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David is a corporate specialist with 25 years' experience advising on private M&A, private equity, venture capital and restructuring transactions.  Over his career, he has advised clients across a range of sectors including technology, media, life sciences, retail, financial services and sport (football) but concentrates more and more on the hospitality and leisure sector where he heads the firm’s leisure practice and is acknowledged as one of the country’s most respected advisers and commentators.

His leisure practice spans the vast leisure spectrum to include acting for hotel, restaurant, gym, theatre, travel, bar, private members club, visitor attraction and catering (stadium and corporate) clients as well as tech companies involved in the virtual / cloud kitchen space.

In particular, his restaurant practice involves him representing owners, operators and investors of some of the most iconic premium dining, casual dining and early-stage restaurant and bar brands in the UK.

David is qualified both in the UK and Australia, where he earned his BA/LLB and worked with Corrs Chambers Westgarth .

1993 – Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice, College of Law, Sydney, Australia 1992 – Bachelor of Arts (Political Science) and Laws, University of NSW, Sydney Australia 1986 – Rotary International Scholarship, Canada