David Jackson
Global Head of Principal M&A Legal, Barclays
David Jackson is Global Head of Principal M&A Legal at Barclays, leading a team of ten lawyers who are responsible for buying and selling companies and businesses across the bank. The team is also responsible for delivering the M&A execution aspects of structural reform, and also leads legal work on corporate joint ventures and principal investments.
Having trained and worked for 10 years at Freshfields, David joined Barclays in 2007 and worked in the Principal M&A Legal team on a range of matters including the sale in 2009 of Barclays Global Investors to BlackRock, the acquisition of the US part of Lehmann in 2008 and acquisitions of banks in Russia and Indonesia. In 2010, David moved to the Investment Bank where he was responsible for legal coverage of private equity, infrastructure funds and principal investments businesses. Having worked on the disposal of the PE and funds businesses following the creation of Barclays Non-Core, David returned to lead the Principal M&A Legal team in 2015.