Partner of L42 Capital Partners und BKlemen Beteiligungsgesellschaft. Bernhard advises in the field of corporate finance (M&A, capital raising and capital markets) and digital business models..

He has more than 10 years' experience with UBS, Morgan Stanley and J.P.Morgan in London, Frankfurt and Vienna, including more than 4 years with Morgan Stanley in Financial Institutions and more than 2 years with the M&A team for Germany. For J.P.Morgan he set up the business in Austria with a partner. He played a leading role in most of the EUR +250 million transactions in Austria and a large number in Germany.

Since leaving J.P.Morgan in 2018, he has acted as a consultant on a number of midcap transactions including as a founding shareholder in a IPO; a pre-IPO advisory mandate and several M&A mandates.

Bernhard is also General Partner of an Asia-focused venture capital fund he co-initiated and an entrepreneurial investor focused on scalable business models in the area of ​​software / B2B SaaS, medtech and biotech.