S. Kathrin Schwesinger

S. Kathrin Schwesinger practices law in the New York office of White & Case LLP, where she advises both private equity clients and public companies in a broad range of industries on M&A and corporate governance matters. In 2000, she left Germany for a high school year abroad on the U.S. east coast, where she has lived ever since. She earned her B.A. at Middlebury College and her J.D. at Columbia Law School before launching into her career as a corporate lawyer in 2009 at a large international law firm in New York. Inspired by the Financial Crisis that marked the start of her career, her doctoral dissertation (University of Bayreuth) examines how personal liability can incentivize directors and officers to improve corporate governance.