Andreas Bohrer is Lonza’s Chief Legal & Corporate Affairs Office
Effective 1 July 2025, Andreas Bohrer will cover the newly created role of Chief Legal & Corporate Affairs Office at Lonza, a Basel-based healthcare manufacturing company. Moreover, Bohrer will become a member of the company’s Executive Committee.
The profile
Bohrer’s legal expertise spans corporate law, mergers & acquisitions, corporate governance, leadership, and economics. His career began at international law firms in New York, Zurich, and Geneva, working at Lenz and Staehelin from 1999 to 2003. He then spent seven years at UBS, from 2003 to 2010, serving in different senior positions within the legal function.
Bohrer’s career in healthcare
From 2010 onwards, Bohrer worked at Novartis as head of transactions for the legal function first, being eventually appointed general counsel and member of the EC for the company’s Animal Health Division.
In 2015, he moved to Lonza as group general counsel and company secretary. During his tenure in the role, he has overseen the company’s legal, ethics & compliance and IP functions, as well as sustainability and ESG, enterprise risk management, insurance management and public affairs. Between 2020 and 2022, Bohrer led Lonza’s global Coronavirus Task Force.
