Kellerhals Carrard with RIVR on acquisition by Amazon
Kellerhals Carrard advised RIVR — a Zurich-based autonomous robotics startup spun out of the Robotic Systems Lab of Professor Marco Hutter at ETH Zürich and now part of Amazon — as the company raised a total of USD 25 million, including a USD 22.2 million seed round led by Bezos Expeditions and HSG (Sequoia’s Chinese arm), with co-investment from Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund, ARMADA Investment AG (Zurich), and Linear Capital (Shanghai).
Goodwin Procter supported on all US law aspects of the deal. Moreover, Kellerhals Carrard’s China Desk, led by the firm Shanghai office, worked with HSG and Linear Capital among RIVR’s investors.
The Kellerhals Carrard team
Partner Karim Maizar (VC/M&A, pictured) led the Kellerhals Carrard core team on the matter, working alongside partner Umberto Milano (VC/M&A), partner Michèle Remund (tax), partner Luana Stämpfli (VC/M&A), counsel Cheng Chen (China Desk, VC/M&A), partner Rehana Harasgama-Zehnder (data privacy), senior associate Norbert Schenk (VC/M&A), counsel Céline Schmid (employment), senior associate Vera Vallone (intellectual property), and legal advisor Klara Sophie Weismann (VC/M&A).
