Legal experience
David has extensive legal experience at a senior level in the defence environment, both in providing advisory services to the Department of Defence and other government agencies.
Before this, David was a senior in-house legal counsel within the defence industry. David has:
- Provided legal support to all business-winning activities, including tendering and associated pre-tendering activities, and contract drafting and negotiations
- Advised on complex contract management issues including dispute resolution
- Provided legal leadership, in conjunction with external counsel, on strategic corporate activities such as mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and corporate restructuring, and managed corporate structures post-acquisition
- Ensured compliance with external and internal corporate regulatory requirements, including business ethics and export controls.
Experience
David is an Expert Consultant at Proximity and has extensive legal, commercial, procurement and corporate experience in the defence industry.
David provided advice to the Capability Acquisition and Sustainment Group (CASG) of the Department of Defence while on secondment.
This advice covered major capital acquisition and through-life sustainment projects.
David has also provided advisory services to a number of other government agencies on contracting and procurement issues.
Before joining Proximity, David worked extensively as a senior legal counsel with a major defence industry contractor.
In this position he managed the legal aspects of all elements of the business.
These included commercial and procurement, corporate transactions, litigation and dispute resolution, governance compliance and management of in-house legal teams.
David enjoys achieving effective and practical legal and business outcomes. He has a proven ability to work both as an integral member of a team and also achieve business objectives independently.
David has a Bachelor of Law and Bachelor of Arts from the University of Melbourne.
David is based in Adelaide and is an accredited rowing umpire with Rowing South Australia.
