Whether pursuing market opportunities or managing risk, clients view David as their call of first resort for strategic and trusted business and legal advice.
David relies on decades of business and transactional experience to provide clients with practical, goal-oriented legal counsel that touches on virtually all facets of their operations. He routinely serves clients in the role of outside general counsel and leads large, multidisciplinary teams in a broad range of corporate and transactional projects to achieve client objectives. Terms that describe David’s overarching skills include, among others, trusted adviser, strategic thinker, connector of dots, and problem solver.
David’s practice includes representation of a variety of local, national, and international companies from day-to-day operational matters to complex challenges and projects, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic alliances, sophisticated commercial transactions, business planning and strategies, real estate, corporate finance, and international transactions. David’s industry experience spans virtually all aspects of the commercial and business aviation industry, as well as the automotive, manufacturing, hospitality, and technology industries, and he also routinely represents entrepreneurs and startup companies in developing, organizing, and financing emerging companies.
In particular, David is leader of the firm’s aviation practice team and boasts deep experience in the commercial and private/business aviation industry, serving as special counsel for domestic and international commercial airlines in connection with thousands of new and used large commercial aircraft orders (firm and options) and related acquisition, disposition, and financing transactions. He has also handled significant airport leasing, development, and related issues and transactions, sales and property taxation issues, and subsidiary dispositions and acquisitions. He also has counseled clients on transactional and regulatory aspects of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) and in the area of Advanced Air Mobility (AAM), including USDOT and FAA matters.
David also has served in an outside general and special counsel role to major maintenance, repair, and overhaul facilities, aircraft management companies, corporate flight departments, charter operators, fixed-base operators in both the commercial and business aviation sectors, and has significant experience in the VIP aircraft completion sector. He has represented both U.S. and foreign business aviation clients (high-net-worth individuals and corporate flight departments in connection with large private business aircraft acquisitions, financings, leasing, management, charter leasing and maintenance, repair, modifications, and completions matters.
