David advises clients across all aspects of contentious and non-contentious EU and UK antitrust and competition law, as well foreign direct investment (FDI) and subsidy control.
His merger control work includes high profile and complex UK and cross-border global transactions where he advises on regulatory risk and mitigation strategy and manages the regulatory approval processes. His contentious work includes acting for clients subject to the European Commission interchange fee investigations as well as Competition and Markets Authority pharmaceutical probes.
David’s clients span a broad range of industry sectors including financial services, retail and various consumer goods, technology media & telecommunications, energy and infrastructure. He has spent time on secondment to the CMA where he was part of the policy team, and into the competition team of a multinational universal bank.
David trained as a barrister and was called to the Bar of Lincoln’s Inn before training, qualifying and spending many years in the competition team of Freshfields in London. He joined the firm in 2020 before becoming a partner in the competition team of our Disputes & Investigations practice.
