Damien Conus
LL.M.
VISCHER AG
work Rue du Cloître 2 - 4 (Visitors please use the entrance Rue du Cloître 2) P.O. Box
1211 Geneva 3
Switzerland
- work +41 58 211 35 00
- damien.conus@vischer.com
Damien Conus is one of the founder of VISCHER's Geneva location. He has been involved in the last 15 years in several tens of equity transactions, such as financing rounds or M&A deals, both in Switzerland and abroad, acting for entrepreneurs and owners, venture capital and private equity firms, start-ups/scale-ups, industrial players and financial corporations. Along his corporate expertise that he has lectured at the university, high school institutes and various training modules for about 10 years, he sits on several boards and regularly advises C-level executives and board members of SMEs and global brands on a large scope of corporate and commercial issues.
Damien Conus holds a JD (summa cum laude) from the University of Fribourg and a postgraduate academic degree (LL.M.'01 with honors) from the University of California, Berkeley Law.
Education
- University of Fribourg (lic. utr.iur., summa cum laude, 1997)
- University of California, Berkeley Law (LL.M., 2001)
Practice
- Special Start-up Coach for Innosuisse, 2018-2019
- CPV Partners (Geneva), founding partner, 2011-2019
- Lecturer (contract law) at the HEG Geneva, 2013-2016
- Lecturer for the CTI Entrepreneurship Training Program (EPFL Innovation Park), 2013-2017
- Lecturer, University of Fribourg, 2006-2014
- Tavernier Tschanz, attorney-at-law, 2002-2010
- Graduate research assistant to Prof. Pierre Tercier, Chair of Contract Law/Swiss Code of Obligations, University of Fribourg, 1997-2001
Mandates as board member
- Member of the board of directors of several companies
Memberships in Associations
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Swiss Private Equity & Corporate Finance Association (SECA)
Languages
- French
- English
Practice areas
- Contract Law
- Corporate Governance
- Corporate Law
- Insolvency Law
- M&A
- Private Equity
- Restructuring and Reorganisation
- Venture Capital
