Areas of practice:All civil aspects of international and domestic insolvency, fraud and restructuring; personal insolvency; company law; banking and general commercial domestic international litigation.

David has acted in connection with all the major insolvencies in the last 20 or so years. He has also acted for a number of Government entities, including the Financial Services Authority. He has been involved in reported case law dealing with the collapse of BCCI and other large insolvencies. Most recently, in connection with Lehman Brothers, he has been consulted by various hedge funds and related creditors.

He is currently heavily involved, as are many of his colleagues, in the insolvency of MF Global.

Apart from appearing in cases involving officeholders, creditors and other related entities concerning major recent insolvencies, he has been involved in a major international arbitration in front of the International Chamber of Commerce involving a major dispute between a Chinese conglomerate and a French manufacturer. He has also been consulted in relation to major personal insolvency cases involving substantial estates.

David has acted as an expert on major overseas insolvencies and administrations is frequently involved in transatlantic matters involving the Cross-Border Insolvency Regulations.

He sits on various committees related to insolvency law reform, in particular, a committee set up by INSOL Europe to consider both the harmonisation of EC domestic insolvency laws and the reform of the EC Regulation on Insolvency

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He is bilingual at French and has a working knowledge of Italian and German.