JLL Partners extends investment in Solvias through continuation vehicle

Niederer Kraft Frey acted as Swiss counsel to the financing providers on the financing of the transfer of Solvias to a continuation vehicle managed by JLL Partners.

Solvias is an internationally active group, specialising in contract / pharmaceutical research, testing as well as the manufacturing of pharmaceutical products, offering services like method development, release testing, biological analysis, custom synthesis and ligand / catalyst technologies. JLL Partners is a middle market private equity firm with over three decades of experience transforming businesses in the healthcare, specialty industrials, and business services sectors.

The NKF Team included Transaction partners Philip Spoerlé and Philippe Weber as well as associates Selim Lötscher and Benedikt Hadorn (both Transactions), junior associate Géraldine Küderli (Transactions), and partner Markus Kronauer and senior associate Vanessa Witschi (both Tax). The NKF team worked alongside a team of Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP acting as US counsel.