Advestra advises SGS on the acquisition of CertX

SGS SA (SIX: SGSN), the world’s lead­ing test­ing, inspec­tion and cer­ti­fic­a­tion com­pany, announced the acquis­i­tion of Cer­tX. Cer­tX is a cer­ti­fic­a­tion spe­cial­ist in cyber­se­cur­ity, arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence (AI) and func­tion­al safety foun­ded in 2018 as a spin-off from the Uni­ver­sity of Fri­bourg, Switzerland.

Advestra acted as leg­al coun­sel to SGS. The team included Daniel Raun, Fabi­an Loretan and Mar­tina Giac­ometti (all Cor­por­ate | M&A).