Steuart L. Pittman

Steuart Pittman, one of Shaw Pittman's founding partners, has had a distinguished career in law and government since his graduation from Yale Law School in 1948. His World War II experience was in Africa with Pan American Airways Africa, in India with China National Aviation Corporation and in China with the U.S. Marine Corp (Silver Star).

Over more than forty years of private practice, he has represented a wide range of national and international clients in the full spectrum of investment, lending, and international banking matters. Prior to founding Shaw Pittman in 1954, Mr. Pittman practiced with the New York firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore and served as Assistant General Counsel for the Foreign Operations Administration's investment guaranty and lending programs and on the President's interagency committee on methods of increasing private investment and lending in foreign-aid-recipient countries.

From 1954 until 1961, when he was appointed by President Kennedy to be an Assistant Secretary of Defense, Mr. Pittman's practice concentrated on international investment and finance. During that period he held various consultancies: one with the Second Hoover Commission for which he authored a report on international investment and lending; one with the State Department negotiating investment guaranty agreements in seven Latin American countries; and one with the Development Loan Fund establishing precedents for mixed public and private financing methods for third-world projects. He also lectured extensively for the Practicing Law Institute, the Southwestern Legal Foundations, and Harvard Law School.

Since his return to Shaw Pittman in 1964, Mr. Pittman has continued his representation of international banking and corporate clients and has served as Trustee and on the Executive Committee of the Hudson Institute; on the Board of Overseers and the Executive Committee of the Center for Naval Analyses, as well as on its Marine Corps Advisory committee and its DOD Reorganization Advisory Committee; as a Director of Royal Ordnance, Inc.; on the Advisory Board of the Federal Emergency Management Agency; as a Director of the American Civil Defense Association; and as a Trustee of the Chesapeake Environmental Protection Association.