V-CARDDave is a Shareholder and corporate lawyer with the firm. He has practiced banking, corporate, and securities law both in Tampa and in New York City. While with Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in New York, his practice focused on acquisitions and public and private securities offerings, including representation of a major leveraged buy-out firm and several major underwriting firms. Since returning to Tampa in 1990, Dave's practice has involved securities offerings, venture capital investments, mergers and acquisitions, and general representation of established and emerging growth companies.
Dave represents a number of institutional venture capital and private equity investors, including Lovett Miller & Co., Incorporated, Ballast Point Venture Partners, Stonehenge Capital, Inflexion Fund, L.P., and HealthEdge Investment Partners, and offers counsel to a number of “angel” investors. He also represents public companies in securities and governance matters, including Exchange Act reports, SRO requirements, audit and compensation committee practices, annual meetings, and general advice to Boards of Directors.
Dave is past Chair of the Florida Bar's Business Law Section and its Corporations and Securities Law Committee. He chaired committees of the Florida Bar responsible for drafting laws governing Florida corporations and guidelines for legal opinions. He is a member of the American Bar Association Business Law Section's Committee on Federal Regulation of Securities, Corporate Governance, and Venture Capital Committees. He also serves as a faculty member of the annual Federal Securities Institute, a two-day program in Miami, and has spoken at seminars throughout the United States regarding corporate governance, securities offerings and compliance, private equity capital raising transactions, and mergers and acquisitions.
Dave is a member of the Board of Directors of the Florida Venture Forum and a founder of the annual Florida Directors’ Institute, an annual program on corporate governance for public company directors at the University of Tampa School of Business.Securities
Venture Capital
Private Equity
Duke University School of Law, with distinction, 1982 (J.D.)
- Order of the Coif
- Corporate law
- Venture capital law
- Leveraged buyouts and private equity law
- Banking law
Chambers USA: American's Leading Lawyers for Business (since 2003)
- Corporate and Mergers and Acquisitions
- Private Equity (#1 ranking)
Florida Trend’s “Legal Elite” (since 2004)
- 2007 Federal Securities Institute, Miami, FL
(“Responsibilities of Management in a Going
Private Transaction”) - 2007 Private Equity Forum, Atlanta, GA (“What
Investors Want”) - 2007 National Investors Relations Institute
(“Securities Law Update”) - 2007 Florida Venture Forum, Ponte Vedra, FL
(“Negotiating Venture Capital Term Sheets”) - 2006 Southeastern Merger and Acquisitions Forum, Atlanta,
GA (“Fairness Opinions and the
Investment Banker Relationship”) - 2006 Federal Securities Institute, Miami, FL (“2006
Developments in Venture Capital”) - 2006 ABA Business Law Section, Venture Capital Committee
(“2006 Developments in
Venture Capital”) - 2006 Annual SEC Issues Update, Atlanta, GA
(“Current Board Issues: Compensation Committees,
Executive Sessions, and Board Evaluations”)