About our Consulting Firm
Founder of BAUMGARTEN Consulting is Dr. Mark-Oliver Baumgarten, LL.M.
He advises as to strategic, organizational and management issues, is an experienced leader of complex projects and supports companies also operatively. He is member of boards of directors and advisory boards of companies, associations and foundations and has lectured law and compliance at the ZHAW School of Management and Law. He is a specialist for FDIs (Foreign Direct Investments).
The Swiss citizen has been practising for 25 years as a business lawyer, was partner of a law firm and head of the banking department and, among others, management member of the Swiss Bankers Association SBA (head of the financial markets Switzerland department). Further, he was member of the legal committee of economiesuisse, of boards and expert committees of various industry organisations and of boards of private organisations (incl. health, education and culture) as well as politically active. Besides, as an air force captain he served in the Swiss Armed Forces Staff and in an air force brigade staff.
Mark-Oliver Baumgarten studied law at the University of California, Berkeley and at the University of Basel and received his doctorate in law (Dr. iur.) in Basel. He was admitted to the bar of Basel and holds an LL.M. from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, Philadelphia, USA. In 1998 he has published a much-noticed doctoral thesis in constitutional law (2nd edition in 2000), is co-author of the Swiss merger act, the stock exchange act and the financial market infrastructure act (all BSK editions) and publishes and lectures regularly on business and civil society topics. His latest monograph is about matters of institutional theory (published 2024).