Welcome to David Magill Solicitor’s website.
Who is David, and what he can offer ?
David is an experienced Solicitor Advocate and Partner at Simon Burn Solicitors with a successful litigation and corporate/commercial legal practice.
Background
David graduated with a Business degree, and worked for blue chip companies including British Airways and 6 years with UBS starting in their Graduate Programme. After 6+ years in the City of London, David re-trained as a Solicitor with national firm, Eversheds, before moving to Sidley Austin, a US law firm in the City specialising in all aspects of finance, combining his significant corporate and commercial experience with legal expertise for his clients.
Later, with a growing young family, David left London moving to specialist boutique law firm, Simon Burn Solicitors, to expand his practice into disputes/litigation.
Experience and Services
For 20 years (with 16+ years at Simon Burn Solicitors), as a Solicitor Advocate and Partner, David has advised individuals and families, as well as large and small businesses, both in the UK and overseas, in relation to the following areas of law:
– Media/Publication Litigation – Advising on Misuse of Private Information, Defamation, Malicious Falsehood, and Harassment, and reputation management. David is noted in the Legal 500 legal directory for his expertise in this area, and has been referred to as a “heavy hitting” lawyer.
– Insolvency related litigation including defending claims brought by Liquidators, Trustees in Bankruptcy and HMRC.
– Corporate and Partnership Disputes-Advising on partnership, shareholder and director disputes, warranty breaches, unfair prejudice action by shareholders, breaches of shareholders agreements and articles as well as disputes arising from share sales and purchases as well as deadlocks.
– Banking/Finance disputes relating to new and existing borrowing/lending and granting or action/defending enforcement of security including personal guarantees, third party security/ surety.
– General Commercial and Intellectual Property (Trade Marks and Passing Off) litigation and advising clients on terms and conditions, commercial contracts and other agreements including cross border disputes.
For further detail on David’s experience, please click the Services link at the top of this page.
Should you wish to contact David, please either contact him on the email/phone details below, or use his contact form on the Contact page.
Email: David.Magill@simonburn.com
Call: 01242 228444
Client Feedback
“Many Thanks David, What can I say!
It’s been a long and stressful road. I can’t thank you enough for what you have done and with your help and guidance my family will now have a Happy Christmas and a much better New Year. Appreciate all the effort and work you have put into this and getting the best outcome possible.”
“I would like to thank you most sincerely for your assistance with my recent libel case and to let you know how relieved I am that we are able to promptly reach a settlement. From the outset you grasped my concerns including the background issues. Your clearly understood that an apology and retraction were more important in restoring my reputation than financial compensation. Once again, thank you for your assistance throughout, the considerate and expert manner in which this case was handled is greatly appreciated.”
“I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the recent work that you carried out on our behalf. You were informative about the action that could be taken and made us feel at ease about the situation. I was so very relived when the outcome was successful and was very impressed with your professionalism and efficiency. Please feel free to use this information as a review for you to use where you feel appropriate. The stress that you have relieved me from is something that I truly thank you for.”
“Words cannot adequately express my, and my family’s, gratitude for the highly professional way in which you conducted my case.
You believed in my case and identified the dishonesty in the accusations made against me. You then demonstrated that belief in the way you supported me even in the darkest days.
Your support was as important in the outcome as your undoubted expertise and your ability to see through the other side’s defence and pursue the issues that brought about a successful outcome.”
” I believe that the leading defamation barrister you instructed to assist us was influenced by your incisiveness, this persuaded him to support our case and certainly having such a great team ensured a successful outcome for me.”
“Not only have you achieved the result I so desperately needed you have also highlighted the points that have cleared my name in other people’s minds as well as your success in court.
I cannot express my gratitude in any way that matches your commitment and diligence.
I can only, very sincerely, say thank you.”
Please note that David is a Consultant Solicitor Advocate and Partner at Simon Burn Solicitors, a firm regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority under SRA No. 516917. All services provided by David are provided to clients with and on behalf of Simon Burn Solicitors.