Dr. Beat Brechbühl

Attorney at Law, Managing Partner, LL.M.

Smart, efficient and humorous problem-solver

About

Beat Brechbühl is the managing partner of Kellerhals Carrard and head of the M&A/Corporate Team. He mainly advises on private and public mergers&aquisitions and on complex joint ventures and cooperations and has advised in over 170 transactions of all kinds. Thanks to his experience as a business angel, board member and lecturer in entrepreneurship at the University of Bern, he and his team are also sought-after sparring partners for SMEs, international corporations and entrepreneurs.

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Languages

  • German
  • English
  • French
  • Italian
Recommended by Chambers and Legal500 in the practice areas of Capital Market Law ("leading individual"), and Corporate, Commercial, M&A (Client praises Beat Brechbühl's "good business judgment and pragmatic approach," also describing him as "intelligent, quick, straightforward and a talented negotiator.)

Experience

Ranking & Awards
Board of Directors and association mandates
Career
Memberships
Education
Further Activities
  • Recommended by Chambers and Legal 500 as "Leading Indiviudal" in the areas of M&A, corporate and capital markets.

  • Recognized by Who's Who Legal as Thought Leader in Firm Management and National Leader in M&A.

  • Winner 2021 of the Entrepreneur Award of the Bernese Chamber of Commerce.

  • Foreign associate at a major US law firm in NJ/NY
  • Employee in the legal department of Sandoz/Novartis Nutrition AG
  • Research assistant at the Institute for Economic Law at the University of Bern, Prof. Roland von Büren department
  • Assistant at the Civilian Seminar, Prof. Eugen Bucher department
  • Swiss Bar Association (SAV/FSA)
  • Bern Bar Association (BAV)
  • Inter-Pacific Bar Association (IPBA)
  • 1998: LL.M., University of Chicago Law School
  • 1997: Dr. iur., University of Bern
  • 1995: Admission to the bar, Bern / attorney at law
  • Member of the regulatory and licensing body of BX Swiss.
  • Lecturer in entrepreneurship at the University of Bern, Institute of Marketing and Management since 2009
  • Co-founder and honorary member of Swiss Venture Club (since 2001)
  • Lecturing assignments at the University of Fribourg (2001-2008) and various CAS programs (2012-present)
  • International Association of Young Lawyers (AIJA, president of Skills and Business Law Commissions 2001-2013)

Contact

Bern

Effingerstrasse 1
Postfach
CH-3001 Bern


Tel. +41 58 200 35 00
Fax +41 58 200 35 11
info@kellerhals-carrard.ch
 

Kellerhals Carrard

Basel ∣ Bern ∣ Geneva ∣ Lausanne ∣ Lugano ∣ Sion ∣ Zurich


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