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David serves as general outside counsel to a broad range of corporate organizations, handling their mergers and acquisitions, securities, public, private, venture and other equity and debt financing and investment transactions, proxy fights, executive compensation, contracting, governance, and other general corporate issues. His clients—which include NSTAR, Atlas Air Worldwide, Inc., EMCOR Group, Inc., Michaels Stores, Inc., Plymouth Rock Assurance, and TransAct Technologies—represent key sectors of the global economy: technology, energy, airline/transportation, financial services, retail, industrial services, and higher education.
A Ropes & Gray partner since 1990, David served as the co-head of the firm’s Federal Securities and Public Company practice from January 2002 through May 2006, as chair of the firm’s Diversity Committee from 2005 to 2010 and now serves as co-chair of the firm’s cleantech/energy practice.
- Represented NSTAR in its recent merger with Northeast Utilities, which created one of the nation’s largest utilities, with an enterprise value totaling $17.5 billion. He also represented NSTAR in its disposition of the Medical Area Total Energy Plant to Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners and Veolia.
- Represented Direct Response Corp and Plymouth Rock Corporation in the sale of Direct Response to Trinity Universal Insurance Company, and represented Palisades Safety and Insurance Association in its acquisition of National Atlantic Holdings.
- Represented Emcor Group in its acquisitions of Ohmstede Ltd and USM Services.
- Represented Weston Jesuit School of Theology in its affiliation with Boston College through the Ecclesiastical Faculty at Boston College.
- Represented Atlas Air Worldwide in its $100 million registered common stock offering, and its $100 million registered underwritten secondary common stock offering, and regularly represents Atlas in connection with governance, securities, compensation and general corporate matters.
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Education
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JD, Duke University School of Law, 1981; Order of the Coif
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BA, magna cum laude, Brandeis University, 1978
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