Cedarlake acquires from Argos Soditic the majority of BMF Group

8 November 2017

Cedarlake Private Equity Fund I, advised by Rantum Capital, acquires from Argos Soditic Funds the majority of BMF Group AG, the world's third largest ropeway manufacturer with more than 320 employees and main registered seat in Flums, St. Gallen, Switzerland. The founding family Bartholet remains invested and the management team around Chairman Roland Bartholet is supporting the transaction. A strategic objective of the transaction was to enable the BMF group to enhance further its strategic development in China and other strongly growing regions in Asia.

VISCHER advises Cedarlake and Rantum, respectively. The VISCHER team led by partner Dr. Robert Bernet comprised Dr. Peter Kühn, Sebastian Flückiger, Ruben Masar, Aron Waltuch, Janique Bourgeois (Corporate/M&A), Marc Ph. Prinz and Florian Schaub (Employment), Dr. Jana Essebier (Finance), Klaus Neff (Merger control), Adrian Gautschi (IP) and Lukas Züst (China Desk).