Snyk, the provider of Developer-First Cloud Native Application Security, has taken over DeepCode, a spin-off from ETH Zurich that offers semantic code analysis in real time based on artificial intelligence. The transaction was completed on November 5, 2020.
VISCHER advised Snyk on the Swiss legal aspects of this transaction, while Cooley (UK) acted as lead counsel. The team, led by partner Adrian Dörig (Corporate Finance – pictured) included Peter Kühn (Counsel, Corporate / M&A), Michel Stübi and Florian Angstmann (Associates, Corporate / M&A), Aleksandra Simic (Junior Associate, Corporate / M&A), Christian Wyss (Partner, IP), Jonas Gassmann (Managing Associate, IP) , Marc Ph. Prinz (Partner, Employment), Florian Schaub (Senior Associate, Employment), Christoph Niederer (Partner, Tax) and Patrik Fisch (Associate, Tax).