About David
David serves as the leader of the firm’s Corporate and Tax Practice Group. He counsels clients in all phases of business and corporate law and regularly handles substantial transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and other equity financings, and securitization transactions. David has extensive experience in transactions involving manufacturing and distribution concerns, as well as the health care industry, and in representing buyers and sellers of businesses in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings.
David received his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College. He received his J.D. from Vanderbilt University where he served as Executive Administrative Editor of the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law. David served as Law Clerk to The Honorable U.S. District Judge Robert B. Propst, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama in 1982-1983. He was admitted to the Alabama Bar in 1982 and the Tennessee Bar in 1994. David is a native of Massillon, Ohio.
David is listed in the prestigious The Best Lawyers in America publication in the area of Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law.
David is a member of the American Bar Association, the Alabama State Bar, and the Birmingham Bar Association. He was elected in 2007 to the Executive Committee of the Birmingham Bar Association for a three year term ending in 2010. David will serve as President-Elect (2010-2011) and then President (2011-2012) of the Birmingham Sunrise Rotary Club, where he has served as a member of the Board of Directors since 2007. He is a member of the Executive Board of the Greater Alabama Council (Boy Scouts of America), and recently completed three years of service on the Alumni Council of Dartmouth College.
What community projects are you involved in? I recently concluded seven years of service as the Scoutmaster of a Boy Scout Troop in Birmingham that was founded in 1942. I continue to be involved with our Troop as an Assistant Scoutmaster, particularly as a mentor to Eagle Scout candidates. I also serve as a Vice-Chairman of the Vulcan District of the Greater Alabama Council. I am a member of the Dartmouth Club of Alabama, the Birmingham Venture Club and the Sunrise Rotary Club.
What advice would you give to a young student in law school? Take a wide variety of courses; don’t assume that your career will involve the legal specialty that seems attractive to you when you are in law school.