Deals & Cases

Migros acquires Lüchinger+Schmid-Group

11 February 2015 – Migros, Switzerland's largest retail company and largest supermarket chain, acquires, through its subsidiary Saviva Swiss Food Services, Lüchinger+Schmid-Group, Switzerland’s leading egg manufacturer and processing company and thereby expands its egg business. Lüchinger+Schmid-Group employs about 270 people in eight sale and two production locations in Flawil SG and Kloten ZH and in 2012 realized total revenues of about CHF 200 million. The transaction is subject to Swiss Competition Commission approval.


Walder Wyss AG advises the acquiror on all legal aspects of this transaction. The Walder Wyss team is led by Markus Vischer (Partner, Corporate/M&A) together with Simon Kehl (Managing Associate, Corporate/M&A) and Lucas Hänni (Counsel, Corporate/M&A) and further includes Reto Jacobs (Partner, Antitrust), Gion Giger (Managing Associate, Antitrust), Barbara A. Keiser (Associate, Corporate/M&A), Christoph Stutz (Associate, Employment) and Christian Lütolf (Associate, Corporate/M&A).