David focuses on knowledge management to support Torys’ Capital Markets and M&A practices. He monitors and advises the firm’s lawyers on regulatory and legal developments and trends in capital markets and M&A. David also manages and develops the firm’s precedents, legal content for the firm’s website and contributes to the firm’s publications in these areas.
David’s extensive experience across domestic and cross-border capital markets transactions includes public and private M&A, corporate finance transactions of all types, corporate restructurings, private equity, strategic investments and the creation and documentation of complex joint venture arrangements in the financial services, technology, mining and real estate industries.
David also has substantial experience in securities law, having represented a variety of issuers and underwriters in public offerings and listings on the TSX, as well as a variety of structured product offerings.
David has written extensively on a variety of M&A and securities law topics. He has also taught advanced securities regulation at various law schools across Ontario.