Antin Infrastructure Partners acquires NorthC Datacentres
22 December 2025 Niederer Kraft Frey acted as Swiss legal counsel to Antin Infrastructure Partners on its agreement to acquire NorthC Datacentres from DWS and other shareholders, a data centre platform with substantial operations in Switzerland, advising on all Swiss-related aspects of the transaction.
Catexel acquires BASF’s Optical Brightening Business
19 December 2025 Niederer Kraft Frey has acted as lead counsel to the International Chemical Investors Group (ICIG) on the acquisition of BASF’s global optical brightening business by ICIG’s care chemicals platform Catexel. The transaction comprises the international operations of the business, including the production of optical brightening agents at the Monthey site in Switzerland …
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Mageba secures refinancing
Niederer Kraft Frey acted as lead counsel to UBS Switzerland AG as mandated lead arranger & agent and the other members of the banking syndicate in connection with a refinancing for mageba group.
CoinShares lists physical staked Toncoin ETP on SIX Swiss Exchange
Niederer Kraft Frey advised CoinShares, a leading European digital asset investment firm with over USD 9.5 billion in AUM, on the listing of its physically-backed Toncoin exchange-traded product (ETP) on the SIX Swiss Exchange in Zurich. The listing of CoinShares Physical Staked Toncoin on SIX demonstrates the company’s ongoing commitment to offering investors access to …
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Cicor Technologies to finance acquisition of TT Electronics
Niederer Kraft Frey advised Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft and UBS Switzerland AG acting as mandated lead arrangers on Swiss law aspects of the financing of Cicor Technologies Ltd.’s acquisition of TT Electronics Plc. The transaction will be implemented by way of a UK court-sanctioned scheme of arrangement and is expected to close in the first half of …
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EQT, together with ADIA and Auba, successfully complete the sale of 8.4% of Galderma’s share capital via an accelerated bookbuilding process
Sunshine SwissCo GmbH (a consortium led by EQT), together with Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and Auba Investment Pte. Ltd., have successfully placed 20,000,000 shares in Galderma Group AG at a price of CHF 130.00 per share via an accelerated bookbuilding process. The placement raised c. CHF 2.6 billion in total.
Morimatsu Group acquires Bioengineering AG
12 September 2025 Niederer Kraft Frey advised the former owners on the sale of Bioengineering AG, a Swiss-based specialist in the development and production of bioreactors, especially fermenters for the pharmaceutical, biotech and novel food industries, with subsidiaries in China, Korea and the USA, to the Japanese Morimatsu Group. Morimatsu is a global, diversified provider …
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SMG Swiss Marketplace Group Holding AG successfully launches IPO on SIX Swiss Exchange with an offering of between CHF 971m and CHF 1bn
11 September 2025 SMG Swiss Marketplace Group Holding AG (“SMG”), advised by Niederer Kraft Frey as lead counsel, today announced the publication of its prospectus and the start of the book-building process, as part of its intention to conduct an IPO on SIX Swiss Exchange.
SWISSto12 acquires key assets and IP from Hanwha Phasor
8 September 2025 Niederer Kraft Frey advised SWISSto12 as lead counsel on the acquisition of key assets and IP from Hanwha Phasor.
SoftwareONE AG secures CHF 1.26bn debt financing
3 September 2025 Niederer Kraft Frey acting as lead counsel advised UniCredit Bank GmbH as documentation agent, UBS Switzerland AG as facility agent and the other members of an international banking syndicate on a CHF 1.26 billion financing for SoftwareONE AG.