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DPE acquires AWK Group

January 2018

Deutsche Private Equity (DPE) acquires majority interest in AWK Group, one of the largest independent Swiss consulting companies for information technology and digitalization.

Walder Wyss advised DPE on the transaction. The team was led by Florian Gunz Niedermann (Corporate/M&A, Partner) and further included Fabienne Anner, Michael Kündig, Alice Vorburger and Christoph Zaugg (Corporate/M&A, Associates), Lukas Wyss(Banking&Finance, Partner), Julia Lehner (Banking&Finance, Associate), Maurus Winzap (Tax, Partner), Ueli Sommer (Employment, Partner), Mélanie Gmeiner-Giger (Employment, Associate), Daniel Zimmerli (Competition, Counsel), Michael Isler (IP/IT, Partner) and Manuel Bigler (IP/IT, Associate).

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17 February 2017: Auris Medical's Public Equity Offering

Auris Medical Holding AG (NASDAQ: EARS) issued and priced its public offering of 10,000,000 common shares and 10,000,000 warrants, each warrant entitling its holder to purchase 0.70 of a common share. The common shares and warrants are being sold in units comprised of one common share and one warrant at the public offering price of USD 1.00 per unit. The warrants will be immediately exercisable at a price of USD 1.20 per common share and are exercisable for five years. In connection with the offering, the Company has granted the underwriter a 30-day option to purchase up to 1,500,000 additional common shares and/or 1,500,000 additional warrants at the public offering price less underwriting discounts. The offering is expected to close on or about February 21, 2017, subject to customary closing conditions. Roth Capital Partners is acting as sole book-running manager in the offering. Maxim Group LLC is acting as a financial advisor in the offering.

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Bär & Karrer Partner Paolo Bottini Wins the Client Choice Award 2019 by Lexology

Bär & Karrer is pleased to announce that partner Paolo Bottini has been recognized by Lexology and the International Law Office (ILO) as the Client Choice Winner 2019 in the Corporate Tax category in Switzerland.

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Bär & Karrer Advises CEVA Logistics in Connection with the Strengthening of the Strategic Partnersh

On 11 October 2018, the board of directors of CEVA Logistics AG announced that the Danish transport and logistic company DSV submitted a non-binding letter of interest with an indicative offer price of CHF 27.75 per CEVA share and that the board of directors of CEVA came to the conclusion that the offer was not in the best interest of the company and its shareholders. This was in particular because at that point in time, CEVA was already in discussions regarding an intensified cooperation with its main shareholder CMA CGM S.A., which shall exploit the full potential of CEVA.

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Bär & Karrer Advised the Issuer in the Rights Offering of Cavotec SA

On 10 January 2019, Cavotec SA completed a capital increase by way of a rights offering to its shareholders in the amount of approximately CHF 22.4 million. The Cavotec group, with its Swiss holding company listed on Nasdaq Stockholm, is a leading engineering group that designs and manufactures automated connection and electrification systems for ports, airports and industrial applications worldwide. 80.5% of the shareholders of Cavotec SA exercised their subscription rights in the rights offering. The remaining new shares not subscribed were allotted to investors who had subscribed for shares without subscription rights, pursuant to the allocation procedure described in the prospectus of 6 December 2018. The offer price was set at SEK 13 per share.

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Bär & Karrer Advises German Pharmacy Medpex in the Sale of its E-Commerce Activities to Zur Rose Gr

On 18 October 2018, Zur Rose Group AG, Europe's leading e-commerce pharmacy which is listed on SIX Swiss Exchange, announced that it is acquiring the e-commerce activities of Germany's third largest pharmacy medpex. The transaction was subject to regulatory clearances and closed on 4 January 2019.

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Bär & Karrer Advised Combell on the Acquisition of Switchplus

Combell acquired switchplus, a company for internet presence and domain names, from SWITCH.

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Bär & Karrer Advised UBS and Mirabaud on the Placement of Shares of Santhera Pharmaceuticals Holdin

Santhera Pharmaceuticals Holding AG (Santhera) placed 3,133,334 new shares at an offer price of CHF 7.50 per share. The shares were placed by way of an accelerated bookbuilding procedure in a public offering in Switzerland, in private placements outside of the United States and Switzerland and in private placements within the United States to qualified institutional buyers. The shares were issued under exclusion of the existing shareholders' subscription rights through an ordinary capital increase resolved by an extraordinary shareholders' meeting.

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Bär & Karrer Advises Otto Group on the Sale of Zahnärztekasse

EOS Group, which is part of Otto Group, has entered into an agreement on the sale of Health AG and Zahnärztekasse AG to BAWAG Group. Health and Zahnärz-tekasse are two leading dental factoring market players in Germany and Switzer-land.

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Changes to Swiss debt enforcement and bankruptcy law effective January 2019

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Bär & Karrer Advised Maxwell Technologies, Inc. on the Sale of Maxwell Technologies SA

Maxwell Technologies, Inc. sold its subsidiary Maxwell Technologies SA to Renaissance, a Swiss investment foundation for pension funds. Maxwell Technologies SA is a world leader in the manufacturing of high voltage capacitors used to ensure safety and reliability of electrical infrastructure and other applications such as transportation, distribution and metering of high voltage energy.

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Cowen Acquires Quarton Group

Cowen Inc., a NASDAQ listed, diversified financial services firm, agreed to acquire the Quarton group, a global financial advisor serving the middle market. Closing is expected in early 2019.

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