Slaughter and May advised Sunrise on the transitional services and migration aspects of its proposed CHF6.3 billion acquisition of UPC Switzerland from Liberty Global plc

Slaughter and May advised Sunrise on the transitional services and migration aspects of its proposed CHF6.3 billion acquisition of UPC Switzerland from Liberty Global plc. The deal is a transformative one for Sunrise and will turn it into a fully converged challenger in Switzerland to Swisscom (the current market leader) with services across the full quadplay (broadband internet access, television, telephone and mobile) range.

Sunrise is a Swiss telecommunications company. UPC Switzerland is a cable operator. Liberty Global plc is a multinational telecommunications company.