David Turney - Lawyer Profile | Lexoo

David Turney

Avery Law LLP

London

5.0

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About David

David Turney is a highly skilled, entrepreneurial and recommended lawyer. He started his career at a magic circle law firm (Allen & Overy) and then worked in house before founding Avery Law LLP. He frequently provides corporate, commercial and finance English law advice to start ups, investors, corporates and individuals from around the world.

David specialises in fundraisings (both equity and debt), particularly in the growth tech sector. He has a wealth of in depth experience in advising start ups and scale ups on funding rounds (both equity and debt), shareholder agreements and governance, share incentivisation schemes, share subscriptions, sweat equity and the structuring of vesting schedules for founders, advisers and employees, share sales, acquisitions and corporate restructurings. He is regularly involved in fundraising and exit deals at all stages of the cap table.

David has been publicly described as “an extraordinary lawyer who is extremely helpful and professional".

Years of experience

14

About their firm

Avery Law

We are a team of experienced, commercially outcome focused and entrepreneurial lawyers practicing in a modern boutique law firm with an agile approach.

We provide legal advice and transactional support to entrepreneurs and businesses. We fully embrace innovation and tech and the way in which sophisticated and value driven advice is provided.

Avery Law is a redefining boutique city law firm for the changing legal-marketplace providing legal services with a resolute focus on corporate, commercial and banking. The firm fully embraces an agile and virtual model, re-inventing the way in which sophisticated and value-driven advice is provided. The firm encompasses a true entrepreneurial approach offering its clients a departure from the conventional form of legal services resulting in a value driven, less costly and more efficient service.

For further information please view our website at www.averylawllp.com.

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by Kate on 27 Aug, 2020

David was instrumental as helping us close our round of funding and his experience and expertise helped us to negotiate and agree the best terms for both parties across all investment agreements. Super happy with his help and will definitely work with him and his team in the future.

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by Gal on 21 Apr, 2020
  • Verified client Verified Lexoo client

David is providing us with excellent service from A to Z. He is making the effort to fully understand our unique needs and tailor-made for us the solutions we need. He goes above and beyond and I could not recommend him enough.

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by Peter on 9 Jan, 2020
  • Verified client Verified Lexoo client

Overall, very helpful and a nice guy. Pleasure to work with and done some great outputs for us

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by Chris on 6 Jan, 2020

David and his team were fantastic from start to finish. Have since used them for a second request, and was impressed again. I recommend them without reservation.

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by Jack on 3 Dec, 2019

David provided support on drafting and advising a small investment round for my business. He was very personable, and knowledgeable. I would work with him again, and recommend to others.

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by Evgeny on 27 Sep, 2019

It was the third time I worked with Avery Law, and I'll be happy to be using them again going forward. I appreciate David's prompt and clear replies to my questions, clearly worded legal documents, ability work under pressure when the deadline is tight, as well as him looping in specialist lawyers for when the project requires expertise across different areas of law. Together with Bjorn they make a very efficient team!

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by Rishi on 3 Jul, 2019

David is an extraordinary lawyer. He is extremely helpful and professional. He has helped us with designing a complex shareholder agreement. Also his willingness to help our business succeed is exceptional. We are looking forward to working with David on few new assignments. We will definitely recommend David and his team for all corporate law enquiries.

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by Sesh on 2 Apr, 2019

I have to say, having worked with 3 law firms in the past 6 months - David was the most responsive, relevant and detailed. I will continue to use David and they were brilliant value for money.

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by Richard on 18 Feb, 2019

Very good service from David and his colleague Bjorn. Thorough, comprehensive and very competitively priced. Thumbs up!

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by Shao on 22 Oct, 2018

David helped us onboard a new investor. We thought that he was prompt and friendly, and there was good attention to detail throughout.

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by Toby on 4 Oct, 2018

David and Avery Law are quick to respond, efficient, knowledgeable, and great value for money.

