Lukas Brunner
Lukas Brunner combines more than 15 years of experience in banking and financing advisory with a legal education from the University of St. Gallen. He structures and negotiates debt financing and interest rate hedging for property owners, companies and institutional clients.
Previously, as CEO and board member, he founded and led a Zurich-based financing boutique, grew it to 15 employees and successfully handed it over to successors. Under his leadership, financings of more than CHF 4.5 bn were optimised – for hotel groups, family offices, SMEs, real estate companies, public-law corporations and cooperatives. Before that, he was Director Debt Advisory, a member of senior staff at Zürcher Kantonalbank, and worked at Rothschild and Julius Bär.
- Debt advisory & bank negotiations
- Financing structure & interest rate hedging
- Business succession & transactions
- Construction law & contract review
- Mandate management through to completion
- Overall management of FiPAX
Legal practice 2024–2025 at commercial law firms in Zurich and St. Gallen and in the permits department of the public administration. Financial and succession planning for entrepreneurs and executives, including company acquisitions and sales.