An in­ter­na­tion­al team led by Stefan Brunnsch­weiler (CMS Switzer­land) in co­oper­a­tion with CMS UK and Min­ter­El­lis­on in Aus­tralia has ad­vised FRVR on all mat­ters re­lat­ing to the ac­quis­i­tion by FRVR of the free-to-play first-per­son shoot­er Krunker.io. Star­ted by Swiss game de­veloper Sid­ney de Vries in 2018 and already played by over 200 mil­lion unique play­ers world­wide, Krunker is a massively pop­u­lar shoot­er that fea­tures full mod­ding sup­port that can be played any­where, without hav­ing to in­stall the com­puter game.FRVR is a games plat­form com­pany build­ing an eco­sys­tem to con­nect bil­lions of play­ers to cap­tiv­at­ing games. FRVR’s mis­sion is to demo­crat­ize com­puter game dis­tri­bu­tion by mak­ing sure to de­liv­er great games for every­one, every­where, work­ing along­side amaz­ing de­velopers and in­nov­at­ive part­ners. With FRVR, find­ing great com­puter games is nev­er more than three clicks away. FRVR was foun­ded by com­puter games in­dustry vet­er­ans Chris Ben­jamin­sen and Bri­an Meidell in 2017 and has grown from a small pas­sion pro­ject in­to over 100 em­ploy­ees across 6 of­fices world­wide.CMS Switzer­land­Stefan Brunnsch­weiler, Man­aging Part­ner, Cor­por­ate/M&ADr Dirk Spacek, Part­ner, IT and IPT­ina Balzli, Part­ner, Fintech & Block­chain­Mark Ca­gi­enard, Part­ner, TaxDr Si­mone Brauch­bar Birkhäuser, Coun­sel, IP­Al­ex­an­dra Stock­er, As­so­ci­ate, Cor­por­ate/M&AAndrea Relly, As­so­ci­ate, Cor­por­ate/M&AChristina Winter, As­so­ci­ate, Em­ploy­mentCMS United King­do­m­Anthony Wall­er, Re­la­tion­ship Part­ner, Cor­por­ate/M&A

Rank­ings of CMS Switzer­land in The Leg­al 500 EMEA 2022 edi­tion

Tal­ent­house AG, a lead­ing tech­no­logy plat­form con­nect­ing brands and cre­at­ives glob­ally, has been lis­ted as an op­er­at­ing com­pany on the In­ter­na­tion­al Re­port­ing Stand­ard of the SIX Swiss Ex­change (SIX) since 29 March 2022. Over the past 15 months, Tal­ent­house AG has bundled four pre­vi­ously in­de­pend­ent com­pan­ies and brought them to the stock ex­change in Zurich through a re­verse mer­ger. This is the second list­ing on the SIX this year (after the first list­ing on the new SPARKS seg­ment of the SIX). Tal­ent­house AG is a tech­no­logy plat­form com­pany that works with the world's largest cre­at­ive com­munity with over 14 mil­lion mem­bers to pro­duce high-qual­ity di­git­al con­tent for nu­mer­ous ma­jor glob­al com­pan­ies such as Net­flix and Nike. Tal­ent­house AG, which op­er­ates the cre­at­ive plat­forms Tal­ent­house, Ey­e­Em, Ello, Zo­oppa and Jovoto, is pi­on­eer­ing the struc­tur­al re­align­ment of con­tent pro­duc­tion us­ing a plat­form-based busi­ness mod­el to de­liv­er con­tent that can keep pace with con­sumer de­mand in the di­git­al age in terms of scale and qual­ity. At the same time, the com­pany of­fers de­vel­op­ment op­por­tun­it­ies to cre­at­ive minds. The com­pany is dom­i­ciled in Switzer­land and, in ad­di­tion to its op­er­a­tion­al headquar­ters in Lon­don, has of­fices in Los Angeles, New York City, Ber­lin, Mil­an and Phil­adelphia.The trans­ac­tion was sup­por­ted by an in­ter­na­tion­al leg­al team un­der Re­la­tion­ship Part­ner Gregor Famira of CMS Vi­enna. The Swiss CMS team ad­vised the ma­jor­ity share­hold­er of Tal­ent­house AG (Tal­ent­house GmbH) as well as the chair­man of the board of Tal­ent­house AG.The Swiss team was led by Mat­thi­as Kuert (Cap­it­al Mar­kets) and fur­ther in­cluded Stefan Brunnsch­weiler (Part­ner, Cor­por­ate/M&A), Fran­ziska Ham­mer, Flori­an Jung and Al­ex­an­dra Stock­er (all Cor­por­ate/M&A) as well as Si­mone Brauch­bar (IP/IT), Mark Ca­gi­enard (Part­ner; Tax) and Jodok Wicki (Part­ner; Com­mer­cial/Lit­ig­a­tion).

