David Aufhauser is a partner of the firm, which he originally joined in 1977.  His areas of practice include arbitration and mediation, litigation, financial services counseling, Patriot Act and FCPA compliance, OFAC and CIFIUS related matters, and legislative and executive branch investigations.

David has previously served as a Managing Director and Global General Counsel of the UBS AG investment bank, and as the General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Treasury, supervising the Department’s legal functions in International Affairs, Domestic Banking and Finance, Enforcement, the Internal Revenue Service, the U.S. Bureau of Customs, the Office of Foreign Asset Controls, the Secret Service, ATF, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network and the U.S. Mint.

David currently serves as a senior adviser at the Center of Strategic & International Studies (CSIS), a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, an executive committee director of the Atlantic Council, a trustee of the St. Albans School of Public Service, and has served on the Global Markets Advisory Board of the U.S. government’s National Intelligence Council.

While at Treasury, David served as the Secretary’s representative on the Department of Justice Corporate Fraud Task Force, the chairman of the National Security Council’s policy coordinating committee on terrorist financing, counsel to the Secretary on the President’s working group on financial markets, and as a board member of the Federal Financing Bank.  Mr. Aufhauser also had supervision over implementation of Treasury’s economic sanctions program and the Patriot Act, and worked on a wide range of issues, including Iraq and Afghanistan reconstruction, sovereign debt restructuring, tax reform, money laundering, China trade and currency matters, and reform of international financial institutions.

For his public service, David was awarded the Treasury Department’s highest honor, the Alexander Hamilton Award, and has been cited with awards for leadership and distinction in diplomacy, intelligence and law enforcement by the U.S. Department of State, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the U.S. Secret Service.

Mr. Aufhauser has testified frequently before Congress and has been a guest lecturer at the law schools of Harvard, Chicago, and Georgetown, and at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, American University, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, the Brookings Institute and the University of Virginia Miller Center for Public Affairs.

David received his MBA from Harvard Business School and his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania.  He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Wesleyan University.  He is married and has three children.