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We live in a con­nec­ted glob­al en­vir­on­ment where the num­ber and com­plex­ity of in­ter­na­tion­al trans­ac­tions is ever in­creas­ing.  As a con­sequence, the policies and activ­it­ies in one area of the world can...

In­vest­ment com­pany GENUI and Magno­lia, a lead­ing soft­ware vendor in the glob­al di­git­al ex­per­i­ence and con­tent man­age­ment mar­kets, an­nounced that GENUI ac­quired a ma­jor­ity stake in Magno­lia and in­jects sig­ni­fic­ant growth cap­it­al in­to Magno­lia.Magno­lia is an emer­ging vendor pi­on­eer­ing the vis­ion of "com­pos­able" Di­git­al Ex­per­i­ence Plat­forms (DX­Ps). Magno­lia already serves cli­ents in more than 100 coun­tries through nine re­gion­al of­fices and counts many glob­al brands such as The New York Times, San­ofi, Sains­bury's, Ping An and Bechtle as its trus­ted cus­tom­ers. With the fund­ing, the com­pany will con­tin­ue the ex­pan­sion of its glob­al sales and mar­ket­ing foot­print in­clud­ing its tech­no­logy and chan­nel part­ner eco­sys­tems, ac­cel­er­ate product in­nov­a­tion and in­crease glob­al mar­ket aware­ness. GENUI is a com­pany foun­ded by renowned en­tre­pren­eurs and in­vest­ment pro­fes­sion­als who be­lieve in "Good En­tre­pren­eur­ship". GENUI ex­clus­ively makes long-term com­mit­ments to com­pan­ies with the goal of cre­at­ing sus­tain­able growth and so­cial value. Com­pan­ies are giv­en pro­fes­sion­al gov­ernance by get­ting ac­cess to en­tre­pren­eurs with in­dustry-rel­ev­ant ex­pert­ise and their cor­res­pond­ing net­works.A glob­al team led by Dr Daniel Jenny, CMS Switzer­land, provided com­pre­hens­ive leg­al ad­vice to GENUI in con­nec­tion with the trans­ac­tion.CMS Switzer­land Daniel Jenny, Part­ner, Cor­por­ate/M&ADirk Spacek, Part­ner, In­tel­lec­tu­al Prop­er­ty­Mark Ca­gi­enard, Part­ner, TaxKas­par Landolt, Part­ner, Bank­ing & Fin­anceAl­ex­an­dra Stock­er, As­so­ci­ate, Cor­por­ate/M&APas­cal Stock­er, As­so­ci­ate, Cor­por­ate/M&AFerdin­and Blezinger, As­so­ci­ate, Cor­por­ate/M&AChristina Winter, As­so­ci­ate, Em­ploy­ment­Patrick Ne­her, At­tor­ney Train­ee, Real Es­tateS­ab­rina Djord­jevic, Trade­mark Ad­min­is­trat­or, In­tel­lec­tu­al Prop­er­tyCMS Singa­pore­Toby Grainger, Part­ner­Leslie Tay, As­so­ci­ateS­am Ng, Of-Coun­sel­CMS Spain Ig­an­cio Za­r­za­le­jos, Part­ner­Ana Vázquez Re­cio, As­so­ci­ateP­il­ar Be­cer­ril An­drada-Vander­wilde, Train­eeCMS Czech Re­pub­licHelen Rod­well, Part­ner­Monika Hospudkova, As­so­ci­ateCMS UK­Tom Jameson, Part­nerSarah Kensell, As­so­ci­ateZoe Loftus-Bell, Seni­or Paralegal­Fae­gre Drink­er US­A­Luc At­tlan, Part­ner­Ash­lee M. Ger­many, As­so­ci­ate­David Kay, Seni­or Coun­selVILAF Vi­et­namNgo Thanh Tung, PartnerEsko Cate, As­so­ci­ateN­guy­en Ph­oung Ngan, Coun­sel 

In­tro­duc­tion Bolar pro­vi­sions, named after the US law en­acted to over­turn a court rul­ing which had held that the USA did not provide for a re­search ex­emp­tion (see Roche Products, Inc. v. Bolar Phar­ma­ceut­ic­al...

SER­CAB SA, Proserto SA and VAL'HEURE SA – Swiss lead­ing com­pan­ies act­ive in the gem­stone cut­ting and set­ting in­dustry for over 30 years – merged by way of ab­sorp­tion giv­ing ori­gin to a new SER­CAB GROUP SA, based in Geneva, with more than 200 em­ploy­ees. This stra­tegic mer­ger aims at con­sol­id­at­ing the po­s­i­tion of the three com­pan­ies in the Swiss mar­ket of gem­stones cut­ting and set­ting for the in­dustry of lux­ury watches and jew­elry.CMS Part­ner, Jérôme Lev­rat, as­sisted the three com­pan­ies and their share­hold­ers in this com­plex tri-partite mer­ger, and handled all as­pects of the trans­ac­tion, in­clud­ing the share­hold­ers agree­ment and all satel­lite agree­ments.

CMS has a ded­ic­ated team of leg­al spe­cial­ists to ad­vise on State aid-re­lated mat­ters. Our State aid spe­cial­ist law­yers take a thor­ough ap­proach to leg­al de­tail and can also stand back and take a wider...

Viv­alto Santé has ac­quired a ma­jor­ity stake in Groupe CIC Santé, a group foun­ded in 2007 by Dr. Maire, which op­er­ates three clin­ics in Switzer­land, spe­cific­ally in can­ton of Vaud and Val­ais, as well as a stake in RX­PM, a com­pany also en­tirely owned by Dr. Maire which op­er­ates in the field of ra­di­ology. This trans­ac­tion will al­low Viv­alto Santé to es­tab­lish it­self in Switzer­land and to ac­cel­er­ate its sig­ni­fic­ant in­ter­na­tion­al de­vel­op­ment. This in­vest­ment, along with the re­sources that Viv­alto Santé will mo­bil­ise, will en­able Groupe CIC Santé to strengthen its or­gan­isa­tion and con­tin­ue to de­vel­op new clin­ics in line with pa­tient­s' ex­pect­a­tions.The CMS team ad­vising on the French law as­pects of this trans­ac­tion con­sisted of Arnaud Hugot, part­ner, and Ant­oine Mel­chi­or, as­so­ci­ate, for the cor­por­ate/M&A as­pects and Laurent Hepp, part­ner, and Am­broise Roux, as­so­ci­ate, for the tax as­pects.The CMS team ad­vising on the Swiss law as­pects con­sisted of Dr. Pas­cal Favre, part­ner, and Audrey Dur­and, as­so­ci­ate, for the Cor­por­ate/M&A as­pects and An­drio Orler, part­ner, for the tax law as­pects. Viv­alto Santé was ad­vised by PwC for the fin­an­cial audit.The sellers were ad­vised by Dupraz Sulc, rep­res­en­ted by Timo Sulc, part­ner.CMS Switzer­land­Dr Pas­cal Favre, Part­ner, Cor­por­ate/M&AAudrey Dur­and, As­so­ci­ate, Cor­por­ate/M&AAndrio Orler, Part­ner, Tax law­CMS FranceArnaud Hugot, Part­ner, Cor­por­ate/M&AAn­toine Mel­chi­or, As­so­ci­ate, Cor­por­ate/M&ALaurent Hepp, Part­ner, Tax lawAm­broise Roux, As­so­ci­ate, Tax law

Cham­bers and Part­ners has pub­lished its rank­ings of lead­ing law firms and law­yers in the High Net Worth Guide 2022. Our firm and our law­yers are lis­ted in both rank­ings for Switzer­land.