VASS, a port­fo­lio com­pany of private equity firm One Equity Part­ners, entered in­to a share pur­chase agree­ment, which con­tem­plates the ac­quis­i­tion of One In­side.Through the part­ner­ship with One In­side VASS strengthens its ex­pert­ise in Adobe tech­no­logy and enters in­to the Swiss mar­ket. One In­side in re­turn wins a strong European part­ner in or­der to of­fer di­git­al­iz­a­tion pro­jects from strategy to ex­e­cu­tion. To­geth­er the en­ter­prises of­fer their cus­tom­ers a com­pre­hens­ive port­fo­lio of IT solu­tions on an in­ter­na­tion­al basis.One In­side was foun­ded 1998 in Switzer­land and of­fers IT con­sult­ing. In par­tic­u­lar, One In­side cre­ates ex­traordin­ary cus­tom­er ex­per­i­ences for its cli­ents fo­cus­ing on Adobe solu­tions. One In­side em­ploys more than 70 ex­perts at 5 dif­fer­ent loc­a­tions in Switzer­land, Ger­many and North Mace­do­nia and of­fers ser­vices to a num­ber of renowned Swiss cus­tom­ers.VASS is a lead­ing European IT con­sult­ing en­ter­prise with its roots in Spain, now present in 21 coun­tries world­wide, fo­cus­ing on di­git­al­iz­a­tion. Part­ner­ing with One In­side is part of VASS' com­pre­hens­ive M&A strategy to form a European cham­pi­on in CX con­sult­ing. For 2022, the now ex­ten­ded VASS group ex­pects sales of more than EUR 260'000'000.A CMS team led by Dr Daniel Jenny ad­vised the share­hold­ers of One In­side on all leg­al and tax mat­ters in con­nec­tion with the trans­ac­tion.CMS Switzer­land­Dr Daniel Jenny, Part­ner, Cor­por­ate / M&AM­ark Ca­gi­enard, Part­ner, TaxDr Ferdin­and Blezinger, As­so­ci­ate, Cor­por­ate / M&ACMS North Mace­do­niaMar­ija Fili­povska, Part­ner­in, Cor­por­ate / M&AAleksandar Josimovski, At­tor­ney-at-law, Cor­por­ate / M&AAleksandar Kralevski, As­so­ci­ate, Cor­por­ate / M&AZlatko Kujun­djiski, As­so­ci­ate, Com­pet­i­tion­CMS Ger­manyDr Chris­toph Lächler, Part­ner, Cor­por­ate / M&AChristina Hauß­mann, Seni­or As­so­ci­ate, Cor­por­ate / M&AAndreas Kaz­maier, As­so­ci­ate, Cor­por­ate / M&A

Rank­ings of CMS Switzer­land in The Leg­al 500 EMEA 2022 edi­tion

In­fopro Di­git­al, a lead­ing European B2B group spe­cial­ised in in­form­a­tion and tech­no­logy, ac­quires Bind­ex­is AG from NZZ.Bind­ex­is AG fo­cuses on the mon­it­or­ing and lead gen­er­a­tion of con­struc­tion pro­jects. The com­pany is headquartered in Basel.The ac­quis­i­tion of Bind­ex­is AG is part of In­fopro Di­git­al's in­ter­na­tion­al­isa­tion strategy and strengthens its European lead­er­ship in mon­it­or­ing and lead gen­er­a­tion for con­struc­tion pro­jects. In­fopro Di­git­al already owns eight lead­ing plat­forms across eight ma­jor European mar­kets.In­fopro Di­git­al is present in 17 coun­tries and em­ploys more than 4,000 people. In­fopro Di­git­al's in­nov­at­ive solu­tions are aimed at pro­fes­sion­als in five key busi­ness sec­tors: con­struc­tion and pub­lic sec­tor, auto­mot­ive, in­dustry, in­sur­ance and fin­ance, as well as re­tail.A team from CMS Switzer­land, led by Daniel Jenny, ad­vised In­fopro Di­git­al on all leg­al mat­ters of the trans­ac­tion.CMS Switzer­land­Dr Daniel Jenny, Part­ner, Cor­por­ate/ M&APas­cal Stock­er, As­so­ci­ate, Cor­por­ate/ M&AAl­ex­an­dra Stock­er, As­so­ci­ate, Cor­por­ate/ M&ADr Dirk Spacek, Part­ner, IP / IT / Com­mer­cial­Chris­ti­an Gers­bach, Part­ner, Em­ploy­ment­Tho­mas Zweifel, As­so­ci­ate, Real Es­tate­Patrick Ne­her, Train­ee, Com­mer­cial­CMS Ukraine­Tetyana Dovgan, Part­ner, Cor­por­ate/ M&AM­ari­ana Saien­ko, Seni­or As­so­ci­ate, Cor­por­ate/ M&AMykola Heletiy, Seni­or As­so­ci­ate, Em­ploy­ment­Denys Hat­seni­uk, Law­yer, Cor­por­ate/ M&A

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

Cham­bers and Part­ners has pub­lished its rank­ings of the world's lead­ing law firms and law­yers in the Glob­al Guide 2022. Our firm is again lis­ted in both rank­ings for Switzer­land.

