Caroline Conrad-Behr is a partner of Conrad&Partner Advokatur and specializes in advising start-ups and small and middle-sized enterprises in all legal matters, namely corporate, commercial contracts and HR matters (including raising funds, joint ventures and other cooperation agreements and sale and purchase of participations and assets).

Caroline grew up in Barcelona, Spain, and in the French speaking part of Switzerland. She holds a bilingual law degree (German/French) from the University of Fribourg/Switzerland and a master in International Business Law from ESADE Law School, Barcelona, Spain.

After taking the Bar Exam, Caroline worked as an M&A and corporate lawyer in a Zurich law firm. She then worked for more than six years as an In-house Counsel and M&A Manager of a privately held Swiss company, a leading global producer of calcium carbonate and a worldwide distributor of specialty chemicals with a 130 years of experience and 175 plants in 50 countries. In 2013, Caroline built up her own start-up company together with two scientists in the field of Life Sciences, was a co-owner and a member of the Executive Management and the Board of Directors.

Early 2018 she joined Conrad&Partner Advokatur as a partner.

Caroline has broad experience in the area of corporate and M&A, commercial contracts with an international component (including distribution and agency) and employment matters.

Caroline’s working languages are German, Spanish, French and English. Further, she understands, reads and speaks Italian and Catalan.