David brings more than 40 years of professional experience in business transactions counseling to his clients. His experience includes advising buyers, sellers, equity investors, and financial institutions on mergers, acquisitions, capital raise efforts, succession planning and related transitional matters. He was a partner in a Chicago-based national law firm where he represented business ownership interests and local, regional, and national banks as well as commercial finance groups regarding a wide range of financial and transactional matters. Following retirement from his equity partnership position, he joined a Scottsdale, Arizona based M&A advisory firm where he continued to advise businesses on buy and sell side matters. Over the course of his professional career he handled numerous complex M&A transactions as well as workout, restructuring, and reorganization matters for lenders and business interests. Asmus received his J.D. from St. Louis University and his B.A. from Saint Ambrose University in Iowa.