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David is a highly experienced lawyer specialising in Corporate & Commercial and Employment. His areas of expertise include:
- Company share sale and purchase agreements
- Company start-ups and shareholders agreements
- Corporate commercial
- Shareholder agreement
- Business matters
- Business sales and acquisitions
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Management buyouts and buy-ins
- Partnerships
- Company disputes
- Employment
- TUPE
- Intellectual Property
David's Experience
- David started out as a metallurgist and production manager before converting to law and qualifying as a solicitor 25 years ago.
- Between 1988 and 1990 he trained with Foysters, subsequently Davies Wallis Foyster in Blackburn and Manchester. In 1990 he moved on to Brabners in Preston as an assistant solicitor.
- From 1993 to 2001, David was a senior lecturer in law and Lancaster University lecturer in law at the University of Central Lancashire before becoming a Partner at Rawsthorns in Preston and then a Chairman at Marsden Rawsthorns between 1999 and 2010.
- David was the Managing Director of Dickson Haslam 2010 to 2013 which was acquired by Linder Myers where he remained a partner until joining Excello Law in June 2015.
David lives near Kendal in Cumbria, with his wife and 15 year old daughter. His hobbies and interests include; paragliding – he has flown in most of the world’s greater ranges.
He tests and reviews paragliders for a national magazine. He is a keen skier and hill walker and has climbed all 282 of the Munros i.e. Scotland’s 3000 ft. peaks, all of the 214 Wainwrights (Lakeland fells). David is a Manchester City Supporter.
Institute of Directors committee member of the Cumbria branch
Employment Lawyers Association
Federation of Small Businesses