David is a highly-experienced transactional attorney with a special focus in Entertainment Law. He spent 17 years at The Walt Disney Company, where he served as Assistant General Counsel. David graduated from New York University in 1993, where he studied Film and Television. He received his Juris Doctorate from the University of Miami School of Law in 1996, where he attended as a Dean’s Honor Scholar and was selected to deliver the Commencement Address. At Disney, David led a 20-person legal team in negotiating all of Disney’s agreements for the licensing of movies, TV shows and other entertainment content. He pioneered Disney’s film and television license agreements with companies like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft and Google and numerous others. These deals included movies and TV series from beloved brands and franchises like Disney, Marvel, Star Wars, Pixar, ABC, Disney Channel, Freeform, FX and Fox. Some of his favorite deals included negotiating the industry’s first motion picture VOD agreement with Apple’s iTunes, the first full major studio output agreement with Netflix, the Marvel series agreement with Netflix for Daredevil, Jessica Jones, et al, the agreement for The Simpsons to run on Disney+, and all of the major studio and platform agreements for Disney’s Movies Anywhere service. David also spent 3 years at MGM, where he served as the Senior Vice President of their EPIX network and streaming service, heading up Film Acquisitions, Distribution, and Strategy & Business Development for the service. In addition to working for those two legendary film studios, David began his career in the independent film world at Gold Circle Films, where he worked on both the production and distribution sides of business and legal affairs for indie films in all stages of development, production and distribution, including one of the biggest indie film hits of all time, My Big Fat Greek Wedding. In addition to his legal career, David also is a producer and writer. He is currently one of the lead producers of the new live stage musical Rutka. He is also co-producing the upcoming feature films Post-Romantic Stress and Bennett. His published graphic novels include Meltdown (Image Comics) and Idolized (Aspen Comics), among others. He is also the Co-Founder and President Emeritus of the New World School of the Arts Alumni Foundation. David affiliated with Montage Legal Group’s freelance attorney platform in 2025. He is admitted to practice law in California, New York and the District of Columbia.