After periods in trade union and private practice, David
Gollancz joined the Treasury Solicitor’s Department in 1999,
where he became the Head of the Procurement and Commercial
Contracts Team and founded and led the TUPE Task Force. He
joined FFW in 2005. David’s principal areas of expertise
are:
- EU procurement law, state aid and competition
- commercial aspects of public/private contracts
- public/private sector staff transfers
- public sector corporate transformations
At Treasury Solicitors David acted as the Government’s lead
lawyer in a wide range of PFI, PPP and conventional
deals. Currently he is FFW’s lead lawyer advising the
Department for Communities and Local Government on the formation of
the Commission for Equality and Human Rights and the Department for
Trade and Industry on its joint initiative with the British
Standards Institute to promote and market standards to
industry. He advises a number of major private and voluntary
sector bodies about public sector contracts, including the Royal
Institution of Chartered Surveyors and private sector healthcare
providers.
David is much in demand as a commentator in the professional
press and as a speaker on procurement and TUPE; he is the “legal
member” of the advice panel of “Supply Management”, the house
journal of the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply.
David also chairs FFW’s Corporate Social
Responsibility Group, which co-ordinates the work of the firm’s
four Action Groups:
Pro bono/Community Involvement; Environment;
Charities;
and the FFW
Community.