Biography
David principally advises private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies in a wide variety of transactions, including leveraged buyouts, mergers and acquisitions, strategic investments, recapitalization and dispositions. David also has advised clients on general corporate and commercial matters, including securities laws, corporate governance issues and other strategic considerations.
He is recognized as a leading lawyer for Private Equity: Buyouts in Texas by Chambers USA 2024-2026 and as an “Up & Coming” lawyer for Corporate/M&A in Texas by Chambers USA 2021-2023, where clients note he is a “thoughtful and detail-oriented lawyer” who is “incredibly adept on deal management,” and “has a good sense of what our business objectives are and can help us achieve those. He's efficient in his approach and separates the key issues from the noise."
Experience
David has counseled a number of leading private equity firms in acquisitions, dispositions and recapitalizations of companies in the software, consumer and industrial spaces:
- PSG Equity, in more than 100 transactions, including:
- its acquisitions of Benchmark Analytics, Button, Element451, HeroDevs, Packback, Lightkeeper, Tracker RMS, Loopback Analytics, Uscreen.TV, Inktavo, mPulse; Patient Now, Sign In Solutions Inc. and Backlight
- its sale or recapitalization of Versatile Credit, LegitScript, Pineapple Payments, Vault Verify, Chatmeter, Formstack, Pacvue (f/k/a Assembly), Your Cause, SignUp Genius, and ThreatConnect
- its investment in BitWarden, Stylitics and SevenRooms and its sale of SevenRooms to DoorDash
- Kainos Capital, in more than 15 transactions, including:
- its acquisition of Evriholder Products, Super Sod, and Speciality Sales
- its sale of Olde Thompson, good2grow, Kettle Cuisine and Beauty Bio
- Blue Star Innovation Partners, in several transactions, including:
- its acquisition of Byga, TravelNet, Ledger Run and Sonar Software
- its sale of PlayMetrics
Other private equity clients include Citation Capital, Graycliff Capital Partners, Point Field Partners, Providence Equity Partners, Renovo Capital and Sole Source Capital.
David has also led public company clients through transformative transactions, including:
- American Airlines, in its $18 billion merger with US Airway
- General Electric in the sale of its rail car leasing and repair business to Wells Fargo and Marmon Group
- General Growth Properties
- in its $8 billion recapitalization by affiliates of Brookfield and Pershing Square
- in its spinoff of The Howard Hughes Corporation
- in its spinoff of Rouse Properties
In addition to his Chamber’s ranking, David is recognized as a “Highly Regarded” lawyer for M&A in Texas by IFLR1000 2024-2025, was named “Dealmaker: Attorney of the Year” at D CEO Magazine's 2022 Mergers & Acquisitions Awards, and was included among D Magazine’ s Best Lawyers in Dallas for Private Equity 2019, 2021-2023. He was also named to Lawdragon’s 2025-2026 “500 Leading Entertainment, Sports & Media Lawyers” listings.
Prior to joining Weil, David was the Colet Fellow at St. Paul’s School in London, England. David is active in national politics and served on President Barack Obama’s National Finance Committee during the 2008 and 2012 election cycles, as well as chaired Colin Allred’s 2018 and 2020 congressional campaigns and served on the Board of Directors of Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas. David serves on the Board of Directors of The Baltimore Charitable Fund.