David helps clients solve their most complex international arbitrations. He has particular expertise in construction disputes, drawing on his business and executive experience in the construction industry before entering the field of law. Clients benefit from his organizational efficiency and team management experience on large-scale projects around the world.

David represents major institutional clients in complex multi-party litigation and international commercial arbitration with respect to significant commercial disputes. He has appeared as litigation counsel before all levels of courts in Alberta, and has acted as arbitration counsel under the world’s leading international arbitration rule systems, including ICC, LCIA, ADRIC, and UNCITRAL, as well as in numerous ad hoc arbitrations.

Over the last decade, David has been counsel in many multi-million-dollar international commercial arbitrations under the world’s leading international arbitration rule systems, including ICC, LCIA and UNCITRAL, as well as in numerous ad hoc arbitrations. David has also been counsel in several domestic arbitrations, and has appeared before all levels of courts in Alberta on arbitration related mandates. David teaches International Commercial Arbitration at the University of Calgary Law School.

• Member of the Law Society of Alberta – since 2014
• Member of the Law Society of British Columbia – since 2021
• Member of the Young Canadian Arbitration Practitioners (YCAP) – since 2014
• Member of the Calgary Bar Association – since 2014

• University of Ottawa, JD, 2013, cum laude
• University of Calgary, BA (Political Science), 2010, first class honours