David was a Partner with DLA Piper in Birmingham until he left in 2004 to establish Averta, a niche practice in the West Midlands specialising in employment law.
Averta has grown steadily over the last 6 years as David has been joined by other well established and experienced employment specialists.
Averta has been praised by the Chambers & Partners directory of solicitors for the "amount of time it dedicates to clients" and for its "efficient and human" service. The Legal 500 UK 2009 directory describes David as "well geared towards dealing with high-level executives".
David advises on all employment law issues particularly those effecting senior staff arising from corporate or management restructuring. These include mergers and acquisitions, TUPE, redundancy, unfair dismissal, discrimination, termination, compromise agreements, bonuses, share options, contractual issues, grievances and discipline and employment documentation.
Numerous high value severance agreements in both public and private sectors