AARON SCHILDHAUS is an international corporate and business lawyer
specializing in commercial transactions, trade and finance. He has written
and lectured on international relations, policy and trade throughout the
U.S., Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
Mr. Schildhaus has extensive experience with matters involving all the
countries of Western, Eastern and Central Europe, including those of the
former Soviet Union. He has advised major multinational corporations, as
well as small and medium-sized investors on transnational corporate
strategy, international sales and distribution, transborder business
alliances and joint ventures, and international transactions and trade.
Mr. Schildhaus has particular expertise in the international representation
of non-governmental organizations. In addition to assisting them with their
international strategy, he advises them on the structuring of their
operations in countries outside the United States, and provides general
legal advice on all matters concerning their international activities. Mr. Schildhaus is Chair of the American Bar Association's International Committee on NGO's and Not-for-Profit Organizations.
Mr. Schildhaus was a member of the corporate law department of PepsiCo, Inc.
for three years before moving to Paris in 1975, where he practiced for the
next ten years. Mr. Schildhaus was founder and president of The
International Business Law Firm and The European Business Law Firm. He now
continues his association with the European members of those firms, but is
now in solo private practice in Washington, DC.
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Mr. Schildhaus graduated with a J.D. degree from the Washington College of
Law, American University. Mr. Schildhaus received his Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and history
at the University of Vermont.
Mr. Schildhaus is a member of the District of Columbia Bar and the
Section of International Law and Practice of the American Bar Association,
where he chairs the International Committee on NGO's and Not-for-Profit Organizations. He
has been vice chair of the Europe 1992 Task Force, Chair and current vice Chair of the International Aviation
and Aerospace Law Committee, and past Chair of the International Service
Industries Committee. He is an active member of the International Bar
Association and the Union Internationale des Avocats. Mr. Schildhaus is
also a member of the Alternate Dispute Resolution Section, the Business Law
Section and the Air and Space Law Forum of the ABA.
Mr. Schildhaus speaks fluent French and has a working knowledge of German.
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