Practice Areas
David specialises in company law, corporate and personal insolvency, commercial fraud, banking, commercial litigation and related professional negligence matters.
Career
David is instructed in relation to shareholder disputes, and by liquidators, administrators and trustees in bankruptcy, and by banks and their customers in relation to securities, commercial fraud and asset recovery, and with regard to confidential information, partnership, sale of goods and other contractual and commercial matters.
He is listed as a leading junior in the current editions of Chambers & Partners (Chancery: Commercial; Company; Restructuring/Insolvency) and Legal 500 (Company; Insolvency).
He has been called to both the Bar of Gibraltar for specific cases, and to the Bar of Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, in the territory of the British Virgin Islands. He has also been appointed a Recorder (Civil).
He regularly represents clients at mediations, especially in relation to shareholders’ disputes.
David is qualified to accept Public Access instructions and does so in appropriate matters.
David regularly acts in commercial disputes, especially those involving company law aspects, and issues of fiduciary duties. He has particular expertise in shareholders’ disputes and unfair prejudice claims.
He is also instructed in claims involving allegations of breach of directors’ fiduciary duties, and in disputes relating to share sale agreements.
David acts regularly in insolvency matters, both corporate and personal, instructed by liquidators, administrators and trustees in bankruptcy, by banks and their customers in relation to securities, and by directors and shareholders and other counterparties to proceedings by and against officeholders.