Mergers & Acquisitions

David is a partner in Cooper Grace Ward’s commercial workgroup.  He has over 25 years experience in delivering legal solutions to all types of business.

David specialises in acting for buyers and sellers of SMEs.  This includes advising on structuring transactions, negotiation of terms, due diligence and completion.  He often works closely with accountants in metropolitan and regional Queensland to achieve the best tax outcomes for business owners involved in buying and selling businesses.

With this background he has wide experience in dealing with real property, finance, intellectual property, information technology and tax.

David’s recent experience includes:

• Sale of the business and land holdings of a Queensland engineering company.
• The sale to a listed company of a business in the leisure industry.
• Advising one of the world’s largest development and construction companies on a joint venture for a major redevelopment project in Brisbane.
• Sale of a helicopter charter business for $22 million.

David has been a member of the Property Law & Practice Committee and the Securities Law Committee of the Queensland Law Society.  He is a director of the Queensland Law Foundation.

David is a partner in Cooper Grace Ward’s corporate and commercial workgroup. He has extensive experience in company law and practice competition and consumer law (formerly Trade practices law). He is a Foundation Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management and a Director of Indue Limited and the Chairman of its Corporate Governance Committee.

Having held past positions on public company boards, he has a commercial approach to legal problem solving.

David has delivered many papers on Corporations Act issues, the Competition and Consumer Act and on corporate governance.

His board experience includes service on audit and risk committees of public companies and as Chairman of the operational risk management committee of one public company and of the Corporate Governance Committee of another. With this experience he understands the need for companies to be managed with clear direction and efficiency.

As a lawyer he has had extensive experience in commercial and corporate matters and advises extensively on the duties and responsibilities of directors and officers. His work includes mergers and acquisitions, capital raisings, directors’ duties, joint ventures advice on strategies for corporate goals within a legal framework, compliance strategies and general commercial documentation.