Business Consultancy
Consultancy
My 30 years’ experience as a corporate transactional lawyer and non-executive director / managing partner, spans a range of industries and business areas which inform my advice and consultancy services.
These are complemented by creative thinking, and pragmatic problem-solving.
I’m available for a limited number of discrete projects each year. Please contact me to discuss an opportunity.
David has vast knowledge and experience managing and advising organisations around the world, from some of the largest multinationals to small start-ups.
What sets him apart from others is his ability to have deep knowledge in some areas, particularly legal matters, together with breadth across all areas of businesses, such as leadership, financial, team culture, business development and operations.
His insights and perspective enabled my company to navigate through difficult challenges during COVID-19.
What I like about working with David is that he worked with us to develop smart solutions that met our needs and which we could action to achieve the result.
I highly recommend David to organisations of all types, particularly for his work as an advisor and director.
~ Michael Horman
Legal and Business Advisor
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Commercial Agreements
Corporate Governance
Strategy Formulation and Implementation
Management Structure
“I worked with David Fleming for a number of years in various capacities, including as COO when he was the Managing Partner of Baker McKenzie in HK/China/Vietnam.
In that role, David demonstrated clear leadership qualities, during times of strong market performance, but also during times of crisis. His ability to flex his style and adapt to different circumstances allows for solutions to be delivered and teams coalesced in a highly efficient manner.
David has an innate ability to distil complex issues with a view to finding pragmatic solutions; to influence groups in a way that delivers results and creates cohesion within teams and stakeholder groups; and to methodically deliver against plans and achieve objectives. He brings people together.
David has an innate ability to distil complex issues with a view to finding pragmatic solutions; to influence groups in a way that delivers results and creates cohesion within teams and stakeholder groups; to methodically deliver against plans and achieve objectives; and, to bring people together.
David is a strong leader of people — he understands what drives success, and how to help people contribute at their highest level towards common goals. He uses influence and empowerment rather than direction and control to create a high performing culture. He is a coach and mentor to those people he works with, allowing teams to feel supported but challenged.
~ Kate Stonestreet
Global COO, Baker McKenzie
Past Consultancy Projects
Strategic and Operational Review
Advising an international law firm on the strategic and operational review of one of its key practice areas.
This involved working in a small group of senior executives:
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Reviewing strategy and business plans
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Conducting, individual and group interviews
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Identifying the strengths and weaknesses of the practice as well as its external and internal challenges
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Formulating and delivering recommendation for improvement
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Providing advice and support on implementing and agreed action plan.
Sale of Discrete Business Unit
Advising an international law firm on the proposed disposal of a discrete unit of its business in Hong Kong and China which resulted in the receipt of an indicative offer from an international private equity firm.
Salaried Partner Review
Consulting an international law firm and participating in its intensive 3-day residential program for the evaluation, review and skills training of its salaried partners.
How it works
After telling me a bit more about yourself, your business and project, we usually commence with a discovery call or meeting to be sure we’d like to work together.
From here, we work out a schedule that meets your needs and circumstances (whether on a regular basis or more focused around a particular work project, deadline or “crisis”). This usually involves identifying precisely what business challenge or commercial solution you want to work on.
David has played an integral role in enhancing our abilities as business owners and leaders.
Through his mentorship and coaching, we have become far more confident in our roles, substantially strengthened our decision-making process, significantly improved in terms of being more organised and critically, increased our capacity to communicate more effectively.
David has played, and continues to play, a major role in our personal development and has drastically improved the efficiency of our business. It is no coincidence that during the time David has been helping us, URef has enjoyed its most prosperous period.
Over the last two years, we have become more considered, calm, pragmatic, and generally far more competent running a startup business with 10 staff and a large part of that progression has been the composure David has instilled in us.
David’s wealth of experience with critical decision-making, maximising operational efficiency, managing teams and navigating unique challenges have been invaluable.
~ Jack Atkinson
Co-Founder and CEO, URef Pty Ltd
~ Nathan Derriman
Co-Founder and Director, URef Pty Ltd