BAUM & Cie The firm's aim is to work in a context of personal relationships towards the rapid satisfaction of needs, at reasonable costs, of companies with interests in German speaking markets, by enabling the conclusion of international transactions with their German, Swiss and Austrian counterparts on a solid legal basis assuring a high degree of legal security. Communication with German speaking companies is not just an affair of language. Drawing up contracts and entering into negotiations equally require a thorough knowledge of the legal framework in which those companies are functioning.

BAUM & Cie represents its clients in affairs concerning industrial product liability. Working in close and cordial collaboration with european experts, the firm can furnish, apart from sound legal advice, detailed technical reports and analysis written in German, French, English or Dutch and assure a rapid presence on location.	BAUM & Cie assists its clients in conducting negociations and in drawing up commercial contracts as well as in their financial implications. Despite the growing importance of community law, it is necessary to take the legal particularities of German speaking countries into account, in particular concerning distribution law, collective procedures and the recovery of debts.
BAUM & Cie assists its clients in all issues relative to employment law and social security law, in individual as well as collective cases ranging from the establishment or the rupture of employment contracts, the preparation of redundancy schemes, the implementation of the 35 hour work week to affairs concerning work accidents and work related diseases.	BAUM & Cie assists its clients in construction law, in the preparation and execution of public and private projects, in collective business agreements or sub-contacting agreements including their implications concerning responsibility and insurance.
BAUM & Cie councils its clients in company law, in the formation, merger or division of companies and in selling or buying transactions (also when subject to insolvency procedures).	BAUM & Cie entertains close relations with business law firms in in Europe and uses German, French, English et Dutch in its daily work routine.