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EQT sells Ontinue, the last piece of Open Systems

Quorum Cyber announced on 16 September 2026 a definitive agreement to acquire Ontinue, the Zurich-based Microsoft-focused managed detection and response provider owned by EQT's Mid Market Europe fund. Ontinue serves more than 250 customers; Eterna Growth Partners, Quorum's majority investor, will control the combined company.

Stadler Signalling AG of Wallisellen raised its share capital from CHF 100,000 to CHF 928,157 on 2 September 2026 by setting off a claim of CHF 39.8 million, published 17 September. Stadler's Signalling segment reported CHF 27 million of revenue in the first half of 2026.

Schweizerische Mobiliar Holding AG placed 7.5% of SMG Swiss Marketplace Group AG through an accelerated bookbuilding on 14 September 2026. TX Group AG bought 3,426,731 of the shares, raising its stake from 31.4% to 34.9%, and SMG bought back 1.0% of its own capital.

6Press-Reported Dealsup from 3 WoW
593Distress Events+8% WoW
6Startup FundingCHF 54.7M converted
8Succession Signals-43% WoW
953New Registrations-10% WoW
2355Board Changes— flat

EQT has now sold all of Open Systems. It bought the Zurich network-security company in 2017 and sold the network and SASE business to Swiss Post in 2024. On 16 September it agreed to sell the rest, Ontinue, the managed detection and response unit carved out in 2023, to Quorum Cyber of Edinburgh. Ontinue has more than 250 customers in Europe and the US and made three add-on acquisitions under EQT.

Foreign sponsor-backed buyers are paying for Swiss specialists. Quorum, controlled by Eterna Growth Partners, wanted a Microsoft security specialist with Continental clients. The same week Stockholm's Endra bought Planlabs, a two-year-old Zurich AI team. Both bought teams and capabilities, not local market share.

Two domestic ownership moves. Mobiliar sold 7.5% of SMG Swiss Marketplace Group overnight on 14 September, a year after the IPO; TX Group took most of the block to reach 34.9%, and SMG bought back 1.0%. Separately, the European Commission cleared Helsana and SBB's joint control of HMS, the railway's former occupational-health service.

One real register deal out of eleven. Six of the filings the old method counted as mergers state that one owner already held both companies; two are demergers and two are holding reorganisations. The exception joined two Lucerne staffing firms, Chrampfcheibe and Dommen Nadig, with new shares issued to the absorbed firm's owners.

Stadler recapitalises its signalling unit

Stadler Signalling AG of Wallisellen is the company behind the rail group's signalling and train-control business. On 2 September its shareholders raised the share capital from CHF 100,000 to CHF 928,157. No cash came in: the notice, published 17 September, says a claim of CHF 39.75 million was set off against 828,157 new shares, a price of CHF 48 per share of CHF 1 nominal. The notice does not name the creditor; the company belongs to the Stadler group.

For scale, Stadler's Signalling segment reported CHF 27 million of revenue and CHF 29.7 million of orders in the first half of 2026, against a group backlog of CHF 33.3 billion. A group converts CHF 40 million of loans into a subsidiary's equity when that subsidiary's equity needs the support: signalling is the Stadler business still being built, and it is being funded like one. Stadler's shares fell 22% on the half-year results in August, on margins and cash flow. The register now shows where part of that cash went.

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Based on 5,786 SOGC/SHAB publications processed this week. M&A data sourced from Swiss commercial registry filings (1 SOGC), press-reported transactions via web intelligence (6 EXA), and startup funding from Startupticker, Tech.eu, and company disclosures (6 rounds). Company distress scoring based on proprietary multi-signal model across 113,000 Swiss companies. From this edition the register deal count excludes merger and asset-transfer filings whose notice states that one owner already held every share of both companies, and demergers. On that basis this week counts one register deal; the 2026-W37 figure of 12 was counted the old way, so the change is method, not market. The forward radar carries two names: the scored list was dominated by large-group subsidiaries whose board changes are housekeeping.

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