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Bär & Karrer Advised Wüest Partner on the Purchase of a Majority Stake in Signa-Terre and the Acquisition of Khephren

Wüest Partner AG acquired a majority stake in Signa-Terre Ltd. and 100% of Khephren Ltd. Founded in 2008 in Geneva, Signa-Terre has successfully established itself in the fields of collecting and processing energy consumption data from real estate properties and in the planning of renovation cycles. Khephren, founded in 2016 also in Geneva as a joint venture of Signa-Terre, Acanthe, and BG Ingénieurs Conseils, established a reputation for developing an independent, efficient, and innovative platform. The SaaS application is designed to enable intuitive review and control of the financial, technical and energy status of real estate portfolios.

Bär & Karrer acted as the legal advisor to Wüest Partner in these transactions. The team was led by Raphael Annasohn and further included Lukas Bründler, Luana Stämpfli, Julian Lindt, Dominique Nguyen, and Leander Knapp (all M&A), Christoph Suter, Julian Hodel and Leotrim Berisha (all Tax), Ruth Bloch-Riemer and David Weimann (both Social Security), Markus Wang, Jonas Bornhauser and Dario Haux (all IP/IT), Laura Widmer and Sandra Schaffner (both Employment), Rehana Harasgama (Data Protection) as well as Mani Reinert (Competition).