Vantage Education Group completes comprehensive refinancing

Vantage Education Group, one of the leading providers of education and training in Switzerland, has completed an extensive refinancing, with UBS Switzerland acting as mandated lead arranger, agent, security agent and original lender, and Berner Kantonalbank, Credit Suisse Switzerland and Zuger Kantonalbank acting as original lenders.

Vantage unites 3 strong educational companies under one roof and accompanies more than 5000 students at 13 locations on their educational journey. The group is one of the leading providers of private education in the areas of business administration and management, marketing, IT and tourism, especially in the area of higher technical colleges (HF).

Niederer Kraft Frey has advised Vantage Education Group in connection with its comprehensive refinancing. The NKF team was led by partner Adrian Koller (corporate/m&a, finance) working with junior associates Carlotta Ulmer and Reto Seiler (both corporate/m&a, Finance) as well as partner Markus Kronauer (tax).

From the other side, Advestra advised UBS Switzer­land as man­dated lead arranger, agent, secur­ity agent and ori­gin­al lender as well as the oth­er mem­bers of the bank­ing syn­dic­ate, Bern­er Kan­ton­al­bank, Cred­it Suisse Switzer­land and Zuger Kan­ton­al­bank, on the com­pre­hens­ive refin­an­cing.The team included Alex­an­der von Jein­sen (pictured), Alex­an­der Fisch, Annina Ham­mer and Levy Corba (all Fin­an­cing) as well as Céline Mar­tin (Tax).