Trilux AG ac­quires Mono-Licht GmbH and thus fur­ther ex­pands its ca­pa­cit­ies in the field of ar­chi­tec­tur­al light­ing and spe­cial lu­min­aire pro­duc­tion. Foun­ded in 1997, Mono-Licht GmbH is a Swiss lu­min­aire man­u­fac­turer based in Win­ter­thur. The fam­ily-owned com­pany has more than 20 years of ex­per­i­ence in lu­min­aire man­u­fac­tur­ing and em­ploys around 25 people. Mono-Licht GmbH spe­cial­izes in high-qual­ity spe­cial lu­min­aires and pro­ject solu­tions, which are de­veloped at the Win­ter­thur site and pro­duced in the com­pany's own man­u­fact­ory.Trilux and Mono-Licht have already been work­ing to­geth­er suc­cess­fully for many years on vari­ous light­ing pro­jects. With the pur­chase of Mono-Licht GmbH, Trilux AG is fur­ther ex­pand­ing its ca­pa­cit­ies and com­pet­ences in the field of ar­chi­tec­tur­al light­ing and high-qual­ity spe­cial lu­min­aire pro­duc­tion in a tar­geted man­ner and is also con­sist­ently ex­ploit­ing the valu­able syn­er­gies in all areas, from product de­vel­op­ment to joint sales and mar­ket­ing. Mono-Licht GmbH will con­tin­ue to op­er­ate as an in­de­pend­ent en­ter­prise in the Swiss mar­ket.A team of CMS Switzer­land led by part­ner Stephan Wer­len provided com­pre­hens­ive leg­al ad­vice to Trilux AG on the trans­ac­tion.CMS Switzer­land­Dr Stephan Wer­len, Part­ner, Cor­por­ate / M&APas­cal Stock­er, As­so­ci­ate, Cor­por­ate / M&AAl­ex­an­dra Stock­er, As­so­ci­ate, Cor­por­ate / M&ADr Si­mone Brauch­bar Birkhäuser, Coun­sel, IP / ITKatja Bertsche, As­so­ci­ate, Real Es­tat­e­Chris­ti­an Gers­bach, Part­ner, Em­ploy­ment­Christina Winter, As­so­ci­ate, Em­ploy­ment­Patrick Ne­her, At­tor­ney Train­ee, Com­mer­cial­Lu­cas Poschung, At­tor­ney Train­ee, Com­mer­cial