Xebia, a port­fo­lio com­pany of the private equity firm Wa­ter­land, entered in­to a share pur­chase agree­ment con­cern­ing the ac­quis­i­tion of Swis­sQ.The part­ner­ship with Swis­sQ will ex­tend Xebi­a's geo­graph­ic­al reach in­to Switzer­land, while Swis­sQ will gain off­shore and nearshore cap­ab­il­it­ies. Over­all, the trans­ac­tion will res­ult in ac­cess to a com­bined 4'000 tech­nic­al ex­perts world­wide in the areas of data, AI, cloud, De­vOps, SRE as well as soft­ware de­vel­op­ment for of­fer­ing ser­vices to a joint cus­tom­er base.Foun­ded in 2006, Swis­sQ Con­sult­ing AG is an IT con­sult­ing and train­ing com­pany, which also or­gan­izes renowned tech­no­logy con­fer­ences in Switzer­land. Swis­sQ Con­sult­ing AG em­ploys more than 120 ex­perts at of­fices in Zurich and Bern and of­fers ser­vices to a num­ber of renowned cus­tom­ers.Xebia is a glob­ally lead­ing di­git­al full-ser­vice con­sult­ing en­ter­prise with its head of­fice in the Neth­er­lands. Xebia em­ploys more than 4'000 ex­perts glob­ally.A CMS team led by Dr Daniel Jenny ad­vised the share­hold­ers of Swis­sQ Con­sult­ing AG on all leg­al and tax mat­ters in con­nec­tion with the trans­ac­tion.CMS Switzer­land­Dr Daniel Jenny, Part­ner, Cor­por­ate / M&AM­ark Ca­gi­enard, Part­ner, Tax­Chris­ti­an Gers­bach, Part­ner, Em­ploy­ment­Dr Ferdin­and Blezinger, As­so­ci­ate, Cor­por­ate / M&AFlori­an Jung, As­so­ci­ate, Cor­por­ate / M&AJens Lehmann, As­so­ci­ate, Tax­Tarik Salkim, At­tor­ney Train­eeCMS Am­s­ter­damPi­eter van Duijven­voorde, Part­ner, Cor­por­ate / M&A

Thomas Re­ister has sold his ma­jor­ity stake in the emo­drom Group to his co-share­hold­ers.The emo­drom Group is in­volved in the mar­ket­ing and stra­tegic de­vel­op­ment of the Hock­en­heim­ring ra­cing cir­cuit in Hock­en­heim, Baden-Württem­berg (Ger­many). The emo­drom Group sup­ports the loc­a­tion of com­pan­ies (in­clud­ing Porsche) on the ra­cing cir­cuit, es­tab­lishes its own mo­bil­ity-re­lated busi­nesses there and oth­er­wise mar­kets the ra­cing cir­cuit for events.Un­der the lead­er­ship of Thomas Re­ister, the emo­drom Group has suc­cess­fully eman­cip­ated the Hock­en­heim­ring from pure ra­cing (formerly For­mula 1) in the last 10 years, des­pite dif­fi­cult start­ing con­di­tions. In­stead of ex­clus­ively ra­cing, the Hock­en­heim­ring now of­fers a wide range of ser­vices and ex­per­i­ences re­lated to mo­bil­ity. A CMS team led by Dr Daniel Jenny provided com­pre­hens­ive leg­al ad­vice to Thomas Re­ister in con­nec­tion with the trans­ac­tion. Team­Dr Daniel Jenny, Part­ner, Cor­por­ate / M&AM­ark Ca­gi­enard, Part­ner, TaxDr Si­mone Brauch­bar Birkhäuser, Coun­sel, In­tel­lec­tu­al Prop­er­ty­Dr Ferdin­and Blezinger, As­so­ci­ate, Cor­por­ate / M&AFlori­an Jung, As­so­ci­ate, Cor­por­ate / M&AT­arik Salkim, Train­ee

