David Bartlett is a corporate lawyer based in London. He focuses on providing corporate and regulatory advice to global insurance clients.

David has been ranked as a Thomson Reuters “Stand-Out Lawyer” and is named as Key Lawyer for corporate and regulatory insurance matters in Legal 500. David's experience includes international and domestic M&A transactions, joint ventures, corporate restructurings and several insurance portfolio transfers, as well as complex life and non-life reinsurance and insurance-linked securities transactions involving traditional and alternative asset classes.

David also advises on general corporate and regulatory matters for insurance sector clients.

“David Bartlett has deep knowledge of the [insurance] industry and a very strong grasp of black letter law… an exceptionally impressive young lawyer.” (Legal 500 UK, 2025).

As part of his training, David spent time on secondment to Howden Group where he advised on corporate, commercial and regulatory matters.