David is a Partner in TMT, Data & Sourcing practice in the UK.
David is a transactions lawyer who focusses on the technology and telecommunications sectors. David advises tech and telecoms corporates and investors on a wide range of transactions, including joint ventures and acquisitions, technology development and adoption projects, major systems and networks projects, business transformation projects, technology licensing, data licensing and complex commercial arrangements.
David particularly enjoys transactions which aim to harness the transformational powers of technology in other sectors. With this in mind, he works closely with our clients in other sectors to help structure and implement their technology-driven strategies.
Recognised by the UK directories, David has a leading technology and telecoms practice. David holds a first class MSC in Physics and Philosophy from the University of Oxford and was a Theodore Scholar at Balliol College. He enjoys the increasing overlap between technology-enabled businesses and his passion for science fiction.
Clients say “David added a lot of value to the project. He contributed top-quality strategic advice to the project.” and “Genuine interest in our unique issues and commitment to finding practical solutions, via a collaborative approach.”
Experience & expertise
Selected matters
- Virgin Media O2 (and, before that, Telefónica UK/O2) on its mobile network deployment and sharing arrangements with Vodafone, and its deployment of 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G technologies
- Virgin Media O2, Telefónica and Liberty Global on the £360 million sale of a minority stake in Cornerstone, the leading UK mobile infrastructure provider, to GLIL Infrastructure
- Transport for London on a range of technology projects:
- on its procurement of a new service provider for its revenue collection and ticketing technology services
- on the replacement and improvement of the current automatic vehicle location system for the London bus network and London Trams and the procurement and integration of associated upgraded telecommunications and data transmission capability
- on the re-procurement of the IT systems and services supporting London's congestion charging, low emission zone and traffic enforcement operations involving the design and implementation of a new bespoke IT platform
- on its exit from a PFI contract for the design, construction, operation and maintenance of a networked digital radio and telecommunications system for use on the London Underground network and the negotiation of replacement contractual arrangements for its transition to a new service model for the operation and upgrade of this safety critical system
- Ocado Group on the formation, launch and customer contracts for Ocado Intelligent Automation (“OIA”), to provide Ocado's automated fulfilment technology to third party facilities in non-grocery verticals
- Bharti and its consortium with the UK Government (through the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy), on their USD $1 billion acquisition of OneWeb, the US-based company that builds a constellation of satellites to enable global broadband access, in connection with its US court-supervised Chapter 11 sale process
- OneWeb on many important stages in its growth:
- on investments from SoftBank Group and EchoStar / Hughes Network Systems which will, together with the recent $1 billion investment from Bharti and HMG, bring the total funding to $1.4 billion
- in relation to its combination with Eutelsat Communications, a listed French satellite and telecommunications company
- secondary listing of OneWeb in London
- in relation to the commercialisation of its low earth orbit satellite capacity in the Middle East and North Africa through a joint venture with NEOM
- a 'big 4' on multiple large scale, business critical global technology product roll-out projects
- an insurance company in relation to the commercialisation of a suite of insurance risk analysis tools (comprised of various datasets and software products, via a platform-as-a-service offering), providing clients with access to a variety of insurance risk assessment products and associated data reporting
- a leading financial services technology provider on the establishment of a fintech platform integration providing independent financial advisers with a more streamlined set of practice management capability
- Tryg A/S, the Scandinavian insurance company, in its £7.2 billion recommended cash offer, together with Canadian co-bidder Intact Financial Corporation, for RSA Insurance Group, and the complex, high-value separation arrangements implemented as part of the post-acquisition allocation of the RSA business
- National Grid on the UK Government’s proposals for the future role, organisational design and phased implementation of a future system operator for the UK gas transmission networks
- AustralianSuper on its investing €1.5 billion in Vantage Data Centers Europe, Middle East and Africa, one of the fastest growing hyperscale data centre platforms in the region
- High Speed Two (HS2) Limited on the technology and telecommunications related elements of the HS2 project
- ElectraLink on data transfer agreements in the electricity industry, data analysis activities and the use of industry data, and its associated key supplier arrangements
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