David is Sydney-based, and many of the clients he is currently assisting have been impacted by Covid-19 and the various issues and risks the pandemic has created. David was based in EY’s London Financial Restructuring team between 2018 and 2020 during “Brexit” and was involved in supporting borrowers and their financial stakeholders through some of the largest restructurings in the region, many of which were triggered by the economic impact of the UK’s exit from Europe. Prior to that David was Sydney-based with his broad experience including acting as financial advisor on numerous large transactions for corporate and PE clients and a year’s secondment at bank, working through a distressed leveraged loan portfolio.
Key Sectors
- Financial services
- Government
- Infrastructure
Value proposition
- Highly experienced in building consensus among stakeholders with divergent and often competing views and interests
- Broad experience executing and advising on complex transactions in distressed and non-distressed situations
- Provides pragmatic and commercial advice
Selected projects
- Advisor to a Government department on the highly sensitive divestment and closure of a business unit
- Birmingham Highways £3b Project Finance Initiative - Financial advisor to a syndicate of 11 lenders & hedge counterparties in the successful restructuring of Europe’s largest roads PPP
- Intu Properties – financial advisor to a syndicate of banks and funds lending to one of the UK’s largest property groups with £5b in debts, which ultimately involved contingency planning and enforcement
David is a Registered Liquidator; a member of the ICAA, TMA (member of the NSW Committee) and ARITA; and holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Sydney.
