Peter W. Schroth / email
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.
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