The Frank­furt-based fin­an­cial in­vestor Halder has ac­quired Newemag AG. All parties in­volved have agreed not to dis­close the de­tails of the trans­ac­tion.Foun­ded in 1975, Newemag AG ranks among the lead­ing sup­pli­ers of ma­chine tools in Switzer­land with more than 400 cus­tom­ers in di­verse mar­kets. In ad­di­tion to turn­ing and milling ma­chines, the product port­fo­lio of Newemag AG also in­cludes ma­chin­ing centres with the cap­ab­il­ity of 5-ax­is and sim­ul­tan­eous ma­chin­ing. The com­pany has ex­tens­ive tech­nic­al and im­ple­ment­a­tion knowhow and is well con­nec­ted in the Swiss man­u­fac­tur­ing in­dustry.By way of ac­quir­ing Newemag AG and to­geth­er with Suvema AG, ac­quired in Oc­to­ber 2019, Halder es­tab­lishes the lead­ing tech­no­logy pro­vider for tailored CNC ma­chine tools in Switzer­land. Com­bin­ing the com­pet­en­cies of Suvema AG and Newemag AG with­in one group en­ables the joint ex­ploit­a­tion of ad­di­tion­al growth po­ten­tial.Halder is an ex­per­i­enced private equity in­vestor act­ive in the Ger­man-speak­ing re­gion since 1991 sup­port­ing es­tab­lished busi­nesses mainly in the sec­tors In­dus­tri­al, Health­care and Food & Bever­age. Halder sup­ports its port­fo­lio com­pan­ies on their jour­ney to be­come mar­ket lead­er. Over the past 30 years, Halder has in­ves­ted in­to 44 com­pan­ies and solved 23 suc­ces­sions. Cur­rently the Halder team man­ages 7 port­fo­lio com­pan­ies.A team from CMS Switzer­land, led by Stephan Wer­len, ad­vised Halder on all leg­al mat­ters of the trans­ac­tion. The Zurich and Frank­furt private equity and M&A teams with the part­ners Stephan Wer­len and Oliv­er Wolf­gramm ad­vise Halder on a reg­u­lar basis.CMS Switzer­land­Dr Stephan Wer­len, Part­ner, Cor­por­ate / M&APas­cal Stock­er, As­so­ci­ate, Cor­por­ate / M&AAl­ex­an­dra Stock­er, As­so­ci­ate, Cor­por­ate / M&ADr Si­mone Brauch­bar Birkhäuser, Coun­sel, IP / ITKatja Bertsche, As­so­ci­ate, Real Es­tate­Patrick Ne­her, Train­ee, Com­mer­cial­CMS Ger­manyDr Oliv­er C. Wolf­gramm, Part­ner, Cor­por­ate / M&ADr Dirk Bauk­holt, Coun­sel, Cor­por­ate / M&ADr Navid An­der­son, Coun­sel, Cor­por­ate/ M&A

Bruker, a NAS­DAQ-lis­ted tech­no­logy com­pany in the ana­lyt­ic­al in­stru­ment­a­tion sec­tor, ac­quires Pro­lab.Pro­lab, foun­ded in 1988 and headquartered in Re­in­ach, spe­cial­ises in high-pre­ci­sion low-flow li­quid chro­ma­to­graphy tech­no­logy. In this con­text, the com­pany fo­cuses primar­ily on mi­cro- and nano-UH­PLC pump tech­no­logy. The zir­coni­um pump de­veloped by Pro­lab is already a com­pon­ent of Bruker­'s high-per­form­ance mass spec­tro­metry sys­tems.The ac­quis­i­tion of Pro­lab provides Bruker with the op­por­tun­ity to ac­cel­er­ate product in­nov­a­tion. In ad­di­tion, Pro­lab's in­jec­tion tech­no­logy on the Zir­coni­um Qube Auto­sampler en­ables high-pre­ci­sion in­jec­tions with the smal­lest sample volumes and min­im­al sample losses, as well as faster cycle times. There­fore, the ac­quis­i­tion of Pro­lab ideally com­ple­ments Bruker­'s high-per­form­ance mass spec­tro­metry sys­tems.A team from CMS Switzer­land, led by Stefan Brunnsch­weiler, ad­vised Bruker on all leg­al mat­ters of the trans­ac­tion.CMS Switzer­land­Stefan Brunnsch­weiler, Part­ner, Cor­por­ate / M&APas­cal Stock­er, As­so­ci­ate, Cor­por­ate / M&ADr Si­mone Brauch­bar Birkhäuser, Coun­sel, IP / ITAl­ex­an­dra Stock­er, As­so­ci­ate, Cor­por­ateDr Mar­jolaine Jakob, Part­ner, Com­mer­cial­CMS Ger­manyDr Hendrik Hirsch, Part­ner, Cor­por­ate / M&ADr Ber­rit Roth-Min­gram, Seni­or As­so­ci­ate, Cor­por­ate / M&ADr Thomas Hirse, Part­ner, IP­Kai Neuhaus, Part­ner, Com­pet­i­tion

