David serves as a Managing Director and Head of M&A, US. He has experience advising public and private companies in domestic and cross-border transactions involving corporate sales, divestitures, acquisitions, joint ventures, takeover defense, shareholder activism, leveraged buyouts/recapitalizations, stock buybacks and spinoffs. David has approximately 25 years of M&A experience and joined Canaccord Genuity in 2014 from Cowen and Company, where he served as Managing Director and Head of Technology M&A. Before that, he was a senior member of the M&A teams at UBS Investment Bank and PaineWebber Incorporated and a Founder and Managing Member of the technology-focused venture capital fund Bluefish Ventures. David graduated cum laude from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a B.S. in Economics and concentration in Finance.
Selected Transactions
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TransMedics
Financial Advisor (Buy side)
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Calyxt
Financial Advisor (Merger)
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Winc
Investment Banker (Chapter 11 Restructuring)
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US$1.2b
Environmental Impact Acquisition Corp.
Financial Advisor on Merger with GreenLight Biosciences
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N/a
EPAM Systems, Inc.
Financial Advisor to EPAM Systems, Inc. on its Acquisition of Emakina Group
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Newtown Lane Marketing
N/aNewtown Lane Marketing
Financial Advisor
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US$90m
LSI Industries
Financial Advisor to LSI Industries on its acquisition of JSI Store Fixtures Inc.
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BCTG Acquisition Corp.
N/aBCTG Acquisition Corp.
Financial Advisor to BCTG Acquisition Corp. on its merger with Tango Therapeutics
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US$323m
Leaf Group Ltd.
Financial Advisor to Leaf Group Ltd. on its sale to Graham Holdings Company