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by Daniel on 11 Sep, 2018

We hired David Turney for our Series A funding round. David is the ideal corporate lawyer, knowledgeable but commercial. He understood what we wanted out of the deal and fought for the right points. I particularly liked the fact that David avoided over lawyering things and helped us get it done quickly. His quote was roughly half of what the larger firms quoted us (lower overheads), so we really got big firm quality for small firm rates. Recommended!

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by Grzegorz on 29 Jun, 2018

Quick and effective help. Thank you Bjorn and David.

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by Evren on 28 Jun, 2018

David has been an asset for our company. With his deep experience and high level of professionalism, He has been able to become an extension of our team, suggesting and guiding us in all the stages of the work. He has been always available, providing quick feedbacks and clarifications in case of doubts. I do recommend David to any Company or Startup and I look forward to develop further our business relation. Thanks David!

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by Nick on 28 Jun, 2018
  • Hired David for: Supply contract
  • Verified client Verified Lexoo client

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by Jonathan on 7 Jun, 2018

David was helpful and patient, and dealt with our slightly unusual investment round in a clear and efficient manner, which made life much easier for both our company and the other parties. I highly recommend David and his team at Avery Law.

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by Ali on 30 May, 2018

David Turney was great, very communicative and knowledgeable. Our work was done quickly and efficiently. I highly recommend!

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by Vincenzo on 15 Mar, 2018

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by Miguel on 8 Mar, 2018
  • Hired David for: Confidentiality agreement/non disclosure agreement (nda)
  • Verified client Verified Lexoo client

second time I have used David and very pleased as the first time. I will not hesitate to either use David again or recommend him.

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by Denis on 20 Nov, 2017

Great service from David who knows ins and outs of start up formation. Got a draft of shareholder agreement within days after filling in a comprehensive questionnaire.

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by Laurence on 9 Oct, 2017

David totally understood our situation and was very helpful and supportive from the start all the way through until our funding round was completed. We will definitely use his services again.

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by Ben on 18 Sep, 2017

David was extremely clear from start to finish after listening intently to the brief we provided outlining our requirements. We'll happily discuss future legal requirements with David without doubt.

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by Michael on 18 Sep, 2017

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by Satish on 30 Aug, 2017

David was fantastic & really helpful throughout the process. Collaborative, clear & got everything done. We can't recommend him highly enough.

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by Daniel on 13 Jul, 2017
  • Hired David for: Share purchase agreement
  • Verified client Verified Lexoo client

David was fantastic throughout the process from initial contact with all Shareholders through to negotiation and communication with the lawyers on the buyer side all the way through to completion of the deal. In addition to offering excellent advice, I was very impressed with how quickly David was able to respond throughout the process, helping to keep up the momentum to get the deal completed. I would thoroughly recommend David and Avery Law LLP to anyone who needs legal advice!

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by Sam on 7 Jul, 2017

David is a pleasure to work with. He got everything done fast and offered useful advice throughout the whole process of raising Angel investment. I will be working with him again and advise those looking for a startup expert to drop him a message!

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by Mike on 2 Jun, 2017

Highly recommend David! First time we used Lexoo and very much impressed with their service, and also David (Avery Law).

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by Miles on 31 May, 2017

Excellent. I am a business angel supporting multiple early-stage and scale-up businesses. David is very knowledgeable, responsive and priced remarkably cheaply for the value of the insight he brings. Unreserved recommendation.

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by Charles on 30 May, 2017
  • Hired David for: Share purchase agreement
  • Verified client Verified Lexoo client

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by Damien on 30 May, 2017

Super friendly and rapid turnaround. Will definitely be using again :)

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by Melvin on 18 May, 2017

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by Sam on 28 Apr, 2017

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by Maira on 21 Mar, 2017

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by Maria on 16 Mar, 2017

David Turney is a great professional and I'm happy to have an opportunity to work with him! Job done clear and fast, David took into account all our comments and helped with a huge amount of questions on each step. I will definitely choose David for our next projects! Thank you very much!

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by Neil on 12 Mar, 2017

David has been excellent, very responsive and helpful with reasonable prices - highly recommended.

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by Callum on 1 Mar, 2017

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by Miguel on 1 Mar, 2017

David is my favourite lawyer so far! We got in touch about a job and, within a few minutes, we agreed 2 other jobs! Really approachable and reasonable ... thanks David!

