David Evans

David Evans is a partner in Goodwin’s Real Estate Industry group. He is a former member of the firm’s Executive Committee. David's practice focuses on all aspects of real estate fund structuring and formation, as well as joint ventures and mergers and acquisitions in the real estate arena. David has considerable experience dealing with complex tax and real estate issues applicable to fund structuring, for both UK and pan-European funds, with particular expertise in Luxembourg structures. His clients include Greenoak, Henderson Park, M7 and Kennedy Wilson. According to Chambers UK, David is highly regarded for his expertise in forming Europe-focused real estate funds. Sources highlight that he is a “well respected” and “leading practitioner.”

Some recent transactions include:

• Advising Medical Properties Trust on an approximately $2 billion joint venture with Primonial Real Estate in relation to a significant portfolio of German acute care hospitals
• Advising M7 on a series of pan-European real estate funds, aggregating in excess of €1 billion
• Advising M7 on the formation (and seeding) of a €500 million open ended real estate fund
• Advising Kennedy Wilson on a significant Dublin PRS joint venture with AXA
• Advising Henderson Park in relation to a series of central London PRS joint ventures with Greystar
• Advising Greenoak on the establishment of various UK and pan-European real estate funds, both equity and debt
• Advising Greenoak in relation to two significant French real estate joint ventures
• Advising Greenoak in relation to multiple European real estate joint ventures

Prior to joining Goodwin in 2011, David was a partner at Ashurst LLP, where he served as head of its Investment Funds Group.

David features in Chambers & Partners and The Legal 500 as a leading lawyer for Real Estate Funds and Commercial Property: Investment. The most recent edition of The Legal 500 UK (2023) named him as a ‘Leading Individual’ in two categories; Real Estate Funds and Commercial Property: Investment. Clients note: “When David is running a transaction we have full confidence that no issue, small or large, will slip through the cracks” and “David understands the needs of our company, explains complex legal issues in a way that's easily understandable and advises in such a way that allows us to be confident in making commercial decisions." David is also recognized for excellence in The Best Lawyers in the United Kingdom.