Deals & Cases

Computershare aquires SIX SAG Ltd

12 July 2015 – On 9 July 2015, the shareholder in SIX SAG Ltd (SIX Securities Services Ltd) and Computershare Limited entered into a share purchase agreement under which Computershare Limited purchased all shares (100%) in SIX SAG Ltd. The consummation of the share purchase agreement is planned to occur in December 2015.


SIX SAG Ltd is the Swiss market leader in the field of share register and special share register management and the staging of general meetings for other companies. SIX SAG Ltd is part of SIX Securities Services. Computershare is the global market leader in the area of bank-independent issuer services.


Walder Wyss has advised Computershare Limited in this transaction. The team has been led by Alexander Niktine (Capital Markets, Corporate/M&A, Partner) and Alexandre Both (Capital Markets, Corporate/M&A, Managing Associate) and further included Lukas Wyss (Banking Finance, Partner), Sarah Schulthess (Capital Markets, Corporate/M&A, Associate), David M. Hill (Arbeitsrecht, Associate), Dirk Spacek (IP/IT, Associate), Kim N. Leuch (IP/IT, Associate), Dan Schmelzer (Banking Finance, Associate) and Janine Corti (Tax, Associate).