David Harrison

While I have developed deep expertise across a range of sectors including, notably, in the Energy & Industrials; Consumer; and Real Estate spaces, a significant part of my practice is focused on the Technology sector and I find that the driving forces of technological change and disruption are common threads which run through the majority of the situations which I advise on.

Although I quickly learnt as a trainee solicitor that the job didn’t involve anything like the level of glamour that I had lead myself to expect, from the moment I helped to close my first corporate transaction (a reverse takeover), I was hooked on the buzz of the deal and the amazing sense of satisfaction that comes from working with a team of like-minded people to achieve a common goal.

While that same buzz and sense of satisfaction has kept me enthused and coming back for more ever since, I am lucky enough to have worked on a broad array of transactions across multiple sectors and jurisdictions over the years and I have found that this variety of experience has been invaluable in developing the balance between due care and a pragmatic and solution oriented approach to getting the job done which my clients value.

I’m a great believer in the importance of education for all, so outside of work, I sit on the board of governors for a federation of four schools in my local area.

• Advising a family office on the acquisition of a significant minority interest in a major international casual dining brand
• Advising an Energy Tech company on the acquisition of a distributed energy resource platform
• Advising a family office on the divestment of a major retail banking operation in the former CIS region
• Advising the founders on the divestment of an Africa focussed oilfield services business
• Advising a multinational company of the acquisition of a heavy industrial parts supply business