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One letter a month on the Swiss private market: the deals, the register and what they mean for owners and buyers. Weekly notes on the site in between.
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Quarterly review · Q3 2026Migros bought a dental roll-up, and Geneva's bankruptcies doubledOctober 20264 weekly notesMonthly letter
September 20265 weekly notesMonthly letter
August 20264 weekly notesDeal recap
July 20265 weekly notesDeal recap
- Two Swiss companies changed owner this week, and only one of them told anyone
- Switzerland traded a listing for a technology this week — and a Suhr company bought bp out of Austria
- A PE-backed roll-up moved six businesses this week with no press release — the register saw it first
- The deadline rush is over. The buyers are not.
- Fragile boards make willing sellers
June 20264 weekly notesDeal recap
May 20263 weekly notes
January–March 2026 (early format)11 weekly notes
- Orthoconcept merges eight subsidiaries into one company
- Dätwyler IT Infra absorbs Mac Robi and Seabix
- Equans, CGI and MCM Schaublin: three cross-border roll-ups in one week
- Coloplast folds Kerecis into its Swiss company; bankruptcies 12% above average
- Accenture and Equans tidy up their Swiss companies in the calmest week of 2026
- Board changes fall below 2,000 in a week for the first time in 2026
- Liquidations reach a 2026 high of 353 as year-end dissolutions clear
- New registrations peak for 2026 at 1,389; Eraneos absorbs abaQon
- A steady week: new registrations at 1,184, bankruptcies down 16% to 191
- Sonova and Baloise move assets inside their groups as January activity levels off
- January formation wave: new registrations up 54% in a week
The deal tape
Every transaction in every issue also lands in one running ledger — 127 Swiss deals recorded since May 2026, with the acquirer, the canton and the source.
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