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by Sarah on 3 Feb, 2017

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by Shruti on 27 Jan, 2017

Great to work with and very responsive

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by Karim on 10 Jan, 2017

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by Riaz on 9 Jan, 2017

David gave us his full attention and fast execution on the work we needed without hesitating. I strongly recommend his work and am likely to work with him again in future.

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by Sam on 21 Dec, 2016

David did an excellent job; it was great working with him.

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by Justin on 20 Dec, 2016

David completed an EIS application for us. He was very responsive, knowledgeable and helpful. We'd definitely use him again.

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by Petra on 30 Oct, 2016

David has been extremely helpful, his response time was amazing (we were only just receiving quotes back from other lawyers by the time David already completed legal documents for our start up business). He's also provided us with useful contacts. Thank you!

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by Ola on 29 Oct, 2016

Super fast and responsive!

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by Flavia on 15 Oct, 2016

This rating is considered and the service was really fantastic I have been wrestling with this issue for 3 years - sleepless nights and worry now gone. I now have a legal template I can use to protect my business revenue from introducers. First Class !

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by Nic on 13 Sep, 2016

David has been excellent - actually more than excellent. He has been super responsive and has nudged along myself an others involved in the process (our accountants have been terrible and will be fired as soon as we are done - so he has had to put up with a lot!) Couldn't recommend him highly enough :)

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by Andrew on 16 Aug, 2016

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by Verity on 28 Jun, 2016

Very impressed with David and his team's service!

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by Amir on 23 Jun, 2016

Our job was very urgent and we are pleased that David agreed to work on our case. He responded very quickly and very on-time although it was very late Friday! I would recommend his service/firm to anyone.

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by Nana on 20 Jun, 2016

Excellent from start to finish and went well beyond spec in managing my case and making sure I understood all aspects of what we were doing. Would 100% use him again and recommending to peers.

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by Admir on 17 Jun, 2016

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by Stefan on 27 May, 2016
  • Hired David for: Confidentiality agreement/non disclosure agreement (nda)
  • Verified client Verified Lexoo client

What I can say about our experience with David is that it was very positive. David was very pleasant to do business with. He was quick with replying to emails and offered a free consultation to find out what exactly we needed. He was clear with his explanations and helped us to decide what exactly we required. When we decided for him, he overdelivered, on time, and the costs were exactly as agreed beforehand.

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by Raj on 19 May, 2016
  • Hired David for: Confidentiality agreement/non disclosure agreement (nda)
  • Verified client Verified Lexoo client

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by Luke on 19 Jan, 2016

Really happy with David and look forward to working with him in future.

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by Oliver on 18 Jan, 2016
  • Hired David for: Other Share purchase agreement
  • Verified client Verified Lexoo client

Excellent service, highly recommended

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by Paul on 27 Nov, 2015

Awesome!

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by Ana on 25 Nov, 2015
  • Hired David for: Service agreement
  • Verified client Verified Lexoo client

Lawyer - professional, outcome - according to our expectations.

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by Paolo on 11 Nov, 2015

David did a great job of sorting our Shareholder Agreement, he took on all our requests and came in to talk us through several points. He was very knowledgeable and provided excellent value for money.

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by Stuart on 28 Oct, 2015
  • Hired David for: Service agreement
  • Verified client Verified Lexoo client

David and I spoke immediately after our introduction by Lexoo and I found him to be personable, helpful and a breath of fresh air. He was not stuffy or condescending, was up front about the way Avery Law LLP operates and was clear and fair with the firm's pricing policy. Moreover, the job was turned around quickly, accurately and with value added. I would definitely use Avery Law again and was impressed with every aspect of my dealings with the practice.

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by Dan on 19 Aug, 2015
  • Hired David for: Service agreement
  • Verified client Verified Lexoo client

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by Elizabeth on 20 Jul, 2015

Fantastic find, I have already recommended him to several friends, I believe one has asked for his help. The best thing about him? he REPLIES within hours! and tells you in advance the costs he will incur.