David is the head of Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP's Waterloo Region Technology Law Group.

His practice focuses on advising technology and traditional companies on domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions; debt and equity financing; licensing, distribution and strategic alliance arrangements; and electronic commerce and Internet issues.

David's mergers and acquisitions work has included domestic and cross-border transactions involving public and private companies. Financings have included venture capital financings and IPOs and various types of credit facilities. Technology agreements have included system development, research, distribution, strategic alliance and technology transfer agreements.

Clients include software developers, Internet-related companies, advanced manufacturers, computer products distributors, financial institutions, auto parts manufacturers, medical products companies and alternative energy companies.

David has been recognized by the 2008 Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada as "most frequently recommended" in Corporate Mid-Market.

He received an LL.B. from the University of Toronto, a B.Math from the University of Waterloo and a Certificat d'Études Politiques from l'Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris. He was also a Research Assistant for a federal Member of Parliament.

David is a member of the International Technology Law Association, the Canadian Information Technology Law Association, the Committee on Negotiated Acquisitions of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association and is a present and former director of various corporations and community organizations including Waterloo Research and Technology Accelerator Centre and Communitech Technology Association Inc.

David writes a regular column in the Kitchener-Waterloo Record on business law matters.