Deals & Cases

Tender offer for u-blox successfully completed

27. November 2025

ZI Zenith S.à r.l., an European indirect subsidiary of funds managed and/or advised by the leading global private equity investor Advent International, L.P., has successfully completed its public tender offer for all publicly held shares in u-blox Holding AG (SIX: UBXN), a global provider of leading positioning and wireless communication technologies. Following fulfilment of all offer conditions, ZI Zenith settled the offer and paid the offer consideration of CHF 135 per share to all shareholders who tendered their shares.

Walder Wyss acted as lead counsel to u-bloxin the transaction, with Freshfields advising on regulatory matters. The Walder Wyss team was led by Hans-Jakob Diem (Partner) and Iliana Djagova (Counsel), and further included Christian A. Schmid (Senior Associate), Dimitrios Berger (Managing Associate), Kevin Laurent (Senior Associate), Estelle Mathis (Associate), Merens Derungs (Associate) and Nicolas von Sinner (Associate), Melanie Stofer (Trainee), Arnaud Lambelet (Trainee), Lia Müller (Trainee) and Dominik Lusti (Trainee), all from our Corporate/M&A team.