The shareholders of the Mimacom Flowable Group ("MFG") have sold MFG to the private equity investment house Ardian, accompanied by a reinvestment of the management. The transaction was completed on 19 April 2023.

Headquartered in Switzerland, MFG specializes in services, software development and digital transformation, cloud, and data consultancy for well-known blue-chip customers in the manufacturing, finance, insurance and life sciences sectors. With Flowable, it also offers its own low-code software platform for the automation and digitalization of business processes. MFG has more than 500 employees across 10 locations worldwide, including in Switzerland, Germany, Spain, the USA, Poland and Singapore.

VISCHER advised the sellers and the management on all legal aspects of the transaction. The VISCHER team was led by Dr. Jürg Luginbühl (Partner, Corporate/M&A) and included Sebastian P. Weber (Senior Associate, Corporate/M&A and Technology Transactions), Christian Gutzwiller (Senior Associate, Corporate/M&A), Gordana Nisevic (Corporate/M&A), Dr. Tobias F. Rohner (Partner, Tax) and Elias Mühlemann (Managing Associate, IP/Data & Privacy).