David Alizade

David is a business lawyer with extensive experience in private practice and in-house. He heads the TMT and IP team at Jackson Russell, specialising in the areas of technology, media, telecommunications and intellectual property protection and commercialisation, and advises clients on data protection issues. David has much international experience and before returning to New Zealand and joining Jackson Russell he was a partner in a UK law firm.

David’s clients range from multi-national companies to high-growth businesses. His clients like his clear, business focused approach and deep industry expertise.

David is admitted as a solicitor in New Zealand. He enjoys playing football and cricket with his 4 boys and watching Arsenal FC. He speaks fluent French.

His team’s work includes:

• equity and debt funding
• software development, licensing, maintenance and support agreements
• joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions and due diligence
• employment agreements, and share option and ownership plans
• litigation and dispute resolution
• trade mark and other intellectual property protection
• intellectual property group restructurings
• acquiring, selling and licensing intellectual property rights
• enforcing intellectual property rights