David Wood > Lindsays > Edinburgh, United Kingdom > Lawyer Profile
Lindsays Offices
CALEDONIAN EXCHANGE
19A CANNING STREET
EDINBURGH
EH3 8HE
United Kingdom
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David Wood
Work Department
Corporate, Technology and Education.
Position
David is a partner and head of the corporate and technology group. He specialises in corporate sales, mergers and acquisitions, MBO’s, joint ventures, investments, fund raisings and all types of general commercial and contractual arrangements. He regularly gets involved in establishing corporate joint ventures, as well as significant collaborative partnerships, strategic commercial projects and documenting and negotiating shareholder agreements.
David also advises in relation to non-contentious IP and IT matters with an emphasis on IT focused contracts such as software and hardware procurement, software licensing, e-commerce terms and conditions and policies. He also has considerable expertise in matters such as IP licensing, research and development agreements, data protection and freedom of information.
David deals with a number of key clients in the education sector, including the University of Edinburgh and the University of St Andrews.
Career
Trained Paull & Williamsons; qualified 1990; Dundas & Wilson 1992-2004; partner in corporate/technology 2001; partner Lindsays July 2004; head of corporate and technology group.
Education
Robert Gordon’s College, Aberdeen; University of Aberdeen (LLB; Diploma in Legal Practice).
Leisure
Golf, football.
Lawyer Rankings
Scotland > Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Edinburgh and Glasgow
Lindsays corporate group has a strong track record across a wide array of corporate advisory and transactional work including shareholder disputes, share buybacks, and joint ventures. Team head David Wood has extensive experience advising clients on M&A transactions over a multitude of sectors, with recent emphasis in the healthcare sector. Ian Mitchell brings over two decades of corporate and commercial experience, and also a strong background in advising on private equity transactions. Douglas Roberts left to join TLT in February 2023.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Private client > Family
- Insurance > Medical negligence: pursuer
- Insurance > Personal injury: pursuer
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and executries
- Real estate > Commercial property: Edinburgh and Glasgow
- Real estate > Commercial property: elsewhere in Scotland
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Edinburgh and Glasgow
- Employment > Employment