David has over 25 years of contentious experience for a broad range of clients – household names, SME’s, small businesses, entrepreneurs, sole traders and individuals in assorted sectors, with a niche practice in the telecommunication and print managed areas.
His overarching aim is to deliver a positive experience and outcome for clients with simple or complex problems.
David is a Legal 500 Leading Mediator (2024), CMC registered (2025), CEDR and ADR Group accredited and an accredited online mediator.
His mediation approach is hands on, gaining the parties’ confidence early, building on common ground, then focusing on the difficult areas to break down barriers and find workable and commercially viable solutions.
He recognises the need to tailor each mediation to suit the different personalities and facts given no two mediations are the same.
Expertise:
•Contractual disputes for companies and individuals
•Partnership & shareholder disputes.
•Property/development disputes (overage, covenants, easements, nuisance, build out, contractual, dilapidations, rights of way).
•Equipment leasing disputes.
•New Road and Street Works Act/Telecommunications Code disputes.
•Franchising disputes.
Sample mediations undertaken:
•A substantial multinational license agreement dispute in the biotechnology sector.
•An equipment leasing dispute between a funder and national gym group.
•A 30 year-long property/trust dispute fought in more than one jurisdiction.
•A large/international web solution and associated Commercial Agents Regulations Claim.
•A long running B2B dispute concerning a gas supply.
•A partnership dispute relating to the dissolution of a dental practice.
•An international supply agreement dispute over the provision of specialist materials.
•A contractual dispute arising from the prosecution of a food business operator.
•A breach of contract/trust claim involving pleaded allegations of exemplary damages for fraudulent conduct.
•A national franchising dispute in a niche sector.
•A long running contractual claim regarding breaches of an Associations Articles and Rules concerning Governing Officers and Members with a subsidiary harassment claim.
•A hotly contested dispute between a gas and electricity supplier to a multi-site property company where a Winding Up Petition had been issued and an application made to restrain advertisement.
•A boundary dispute involving assorted allegations and disproportionate costs.