Deals & Cases
MLL advises Crypto Finance Ltd on the sale of a majority participation to Deutsche Börse Group
The Deutsche Börse Group, an international exchange organisation and innovative market infrastructure provider, acquires a majority of the shares in Crypto Finance Ltd, a Swiss crypto broker and asset manager.
Headquartered in the Swiss Crypto Valley in Canton Zug, Crypto Finance, a fully FINMA-licensed securities firm, offers trading, storage and investment services for digital assets to institutional and professional clients. Crypto Finance in particular offers day and night trading and brokerage of a wide variety of digital assets in combination with a highly secure proprietor custody solution. Crypto Finance also simplifies the investment and custody of digital assets and offers its clients state of the art tokenisation and blockchain infrastructure services. The transaction is scheduled to close in autumn 2021.
MLL advised Crypto Finance on all legal and tax aspects of the transaction. The team was led by Alexander Vogel (partner and head of MLL’s corporate and finance department) and included Thomas Nabholz (partner tax), Michael Reinle (partner IP/ICT), Sergio Bortolani (partner corporate) Reto Luthiger (counsel fintech/regulatory), Christian Rebell (senior associate M&A), Florian Müller (senior associate and notary public) as well as Julia Pugliese (junior associate M&A).
