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Vinge advises Yubico in the merger with ACQ Bure  

ACQ Bure AB, a Swedish acquisition company (Special Purpose Acquisition Company) listed on Nasdaq Stockholm and Yubico AB have signed a merger agreement and adopted a joint merger plan to combine ACQ and Yubico.

Yubico is a leading provider of multi-factor cybersecurity solutions. Yubico’s hardware-based security key, YubiKey, is a leading solution for protection against phishing attacks, and works across hundreds of consumer and enterprise applications and services. Yubico’s technology enables secure authentication, encryption, and code signing and is used by many of the world’s largest organizations and millions of users in more than 160 countries

The transaction values Yubico’s shares at 800 MUSD and is expected to be completed during the third quarter 2023, subject to, among other things, approval by the general meeting in ACQ and Yubico, respectively.

Vinge’s team consisted of Jonas Johansson, Maria Dahlin Kolvik and Gustav Wahlberg (M&A) as well as Linnea Sellström (Public M&A).

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