David advises on a wide range of corporate tax issues and transactions, in particular those with an international element.

David is a partner on the tax and ERISA team in Hunton Andrews Kurth’s London office. He has extensive experience advising on the tax aspects of cross-border M&A transactions, structured finance transactions (advising both asset originators and arrangers), as well as the UK and international tax aspects of corporate group reorganizations.

David is the author of a number of articles in various tax publications and is a committee member of the UK Branch of the International Fiscal Association.

Relevant Experience

• Advised a major international pharmaceuticals producer and numerous other multinational operating groups in the context of trade receivables securitizations.
• Advised several European multinationals on the UK tax aspects of their UK energy projects.
• Advised Lactalis in connection with the acquisition of Rachel’s Dairy, by means of a mixed asset and share deal.
• Advised SNCF (French state railway) on the merger of its interest in the Eurostar link between Paris, London and Brussels into a single joint venture company.
• Advised several major international vehicle companies on the structuring of the financing of their fleet operations throughout Europe.

Bar Admissions

Education
JD, College of Law, London, 2000BA, Oxford University, 1998

• Choose Your Location Carefully, FT Advisor
• Spring Budget 2021—views from the market, Lexis®PSL Tax
• INSIGHT: Taxation in the Time of Covid-19 and the Post-Crisis Landscape, Bloomberg Tax
• INSIGHT: Facilitating Offshore Tax Evasion—What Can We Learn From the German Cum-Ex Scandal?, Bloomberg Tax
• The U.K.’s Corporate Tax Landscape 2021, Bloomberg Tax
• INSIGHT: Why Taxation of Digital Services Continues to Occupy Center Stage, Bloomberg Tax
• Digital services tax update, Taxation
• It’s A Digital World, Taxation Magazine
• Spring Budget 2020 – Views From The Market
• The UK’s Digital Services Tax, Thomson Reuters’ Journal of International Taxation