Welcoming Corporate Real Estate Partner David Evans
Global law firm Fried Frank announced that David Evans will be joining the firm as a partner in its Corporate Real Estate Practice in London. David has over 30 years of experience advising in the real estate arena, focused, in particular, on joint ventures, M&A and real estate fund structuring and formation.
“Adding a recognized industry leader like David to our renowned Real Estate Department will be immediately accretive to our clients and the firm,” said Jonathan L. Mechanic, partner and chairman of Fried Frank’s Real Estate Department. “His experience advising investors on deals at all stages of the real estate life cycle will perfectly complement our existing UK practice, working alongside partners Roger Schofield and Patrick Williams. We are very excited to welcome him to the firm.”
“We are extremely focused on continuing to build a talented team in London with extensive market experience in our core areas of expertise. David is exactly that and a great addition to our firm,” added Ashar Qureshi, managing partner of Fried Frank’s London office and head of the firm’s EMEA Global Transactions Practice. “We look forward to welcoming him as we continue to execute on our strategy to partner with clients on their most complex and transformative transactions.”
Evans is the latest addition to Fried Frank’s London office, following the hire of Oliver Currall (tax), Aranpreet Randhawa (asset management), Geoff O’Dea (restructuring), Roger Schofield (real estate), and Christian Iwasko, Michelle Tong and Priya Rupal (all private equity) in the past 18 months. The firm was recently ranked in the top five firms for UK M&A by deal value in both Q1 and H1 2025 by LSEG, and had a record 15 partners ranked as “Leading Lawyers” in their respective fields in the most recent issue of Chambers UK.
In the last five years, Fried Frank’s London office has grown by 60% to over 120 attorneys, including 35 partners. Replicating the core strengths of the firm globally, our UK platform now boasts market-leading antitrust, asset management, finance, private equity and M&A, real estate, restructuring and tax practices. Recent transactions led out of the London office include advising Bally’s Corporation on the €2.7 billion sale of its International Interactive business to Intralot; Crescent Capital Group on the closing of its €3 billion third European specialty lending fund; Citadel in the pre-letting of over a third of British Land’s benchmark highly sustainable workspace development at 2 Finsbury Avenue — the largest offices pre-letting in London in 2024; IK Partners on its majority investment in HSL Compliance; the franchisee of Pizza Hut, the board and administrators of Interpath Advisory on the restructuring and pre-packaged administration sale of the Pizza Hut business in the United Kingdom and Ireland to Directional Capital; and Starlight Investments on the landmark acquisition of three build-to-rent communities under development in Manchester and Basildon valued at more than £500 million.
Fried Frank's Real Estate Department is a premier practice. With broad experience in all aspects of commercial real estate law, we are capable of successfully representing our clients in all facets of commercial real estate transactions. Our clients are industry powerhouses that are responsible for contributing to the development and reshaping of skylines of major cities around the world.
This news story was originally published on the firm’s website.