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.