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GetYourGuide Raises €114 Million in Convertible Note Financing

22 November 2020 – Walder Wyss advised GetYourGuide on a €114 million convertible note financing. The financing round was led by Searchlight Capital and was joined by a consortium of GetYourGuide’s existing investors, including SoftBank Vision Fund, KKR, Battery Ventures, Highland Europe, Spark Capital, Lakestar, Heartcore Capital and NGP Capital, as well as the company’s own founding team and others.

With this convertible note financing, GetYourGuide ensures that it can invest in strategic opportunities to cement its market-leading position and ignite post-pandemic travel demand. The Walder Wyss team already advised GetYourGuide in May 2019 in its series E financing round with an investment volume of $484 million.

The Walder Wyss team comprises Florian Gunz Niedermann (Partner, Corporate/M&A) and Christian Lütolf (Managing Associate, Corporate/M&A).