David Hart

David advises corporate and financial sponsor clients on a range of transactions, including complex, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, co-investments and growth capital investments. His experience spans a number of asset classes, including digital infrastructure, real assets, and technology transactions. David has significant expertise in the data center space. He coordinates the Firm’s digital infrastructure group.

David has been named in The Tech Capital’s inaugural Legal 50 list, which recognizes the 50 most influential lawyers driving legal, regulatory and strategic development in digital infrastructure.

• Advised European satellite operator Eutelsat on the carve-out and sale of a majority stake in Eutelsat’s Ground Station Infrastructure Business to EQT.
• Advised Gulf Data Hub, a leading independent carrier and vendor neutral data center platform in the Middle East, on the sale of a significant stake to global investment firm KKR.
• Advised Equinix, Inc., the world's digital infrastructure company, on multiple transactions including:
  • its USD 600 million joint venture with PGIM Real Estate to develop and operate xScale data centers in Silicon Valley, USA
  • USD 525m joint venture with GIC to develop and operate xScale data centers in South Korea
  • its USD 3.9 billion joint venture with GIC to develop and operate xScale data centres in Europe and South Central America
  • its USD 575m joint venture with PGIM Real Estate to develop and operate xScale data centres in Australia
  • its USD 1 billion joint venture with GIC to develop and operate xScale data centres in Japan
  • its USD 1 billion joint venture with GIC to develop and operate xScale data centres in Europe
• Advised Lightsource bp on matters impacting the group arising out of bp’s agreement to acquire a 50.03% interest in Lightsource bp from Block M shareholders.
• Advised Poolside, the AI-powered software development platform, on its acquisition of Fern Labs.
• Advised the shareholders of ISDI, the X-ray detector and CMOS image sensor specialists, on the sale of a 30% interest to Careray.
• Advised investors including Warburg Pincus, Accel, Partech, Salesforce and HSBC on the sale of Privitar to Informatica.
• Advised fintech Salary Finance on the merger of its US business with FinFit.
• Advised NTT Docomo on the sale of its global payments business to UK fintech Bango.
• Advised consumer products group Helen of Troy on its USD 150m acquisition of Recipe Products Ltd, the owner of prestige hair care brand Curlsmith.
• Advised Epicor, a global leader of industry-specific enterprise software on its acquisition of Data Interchange, a provider of EDI cloud technologies and managed services.
• Advised Atos on its acquisition of Ipsotek, a leading AI enhanced video analytics software provider.
• Advised Finbourne on its Series A funding round, including strategic investments from Fidelity International Strategic Ventures and London Stock Exchange Group.

• Law Society of England & Wales - Member