David’s experience includes advising:

• The Baupost Group on a £900 million joint venture acquisition, together with KKR as its 50:50 partner, of a portfolio of 33 Marriott hotels across the UK from a wholly owned subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority

• Sixth Street on its UK and European real estate acquisitions, investments, joint ventures and financings

• Partners Group on its UK and European real estate acquisitions and investments including domestic and cross-border joint ventures and financings including a programmatic joint venture with Host Student Housing to build up a £1 billion UK purpose built student accommodation (PBSA) and co-living platform and on the joint venture’s first acquisition of a four-asset seed portfolio

• Yondr on the €500 million acquisition, development and financing of one of the World’s largest data centres and its associated letting to a major international tech company

• GIC in connection with its acquisition of a 40% interest in The Oxford Science Park from Magdalen College, Oxford and on a strategic joint venture between GIC and Magdalen College aimed at accelerating major development of the Science Park

• King Street and Arax Properties on their joint venture acquisition from Blackstone of Alban Gate in the City of London for £295 million and on the associated financing with Apollo

• Dutch pension fund APG on:

• • its acquisition of a 75 per cent. interest in a joint venture with Nuveen (formerly TH Real Estate), with a combined equity commitment of c.£800 million, to develop the St James Centre in Edinburgh, one of the UK's largest private regeneration projects
  • a €400 million joint venture with Hines Ireland to develop four greenfield sites at Cherrywood, Dublin for PRS and associated retail and leisure purposes and on a wider €700 million PRS joint venture in the Dublin area

• QuadReal on UK and European indirect real estate investments

• Atlas Edge, a leading pan-European Edge data centre provider and joint venture between Liberty Global and Digital Bridge on various matters including financing arrangements to support its construction of new data centres in Portugal

• A U.S. Opportunity Fund with over $27 billion of assets under management on its UK and European real estate acquisitions and investments including domestic and cross-border joint venture

• Bain Capital Real Estate in evaluating, negotiating and structuring real estate investments directly as well as through joint ventures, funds, co-investments and management arrangements with international and domestic sponsors, operators and manager

• Saïd Holdings on its real estate investments and financings, including on the acquisition and subsequent sale of 5 Churchill Place, Canary Wharf, London, to a Chinese investor for £270 million

• A South African Investor on a series of central London office acquisitions and financings totalling c.£250 million including the acquisition and financing of One Bartholomew Lane in the City of London

• A PERE Fund on its tenant credit sale and leaseback of a portfolio of special educational needs schools with a leading institutional landlord

Please note this includes experience at previous firms.