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Corporate and commercial
As head of the firm's corporate and commercial practice, David’s broad transactional experience includes acquisitions, disposals, take-overs and mergers, asset sales/purchases, joint ventures and company restructuring. He also advises clients on a range of corporate and commercial matters, including company/partnership formation, partnership/shareholders agreements and employment issues.
David has particular experience in the field of sport, acting amongst others for prospective purchasers of Premiership and Football League clubs in takeovers. He is also at the forefront of the development in England of the investment in and transfer of the economic rights of sportsmen and women.
For property investor clients, he has particular expertise in the disposal and acquisition of corporate and similar structures which assist in mitigating stamp duty land tax.
• Acting for investors in the economic rights of football players playing in the Premier League and the top divisions in other European Countries as well as in South America
• Advising on a £430 million acquisition of a mixture of offshore and onshore companies owning 180 petrol stations
• Acting on a series joint ventures for a leading UK celebrity magazine and newspaper publisher with a combined value in excess of £280m
• Acting for the prospective purchasers in their takeover of a Premier League Football Club
• Advising on the £166 million sale of a group of companies with an industrial portfolio
• Acting on the acquisition and financing of 545 public houses, worth £163 million
• Advising on the £25 million sale to a UK plc of a leading UK independent internet service provider.
David joined Teacher Stern as a trainee in 1989.
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