Exchange Chambers

Commercial; Insolvency

David has a broad commercial, chancery and insolvency practice. His clients include banks, insolvency practitioners, multi-national corporations and small businesses. Across those areas, David regularly appears in the County and High Courts for interlocutory hearings and trials and has a busy paper practice. He is frequently instructed by insolvency office holders and their assignees in actions against directors.  

Examples of David’s recent work include:

• Acting for the officeholder in a multi-day trial concerning various TUV and preference claims
• Acting for the Liquidators in a case dealing with allegations of misfeasance in relation to an overdrawn director’s loan account.
• Acting for the Liquidators in the appeal of a rejection of a proof, said to be worth in excess of £3,000,000.
• Acting for the Trustee in Bankruptcy in Order for Sale proceedings, where the wife of the bankrupt alleged to have equity in the property.
• Acting for joint administrators in an application to make a retrospective administration order where creditor consent to extend the original term had not been properly obtained (applying Re Biomethane (Castle Easton) Ltd)
• Acting for a major bank in relation to a high value return of goods application
• Appearing at trial on behalf of UK lenders defending fraudulent misrepresentation claims brought pursuant to s.75 of the CCA 1974

Called 2014

Northern Circuit Northern Chancery Bar Association Northern Circuit Commercial Bar Association

Nottingham High School, 1999-2006 BA, History with French, The University of York, l’Université de Provence Aix Marseille I (II.i, 2006-2010) GDL, BPP Waterloo (Commendation, 2012-2013) BPTC, Nottingham Law School (Very Competent, 2013-2014) Before coming to the Bar, David worked for Univar, a large chemical distribution company and the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales

David is a keen sportsman and when he is not spending time with his young family, he enjoys playing and watching football, cricket and tennis.