NORRES, a port­fo­lio com­pany of Tri­ton Smal­ler Mid-Cap Fund I, ac­quired the Bag­ger­man Group. The parties have agreed not to dis­close the pur­chase price.The Bag­ger­man Group, headquartered in Ro­er­mond, Neth­er­lands, is a spe­cial­ist man­u­fac­turer of in­dus­tri­al hoses, coup­lings and re­lated parts. The com­pany has sub­si­di­ar­ies in Italy, Switzer­land, Hun­gary and Ro­mania.NORRES is one of the mar­ket-lead­ing man­u­fac­tur­ers of in­dus­tri­al plastic hoses in Europe. It has pro­duc­tion fa­cil­it­ies in Ger­many, China, the US and Italy and dis­tri­bu­tion and ware­house loc­a­tions in the Czech Re­pub­lic, France, Po­land, Sweden, Taiwan and the UK. The com­pany, foun­ded in 1889, em­ploys ap­prox­im­ately 300 people world­wide.Since Novem­ber 2018, NORRES Sch­lauch­tech­nik has been part of the port­fo­lio of the Tri­ton Smal­ler Mid-Cap Fund I ad­vised by Tri­ton, an in­vest­ment firm that in­vests primar­ily in Ger­man-speak­ing coun­tries, the Nor­d­ic coun­tries, the Be­ne­lux re­gion, France, Italy, Spain and the United King­dom in the in­dustry & tech­no­logy, ser­vices, health­care and con­sumer goods sec­tors.A team of CMS Switzer­land and CMS Italy, led by Dr Daniel Jenny, ad­vised NORRES on all Swiss and Itali­an law as­pects of the trans­ac­tion. May­er Brown, Frank­furt, ac­ted as lead coun­sel to NORRES.CMS Switzer­land­Dr Daniel Jenny, Part­ner, Cor­por­ate / M&ADr Si­mone Brauch­bar Birkhäuser, Coun­sel, IP­Dr Ferdin­and Blezinger, As­so­ci­ate, Cor­por­ate / M&AKatja Bertsche, As­so­ci­ate, Real Es­tate­M­ar­zia Schil­leci, As­so­ci­ate, Em­ploy­mentCMS Ita­lyDaniela Murer, Part­ner, Cor­por­ate / M&AElsa Mora, Coun­sel, Em­ploy­mentA­less­andra Cuni, As­so­ci­ate, Cor­por­ate / M&AN­icoletta Catan­zaro, Ju­ni­or As­so­ci­ate, Cor­por­ate / M&A

Mu­nich – WOW Tech Group and Love­honey, two of the glob­al lead­ers for sexu­al well­ness products, join forces. To­geth­er with Swiss brand Amor­ana – ac­quired by Love­honey in 2020 – they now form the...

In the course of a fin­an­cing round of Spear­head AG, in­ter­na­tion­al ex­pert or­gan­iz­a­tion DEKRA has in­ves­ted in the com­pany. Spear­head serves in­sur­ance com­pan­ies, vehicle fleets, and fleet op­er­at­ors with sys­tems for 100% di­git­al pro­cessing of vehicle dam­ages. Spear­head’s busi­ness mod­el fo­cuses on di­git­al pro­cesses for claims set­tle­ment, from the dam­age re­port to fi­nal claim reg­u­la­tion. A crit­ic­al com­pon­ent is a telemat­ics solu­tion, which 100% auto­mat­ic­ally cre­ates a first no­ti­fic­a­tion of loss by Spear­head after an ac­ci­dent and makes it avail­able to cus­tom­ers.DEKRA has been act­ive in the field of safety for al­most 100 years. Foun­ded in 1925 in Ber­lin as Deutscher Kraft­fahrzeug-Über­wachungs-Ver­ein e.V., it is today one of the world’s lead­ing ex­pert or­gan­iz­a­tions. DEKRA SE is a sub­si­di­ary of DEKRA e.V. and man­ages the Group’s op­er­at­ing busi­ness. In 2020, DEKRA gen­er­ated turnover totalling al­most EUR 3.2 bil­lion. The com­pany cur­rently em­ploys around 44,000 people in ap­prox­im­ately 60 coun­tries on all con­tin­ents. With qual­i­fied and in­de­pend­ent ex­pert ser­vices, they work for safety on the road, at work and at home. These ser­vices range from vehicle in­spec­tion and ex­pert ap­prais­als to claims ser­vices, in­dus­tri­al and build­ing in­spec­tions, safety con­sultancy, test­ing and cer­ti­fic­a­tion of products and sys­tems, as well as train­ing courses and tem­por­ary work. The vis­ion for the com­pany’s 100th birth­day in 2025 is that DEKRA will be the glob­al part­ner for a safe, se­cure, and sus­tain­able world. With a plat­in­um rat­ing from Eco­Vadis, DEKRA is now in the top one per­cent of sus­tain­able busi­nesses ranked.A team of CMS led by part­ner Dr Daniel Jenny and as­so­ci­ate Flori­an Jung ad­vised Spear­head on all leg­al mat­ters of the in­vest­ment round.CMS Switzer­land­Dr Daniel Jenny, Part­ner, Cor­por­ate / M&AFlori­an Jung, As­so­ci­ate, Cor­por­ate / M&AAndrea Relly, As­so­ci­ate, Cor­por­ate / M&AChris­ti­an Gers­bach, Part­ner, Em­ploy­ment­Sarah Keller, As­so­ci­ate, Em­ploy­ment­Si­mone Brauch­bar Birkhäuser, Coun­sel, IP­Mark Ca­gi­enard, Part­ner, Tax