David Greene

Practice Areas

Class Action and Finance Litigation

Career

David specialises in commercial litigation including competition claims and claims on behalf of shareholders, and is Head of the Class Action and Finance Litigation department. He was articled with Edwin Coe and qualified in 1980, becoming a Partner in 1984 and Senior Partner in April 2011.

David served as the 176th President of the Law Society – the independent professional body for solicitors in England & Wales. In this role, he represents the organisation at home and abroad, and is Chair of their Council. David won the Law Society’s presidential election for 2018 and was appointed as Deputy Vice President in July 2018, becoming Vice President in 2019 and President in 2020-1.

He has developed a strong following in contentious competition work being involved in cases in front of the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT), High Court and Competition Commission. He has for many years advised sovereign states on disputes in international tribunals and particularly specialises in work involving governments in sub-Saharan Africa.

David was appointed by the Lord Chancellor to the Civil Procedure Rules Committee in 1997. He was then appointed in 2002 as a member of the Civil Justice Council. He is the author of ‘Civil Procedure Rules‘, an associate editor of ‘Civil Practice Manual‘, on the editorial board of Butterworths’ ‘The Civil Court Practice‘ (‘the Green Book‘), a contributor to the Law Society’s ‘Civil Litigation Manual‘, and the author of two titles for Atkins Court Forms.

David has worked on numerous high profile cases including:

- Railtrack shareholders’ action against the Government

- Northern Rock

- Resort Hotels

- E-District

- many shareholder groups in complaints to the FSA and in private claims including Langbar, Mayflower and Torex

depositors in KSF (Isle of Man)

- investors in the Madoff fraud

- Stanford Investment Fund.

Professional Memberships

Founding Co-President of The Collective Redress Lawyers Association (CORLA)

Council member of the Law Society. His seat is for international practice

President of the London Solicitors Litigation Association

Member of the Executive Committee of the London Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators

Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators

CEDR accredited mediator

Assessor for the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants