Beat Brechbühl
Kellerhals CarrardA ‘pragmatic, solution-oriented and efficient’ team, Kellerhals Carrard routinely operates for banks and large companies, with particular expertise in asset management and financial services, as well as digital capital markets. Transaction expert Beat Brechbühl and Dominik Oberholzer steer the team, with the latter being particularly active in the field of asset management and listed financial products. Luca Bianchi is often engaged in the regulation of financial services, institutions and infrastructures, while Jean-Luc Chenaux’s expertise encompasses IPO and capital market transactions.
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Testimonials
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- 'The team is pragmatic, solution-oriented and efficient. Besides that, they understand entrepreneurship from the bottom, take new roads and find innovative solutions.'
‘Beat Brechbühl is highly efficient, a very strong negotiator and quick in analysis; he is very business oriented and fun to work with. The whole team is recommended.'
- 'High personal commitment and partner attention.'
‘Beat Brechbühl is highly experienced. He is a good leader (not only an advisor), hands-on, very efficient and pragmatic and comes up with creative solutions. Especially worth mentioning his proximity to his clients and his complete understanding of their needs.'
'Luca Bianchi is very quick and smart, thorough but pragmatic, highly efficient and very nice and good advice.’
‘They follow an “embedded lawyers” concept in which one or several specialists dedicates his time for the project or the case only and is ready to be on site.'
'They use technology tools (such as data processing in DD) but in a smart way: we as the clients don’t see it, but we profit with respect to efficiency and billing.’
‘Beat Brechbühl is precise, fast and pragmatic.'
Key clients
- Bank Vontobel
- BKW AG
- BV Holding/Skan
- Dätwyler Holding Inc.
- Deutsche Bank
- Disruptive Issuance PCC Ltd
- Edisun Power Europe AG
- Franklin Templeton
- Galenica
- Kursaal Bern AG
- Macquarie
- MoonLake Immunotherapeutics AG
- Neur.on
- RealUnit Schweiz AG
- STILLE AB
- Sygnum Bank
- UBS AG
- Vaudoise Assurances Holding SA
- Vifor Pharma
Work highlights
- Advised BKW AG as borrower of its CHF 1.5bn syndicated multicurrency revolving credit facility. The transaction is BKW's largest debt funding transaction of all time.
- Advised Galenica on their successful placement of a bond of over CHF 240m.
- Advised Dätwyler Holding Inc. (SIX: DAE) on their successful placement of a CHF 240m fixed rate bond.
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Practice head
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Beat Brechbuehl, Dominik Oberholzer