About SME Market.

SME Market (SMEMARKET.CH) is a Swiss online marketplace for the publication and dissemination of offers concerning Swiss SME transactions. It connects qualified institutional buyers and family offices to anonymised mandates listed by SME owners and their advisors, and supplies the framework, tooling, and structured workflow within which the parties negotiate.

The Platform is reserved to professional and business use. It is not directed at consumers.

SME Market is operated by IBEX SERVICES Ltd, registered in Canton Ticino under company number CHE-114.803.997, with registered office at Via Serafino Balestra 6, 6830 Chiasso.

IBEX SERVICES Ltd forms part of the IBEX Group, a Swiss-based family office and advisory practice. The full corporate identification is set out in the Impressum.

The Operator acts as an introducer (Mäkler) under Articles 412 to 418 of the Swiss Code of Obligations. It is not a financial intermediary under AMLA/GwG, not a regulated investment firm under FinSA/FIDLEG or FinIA/FINIG, not a trading venue under FinMIA/FinfraG, and not an auditor.

The Platform imposes no mandatory rules on the structure of any Transaction; the Operator does not represent any party; the Platform never holds shares, assets, funds, or other values on behalf of any party. Settlement occurs directly between the parties' banking institutions.

The verification protocol applied to every registered party is a verification of the parties, not an audit of the underlying business. Due diligence on every Target Company remains the Buyer's responsibility.

The Transaction is the parties'. We provide the venue.

Listings cover Swiss-incorporated SMEs across all 26 cantons. The Platform operates in four languages, English, German, French, and Italian, reflecting the linguistic structure of Switzerland's SME economy. Translations are provided for convenience; in case of discrepancy, the English version of the General Terms and Conditions prevails, save where Swiss mandatory law provides otherwise.

Buyers may be Swiss or international, provided they qualify under the verification protocol and are not subject to applicable sanctions.

Public listings are anonymised by construction. Sector, canton, deal type, and quantitative bands are shown; the company's identity, address, customer base, and identifying detail are not.

Identifying information is disclosed only after the Buyer has executed a per-deal Non-Disclosure Agreement and a dossier credit has been applied. Even then, the Seller retains the right to refuse any individual buyer introduction.

This is not a marketing position. It is the platform's operating constraint, encoded in the Intermediation Agreements, the General Terms and Conditions, and the NDA framework.

The Swiss SME economy is large, more than half a million businesses, the great majority below the threshold at which traditional investment banks serve them. Succession and ownership transitions, when they happen, often occur through trusted personal networks, sometimes with significant information asymmetry between the parties.

SME Market is built on the premise that a structured, anonymised, multilingual venue, reserved to qualified buyers and bound by clear rules on confidentiality, fee transparency, and non-custody, widens the access without diluting the discretion. The marketplace operates in the segment where intermediation, not advisory, is the binding constraint.