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David Cuschieri, a 37-year-old lawyer living in Calgary, Canada, was recently chosen as one of the top lawyers under the age of 40 from across Canada.
The 2017 awards were presented at a reception held at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel, Toronto.
The prestigious event, called the Rising Stars Award, is hosted by Lexpert, the leading source of news and information about the legal profession in Canada.
David was born in Calgary in 1980, the youngest of three children, son of the late Vincent Cuschieri (known as iċ-Ċens among his many friends in Sliema and St Aloysius College) and Angela, née Orr. His two elder sisters, Suzanne and Lisa, were born in Malta.
In 1978 the family left Malta for Canada where Vincent was senior geophysicist in the oil industry for almost 30 years. David studied law in Edmonton at the University of Alberta, and graduated in 2004, being called to the Bar in 2005.
After spending some years with a Canadian law firm, Macleod Dixon – initially as an associate and later as a senior associate – he joined another Canadian law firm, Torys, in 2011. He was made partner in 2015.
David practises corporate and commercial law with an emphasis on both Canadian and international energy, oil and gas, power and related transactions including acquisitions, joint ventures, partnerships and project development. He is a participating member of the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators, the Calgary Bar Association, and the Law Society of Alberta.
There is a strong legal tradition in David’s family. His great-grandfather, Albert Bonello, a legal procurator, was the uncle of Sir Luigi Camilleri, Chief Justice of Malta between 1952 and 1957. A family tree published in a biography of Sir Luigi (Sir Luigi Camilleri – His Life and Times, by Andrè Zammit, 2010) shows that there must be well over 30 lawyers, notaries or legal procurators who are descendants of Sir Luigi. David’s sister Suzanne is a barrister practising in Calgary and five of his cousins living in Malta are also lawyers.
David is married to Nicole, née Parrotta, and has two sons, Callum and Levi.