David has professional legal qualification as a Barrister/Solicitor and recently has been a Consultant Compliance Legal Adviser with Norton Rose Fulbright and with Kirkland and Ellis and has consulted part-time with a Compliance Regulatory team at BNP Paribas in London and with specialist compliance advisers in the City.

David has extensive career experience in legal, regulatory and compliance areas involving business, product development and marketing areas within banks, asset & wealth management groups and insurance and broking firms.  Having originally qualified as a Barrister in the 1980s, he has been a Solicitor/Barrister regulatory adviser for the past 15 years, both in private practice and in-house with a range of financial groups.

Roles as a consultant and compliance advisers have included:  JP Morgan Private Bank, PIMCO, AIG, Pavilion Asset Management, Threadneedle Investment Management, Darwin Strategic Investment and Oracle Capital Wealth Management.

Previous practical experience has included CF10 (Compliance Officer) and CF11 (Money Laundering Reporting Officer) for financial services firms as well as advising and training approved persons and those with significant control (board members and senior managers) in a range of firms and across the field of regulation.