David received his BA (Honours) from the University of Regina in 1979 and graduated from the College of Law, University of Saskatchewan in 1983. He was called to the Saskatchewan Bar in 1984 and has had a varied legal career initially specializing in civil litigation and debtor creditor law, during which time he had the opportunity to appear before all levels of courts in Saskatchewan as well as numerous boards and tribunals. For the last ten years the focus of David's practice has been corporate and commercial law with a special emphasis on corporate finance, securities law and real estate.  David has provided advice to clients  on mergers, acquisitions, business sales, as well he has filed IPO's and Offering Memorandums with the Saskatchewan Financial Services Commission. He has worked extensively with angel investors both as counsel and as one of the founders and past Chair of the Board of Directors of the Saskatchewan Angel Investment Network (SAINt).
 David has practical business experience having sat on the Board of Directors of and acted as either counsel or an advisor to several private and public corporations. He has been an active member of the community for the past 25 years and has sat on the University of Saskatchewan Senate, the Board of Directors of the University of Regina Alumni Association, 1998 Scott Tournament of Hearts, The Regina Center Progress Club, the Lakeview Community Association, and has also served as a committee chair for the 1995 Grey Cup, the 2002 Roar to the Rings Olympic qualifying event, and the United Way of Regina. David has also been politically active with the Liberal Party having served as President of the Federal riding of Palliser from 2001-2005, as a candidate for the party in the 2003 Provincial election and most recently as the Saskatchewan co-chair of the 2008 Michael Ignatieff leadership campaign and Finance chair for the Liberal Party of Canada in Saskatchewan.
David has lectured on behalf of the Saskatchewan Trial Lawyers Association, the Public Legal Education Association of Saskatchewan, and has been a guest lecturer to the Executive MBA program at the University of Regina, and for Springboard West Innovations and has written articles for the Entrepreneurial Foundation of Saskatchewan Inc. David is a member of the Law Society of Saskatchewan and the Canadian Bar Association and is currently chair of its South Saskatchewan Securities section.  In 2009 David received a Queen's Counsel designation.  David has also received a CV* peer review rating legal ability and ethical standards. He is also a member of Stanford's Who's Who Registry of Executives, Professionals, and Entrepreneurs for 2009-2010 and has been granted a Lifetime member Honours by the Global Directory of Who's Who (www.gdo.ww.com) for demonstrating leadership and achievement in his profession.
*The rating is compiled based on a peer based review system which is independently operated by the Prestigious American based Lexis-Nexis/Martindale Hubbell Association.

• Business Law
• Civil Litigation
• Corporate Finance & Securities
• Debtor / Creditor
• Real Estate Law