David is a partner in Allen & Overy LLP’s international capital markets practice, where he splits his time between the firm’s New York and São Paulo offices. He specializes in international securities offerings, financial transactions and corporate governance. David has extensive experience representing underwriters and issuers across a wide range of sectors in public and private offerings of debt securities, liability management transactions, and SEC-registered and exempt equity IPOs, follow-ons and rights offerings. In particular, he has advised numerous leading Latin American and European companies on SEC reporting obligations and U.S. stock exchange rules, and he has acted for lenders, arrangers and borrowers in corporate financings, restructurings and M&A transactions. He is fluent in Portuguese and Spanish, and he is proficient in French.