• Counsel to a major private equity investor in a joint venture acquisition of a $4.2 billion portfolio of unsecured and secured consumer loans financed with equity and a contemporaneous asset-backed securitization.
• Representing Insikt, Inc., a startup FinTech company, in the purchase of loans and one of the first securitization transactions of peer-to-peer loans originated by Prosper Funding.
• Counsel to Bond Street Holdings, the first successful "shelf charter" national bank, with respect to its application, chartering, two capital raises totaling approximately $750 million and the acquisition of eight failed banks from the FDIC.
• Counsel to the FDIC in complex joint venture sales of assets from failed banks.
• Represented a major money center bank in a series of asset sales of performing and non-performing "bad bank" consumer assets structured as Rule 144A transactions.
• Counsel to a subprime consumer lender in the restructuring of numerous warehouse loan facilities.

Prior to joining Willkie, David was a partner at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP. He also previously practiced at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy (1990 to 1995) and Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson (1984 to 1990), and served as a staff attorney in the Corporate and Securities Division of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board's Office of the General Counsel (1983 to 1984).

David has authored and co-authored numerous publications and frequently speaks on bank regulatory and legislative developments, including on various aspects of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.  He has been a member of the Regulatory Committee of the American Securitization Forum since its inception.  He also served as Editor of the Annual Review of Banking Law and was a National Science Foundation Fellow.