22.12.2023 / Deals & Cases

Deal: Wenger Vieli advised the shareholders of Isovalent Inc. on its sale to Cisco

Wenger Vieli advised the shareholders of the Isovalent group on its sale to Cisco with all Swiss legal and tax matters.

Isovalent builds open-source software and enterprise solutions solving networking, security, and observability needs for modern cloud native infrastructure. The flagship technology Cilium is the choice of leading global organizations including Adobe, AWS, Capital One, Datadog, GitLab, Google, and many more.

The hardware, software and service offerings of the NASDAQ-listed US tech company Cisco are used to develop Internet solutions that enable easy access to networks anytime, anywhere. Cisco group is currently engaging more than 85'000 employees all over the world.

The entire sales process was led by our colleagues at Goodwin, who had the overall lead of the transaction. Our team was led by Barbara Brauchli Rohrer (Partner, Tax) and Beat Speck (Partner, M&A / Corporate) and included Jonas Bühlmann (Counsel, Tax) and Sabine Taxer (Senior Associate, Employment Law).