Originally an engineering graduate from Birmingham University in the UK, David went on to study in France where he obtained a doctorate in Physics in 1992. His scientific work made him finely attuned to the potential of the Internet that was shortly to be unleashed on the business world. As such he built a Domain Name and Internet Governance practice from scratch within the firm, naming it Anchovy. David advises a multitude of international clients seeking to optimize their global domain name strategy dealing with cybersquatters and cybersecurity issues, interlacing portfolio management with worldwide enforcement and Internet Governance yet always looking for the pragmatic solution.

He was significantly involved in the ICANN new gTLD process over the last 8 years. David was a member of the Implementation Recommendation Team (IRT) set up by ICANN in March 2009 to propose and develop solutions to the issue of trademark protection in connection with the introduction of new gTLDs. David and his team in Paris filed have been involved in every step of the new gTLD process since 2008 from the initial advice to preparing and filing applications, through to filing and responding to Legal Rights Objections, Community Objections and String Confusion Objections concerning numerous new gTLD applications.

He was also a member of the ICANN GNSO Council and a special advisor to the INTA (International Trademarks Association) Internet Committee between 2009 and 2012 and was recently selected and currently sits alongside 16 other team members from around the world serving on the Competition, Consumer Trust and Consumer Choice (CCT) Review Team tasked with the examination of the extent to which the introduction or expansion of gTLDs has promoted competition, consumer trust and consumer choice. David is also a domain name panellist for World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a panellist for UK domain name disputes with Nominet, and an arbitrator for EU and the UDRP with the Czech Arbitration Court enabling him to consider issues from an adjudicator's perspective across a number of jurisdictions.