Zurich, Feb­ru­ary 2022 – A team of CMS Switzer­land led by Stefan Brunnsch­weiler ac­ted as Swiss leg­al coun­sel for the Span­ish start-up Playtom­ic on all leg­al as­pects re­gard­ing the ac­quis­i­tion of all shares in Got­Courts AG, a swiss stock cor­por­a­tion based in Zurich, Switzer­land. CMS Switzer­land worked in col­lab­or­a­tion with team mem­bers from CMS Al­biñana & Suárez de Lezo (CMS Spain).Playtom­ic is Europe's largest sports book­ing app and SaaS for sport ven­ues. The com­pany op­er­ates in 25 coun­tries, with over 2500 part­ner clubs and over 1 mil­lion act­ive play­ers.Got­Courts is a so­cial net­work for rack­et sports play­ers and an on­line ser­vice for book­ing courts and coaches. It's the first plat­form to provide everything a play­er needs in a single net­work. Since the busi­ness was foun­ded in 2014, it has grown rap­idly in Switzer­land and are now scal­ing in­ter­na­tion­ally. Got­Courts already con­nects 250,000 rack­et sports en­thu­si­asts and sup­ports their pas­sion for the sport.CMS Switzer­land­Stefan Brunnsch­weiler, Man­aging Part­ner, Glob­al Co-Head of the Cor­por­ate/M&A GroupAndrea Relly, Seni­or As­so­ci­ate, Cor­por­ate/M&AAl­ex­an­dra Stock­er, As­so­ci­ate, Cor­por­ate/M&ASamuel Fe­lix Gang, As­so­ci­ate, Cor­por­ate/M&ADr Dirk Spacek, Part­ner, IP/IT­Dr Si­mone Brauch­bar-Birkhäuser, Coun­sel, IP/IT­Mark Ca­gi­enard, Part­ner, TaxJens Lehmann, As­so­ci­ate, Tax­Domin­ik Pen­kov, As­so­ci­ate, Tax­CMS SpainCar­los Peña, Part­ner, Cor­por­ate/M&AAlf­onso Codes, Part­ner, Pub­lic Law & Reg­u­lated Sec­tor­s­Jose Lu­is Rodríguez Ont­iver­os, As­so­ci­ate, 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

Foot­notes With ef­fect from 1 Janu­ary 2019, Switzer­land’s new Fed­er­al Act on Money Games (“AMG”) entered in­to force. The AMG ap­plies to all kinds of on­line real money games, in­clud­ing vari­ations...

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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

Zurich - The Renais­sance In­vest­ment Found­a­tion has be­come a long-term ma­jor­ity share­hold­er in the cap­it­al of bb trad­ing wer­beartikel ag, the lead­ing dis­trib­ut­or of pro­mo­tion­al items and cus­tom­er gifts in Switzer­land. To­geth­er with the ex­per­i­enced team and man­age­ment, Renais­sance will con­tin­ue the suc­cess story of the ser­vice and trad­ing com­pany and de­vel­op it fur­ther.A CMS team led by Alain Raemy provided com­pre­hens­ive leg­al and tax ad­vice to Renais­sance An­lages­tif­tung on this trans­ac­tion.CMS Switzer­lan­dAlain Raemy, Part­ner, Cor­por­ate/M&AM­ark Ca­gi­enard, Part­ner, Tax­An­drea Relly, As­so­ci­ate, Cor­por­ate/M&AAl­ex­an­dra Stock­er, As­so­ci­ate, Cor­por­ate/M&ADr Si­mone Brauch­bar Birkhäuser, Coun­sel, IP / IT­Dr Miryam Meile, As­so­ci­ate, Em­ploy­ment­Dr Dav­id Schuler, As­so­ci­ate, Tax