIC Fund, TRUMPF Venture, OCCIDENT, Zürcher Kantonalbank, Launchpad, and private […]
Transports publics fribourgeois Trafic (TPF TRAFIC) has closed the financing of the acquisition of train carriages. The financing was made through a CHF 32 million private placement. Walder Wyss has advised TPF on the financing. The team included partner Alexandre Both (corporate/m&a, pictured left) and partner Fabienne Limacher (tax, pictured right).