David is a commercial barrister specialising in share sale disputes and shareholder, directors’ duties and LLP disputes. He is particularly sought after in contentious M&A matters, including warranty and indemnity claims, fraud and misrepresentation disputes, notice issues, earn-out and deferred consideration claims, and expert determination.
He also has substantial experience in heavyweight commercial litigation, commercial fraud and senior-executive disputes.
He is regularly instructed in business-critical High Court litigation, including urgent applications for injunctive relief.
Recent work includes securing the strike-out of multi-million-pound directors’ duties claims, summary judgment in complex shareholder litigation, and acting in substantial SPA, good leaver / bad leaver and business protection disputes.
David is ranked as a leading junior for both company and commercial litigation by Chambers & Partners and The Legal 500, including Tier 1 in Company.
Market feedback from the guides in recent years includes:
“David is really user friendly and engages with the commercial issues surrounding the case immediately. He has a good strategic approach to matter and his written work and oral advocacy are top notch.” (Legal 500 2026)
“He is exceptionally bright and a really good tactician and strategist.” (Chambers & Partners 2024)
“David is extremely bright, resourceful and diligent. He is a fine choice of junior counsel for heavyweight corporate and commercial disputes.” (Chambers & Partners)
“He has a strategic brilliance beyond his years.” (Chambers & Partners)
“Extremely thorough, bright and commercial minded. A go to junior for corporate and commercial disputes.” (Legal 500)
“David is a star; he is has an excellent technical command of complex matter and a keen eye for tactics which gives him the edge over other more senior counsel.” (Legal 500)
“Has a huge wealth of knowledge and is very client-friendly.” (Chambers & Partners)
“He has a strategic brilliance beyond his years.” (Chambers & Partners)
“Very able, user-friendly and incredibly bright.” (Chambers & Partners)
“He is a stellar black-letter lawyer, as well as immensely hard-working – a great team-player. He will go the extra five miles for the client and find the main road, not an irrelevant bye-way.” (Legal 500)
“Incredibly bright, very responsive, very personable and affable, able to articulate complex issues in a very user-friendly way to clients.” (Legal 500)
“Very clever, very clear in his advice and willing to go the extra mile. He’s superb” (Chambers & Partners)
“Excellent to work with, David always provides clear and commercial advice” (Chambers & Partners)
“Impressive in court, extremely bright and very user friendly” (Chambers & Partners)
“A great communicator, David is very good with clients and very down to earth” (Chambers & Partners )
“Exceptionally analytical with a great eye for detail, his memory is astonishing” (Legal 500)
“Definitely someone you want on your team” (Chambers & Partners)
