David Morley
David Morley is a co-founder of Dejonghe & Morley LLP, a strategic advisory consultancy for law firms and investors that he launched in 2025 with fellow former Allen & Overy senior partner Wim Dejonghe. He previously served as Global Senior Partner of Allen & Overy from 2003 to 2016, during which time the firm doubled its revenues and expanded its global footprint, and later as Managing Director and Head of Europe at CDPQ, a major Canadian institutional investor. He is best known for his over four decades of leadership at the intersection of the legal and investment sectors, and currently advises on the growing wave of private capital investment in legal services.
“Law is probably the last significant professional services sector that hasn't taken material amounts of private capital investment. — David Morley, co-founder, Dejonghe & Morley”
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