Partner


Contact Details

Expertise

David J. Rowland is a co-founder of Rowland & Petroff and is its managing partner. Mr. Rowland specializes in international legal transactions including art recovery, German property claims, real estate, business transactions, wills, trusts and estates, litigation, and international law. 

Mr. Rowland has represented claimants in several high profile art restitution cases, including the recovery of the “Watzmann” by Caspar David Friedrich and the restitution of the “Berlin Street Scene” by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. In addition, Mr. Rowland has worked in the area of German property restitution since 1990.

Mr. Rowland frequently lectures and contributes articles in the areas of German property claims and art restitution. He speaks  fluent German and French. 

Education

Trinity College, B.A. 1978. New York Law School, J.D. 1983. Diploma in Advanced International Legal Studies, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, 1987.

Admitted

New York State, 1984. U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of  New York, 1984. 

Memberships

American Bar Association, The Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the New York State Bar Association, and the New York County Bar Association.

Publications

"Reclaiming Property Along the Former Berlin Wall," New York Law Journal, Vol. 216-No. 65, 1996;
"Deadlines Affecting Property Claims in East Germany," New York Law Journal, Vol 208 No. 121, 1992;
"Compensation for Jewish Victims of the Nazi Regime," New York Law Journal, Vol. 204-No. 104, 1992;
"Deadline Looms for Filing East German Compensation Claims," New York Law Journal, Vol. 204-No. 65, 1990.
Co-author: with Dr. Eberhard Röhm, "Ausgleichsansprunch des Handelsvertretreters im U.S. - amerikanischen Recht," Bundesnachrichten für Aussenhandel, No. 64, 1983.