Bio

David Morris is a capital partner, and Chair of the Firm’s Corporate & Securities Group. David practices in the areas of corporate and securities, corporate finance and investment management. He concentrates his practice on mergers and acquisitions, private equity, venture capital, fund formation, securities, banking and finance, trading and commodities law, emerging growth companies and general corporate matters. He has significant expertise in the investment management, proprietary trading and commodities law areas, through the representation of private investment funds (hedge funds, private equity funds, venture capital funds and real estate funds), broker-dealers, registered investment advisers, commodity pool operators, commodity trading advisors and other investment management and proprietary trading industry participants. David also serves as outside general counsel to start-up and emerging growth companies in a wide variety of industries. David received a B.S. in finance, with highest honors, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He also studied at the London School of Economics, and earned a J.D. from the UCLA School of Law, where he was an associate editor of the UCLA Law Review.