David Lurie
Partner

David specialises in corporate fundraising, corporate restructuring, estate and succession planning, asset protection, insolvency and corporate work-out and restructuring strategies.

David has worked closely with and within the financial industry and public company sector for more than 30 years.  Between 1980 and 1990, David worked as a merchant banker, principally in the areas of funding working capital, debt/equity, IPOs, takeovers, backdoor listings and venture capital transactions.

David advises on corporate governance, including shareholder and unitholder rights and the duties of directors and other company officers.  He represents shareholders and unitholders, and attends and advises at shareholders’ and directors’ meetings of major corporations.

David has extensive experience in structuring joint ventures, financial instruments, franchise systems, mergers and acquisitions, and sophisticated shareholder and unitholder agreements.

As a result of David's large insolvency practice, he has been appointed a member of The Insolvency Practitioner Association of Australia, which provides a range of services the firm is able to access on behalf of its clients.

David also consults to accountants and family lawyers in undertaking forensic analysis to identify and trace assets.

David has an avid interest in world affairs and was the Australian ambassador to the Waldzel Conference on "Blueprints of a Future with Meaning" in Austria, 2009.  He was so inspired by the topics at this conference that he created, and B2B and our strategic partner Cullen Capital jointly convened with Tel Aviv University and the Steinmetz Peace Centre, an international conference in Israel on Ethnicity and Nationalism in Divided Societies – Conflict and Accommodation.

David is actively involved as a director of the NGO Global Reconciliation which is a network of people and organisations around the world which seeks to promote communication and dialogue across national, cultural, religious and racial differences.   David is co Chair of the Sport and Recreation theme of Global Reconciliation.

David holds a Bachelor of Commerce and a Bachelor of Laws (Honours).

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