Lord Gold is a lawyer, who was Senior Partner of Herbert Smith from 2005 to 2010. Having graduated from LSE, he qualified at the firm in 1975 and became its Head of the Litigation Division in 2003. After leaving the firm, he set up David Gold & Associates providing strategic and tactical advice especially relating to disputes, senior counsel to a number of corporates and leaders, notably in relation to governance and compliance. He was U.S. Department of Justice monitor of BAE Systems and has assisted a number of international companies secure deferred prosecution agreements.In 2018, he joined forces with Simon Collins to create Gold Collins Associates and he is also an investor and adviser to Balance Legal Capital and chairs their Investment Committee. Lord Gold is a Governor of the LSE and Chairman of ESCP Europe Business School London. He is a Conservative working Peer, having entered the House of Lords in February 2011, and sits on the International Agreements Sub-Committee.