David Murphy
Partner, Fox Williams LLP
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David Murphy is a partner at Fox Williams LLP who specialises in guiding HR directors, boards and in-house legal teams through difficult employment situations, and in advising senior individuals when they join and leave their employers or face problems during their employment.
His corporate client base is focused on the financial services and professional services sectors, and he is experienced in advising on sensitive investigations in both sectors, particularly in respect of allegations relating to breaches of duty and conduct rules, and discrimination and harassment. His individual clients include fund managers, investment bankers, directors of listed companies and lawyers. He has advised several individuals at executive committee level on their departures from a major bank. In the 2021 edition of The Legal 500, David is recognised as a ‘excellent, technically knowledgeable, approachable, commercially astute and pragmatic’. In the 2022 edition of Chambers and Partners, he is described as providing ‘strong technical guidance on issues and balances that with the commercial impacts to enable a pragmatic resolution’.
