David Brookes
Partner
David Brookes is a partner at Punter Southall Law. He is a highly experienced and versatile transactional finance and corporate and commercial lawyer with more than 25 years of experience from both private practice and in-house.
Prior to joining Punter Southall Law, David spent 10 years as a partner with large UK and US City law firms representing leading companies, arrangers and financial institutions on a wide variety of cross-border asset and project finance style transactions including syndicated and bilateral debt, export credit, private equity, capital markets, structured finance and leasing, as well as enforcement, restructurings and workouts, in the maritime, offshore, energy and aviation sectors. He led transactions with a total value of more than US$10 bn.
More recently he represented a start-up company in the renewable energy (offshore wind) sector overseeing all company, investment, fundraising, finance, commercial and maritime law matters and he spent 5 years as the General Counsel of a high net worth family office / private equity and venture capital group in Mayfair, London active with investments, joint ventures and collaborations in the FinTech, media and e-commerce sectors, and as the Group General Counsel for a multi-national tech group in the blockchain sector.
His broad legal experience includes:
- Finance transactions
- Contract
- Corporate
- Commercial
- M&A
- Maritime Shipping and Transportation
- Employment
- Intellectual Property
- Restructuring and Workouts
- Governance and Compliance
- Data Privacy and GDPR.
Born and raised in Norway, David is fluent in all Scandinavian languages.