Schwager, David E.

As Of Counsel to Dansker & Aspromonte, Mr. Schroth specializes in international business matters as well as financial and business matters in New York and Connecticut. His recent practice includes litigation of U.S. and international contract disputes; negotiated settlement of business disputes; representation of clients before regulatory agencies; U.S. and international corporate transactions, including private mergers and acquisitions; import and export transactions; advice on compliance with federal and state banking law; Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the law of other countries relating to corruption; and such general corporate and business matters as contracts.

Mr. Schroth received his bachelor's degree from Shimer College, the Great Books College of Chicago, of which he is a member of the Board of Trustees. He received his first law degree and a master's degree in comparative law from the University of Chicago. After studying law in Germany and France, he earned an S.J.D. degree – the "Ph.D. in law" – from the University of Michigan, completing his dissertation while a law professor at Southern Methodist University and New York Law School.

He was a graduate fellow for two years at Harvard Law School and a Visiting Professor for two years in Minnesota, then left academia to practice law in New York City. After one year, however, he joined HSBC's Africa subsidiary as an in-house lawyer, from which he was promoted to Vice President and General Counsel. He completed two master's degrees in business and studied law at the College of Law of England and Wales and the Faculty of Law of the University of South Africa. After 16 years with HSBC, he became Professor of International Finance at the Hartford branch of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and also began developing his practice of international, financial and business law. He left Rensselaer in 2006 and has considerably increased the New York part of his practice since then.

Mr. Schroth has over 100 professional publications on foreign investment in the U.S.; representing foreign-owned businesses in the U.S.; joint ventures; doing business in Europe and European Union; doing business in Africa; U.S. bribery and corruption law; foreign corrupt practices law and anti-corruption treaties; mergers and acquisitions; corporate governance; law and language, legal translation; information technology and e-commerce; environmental law; torts and products liability; Constitutional law; human rights; private international law; and public international law. He is adept with legal documents in German, Dutch, French, Spanish and Portuguese and reads several other languages.

Mr. Schroth is Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of Lawyers without Borders.