David has been a practising lawyer for more than 30 years, specialising in corporate finance, particularly public takeovers, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and equity issues. He joined Clifford Chance as a trainee, qualified in 1976 and has been a Partner since 1981.

David was global head of the Corporate practice during the late 1990s to 2005. In late 2003, David was appointed as the Firm's Global COO.

In May 2006 David became Global Managing Partner of Clifford Chance and was re-appointed for a second four-year term in May 2010.

Clifford Chance is one of the world's leading law firms, helping clients achieve their goals by combining the highest global standards with local expertise. The Firm has unrivalled scale and depth of legal resources across the four key markets of the Americas, Asia, Europe and the Middle East, and focuses on the core areas of commercial activity: capital markets; corporate and M&A; finance and banking; real estate; tax; pensions and employment; litigation and dispute resolution. Clifford Chance has 32 offices in 22 countries with some 3,200 legal advisers. The Firm also operates a co-operation agreement with Al-Jadaan & Partners Law Firm in Saudi Arabia.


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