David Barnes

David is an Executive Vice President and the leader of the Representations & Warranties Insurance Practice at CAC Specialty.

David prides himself on getting deals done and building long-term partnerships with clients.  David particularly enjoys using insurance as a tool to solve deal-killer issues in M&A deals and to bridge the gap between buyers and sellers.  With the CAC team David has helped place billions in insurance limits across a range of transactional risk products—from Representation & Warranties policies on multi-billion-dollar transactions to complex litigation risk placements, stop-loss placements, successor liability placements, and many more.

Prior to joining CAC, David was a Vice President at McGriff, Seibels & Williams where he co-led the firm’s Transactional Insurance Practice. Before his career in insurance, he practiced law, first as a law clerk on the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, and then at King & Spalding LLP, and then with Miller & Martin PLLC, where he focused on complex insurance coverage matters, post-acquisition disputes, and civil appeals. David has litigated cases in state and federal courts across the county, including the US Supreme Court.

David earned his Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude from Sewanee, The University of the South, and graduated as valedictorian from Vanderbilt University School of Law.