Head of the UK asset management and investment funds practice, David has almost 20 years’ experience advising on both advisory and transactional matters with particular experience in the alternative investment fund, asset management and institutional investment sectors. David’s clients include high-profile asset managers, pension schemes, institutional investors and large sovereign wealth funds.

David's experience

  • Advising Asian Development Bank on the design and development of an innovative Energy Transition Mechanism (ETM) in Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines. The unprecedented ETM is a proposed funding vehicle to purchase or contractually take over coal power or other fossil fuel-based generation assets while supporting the scale-up of renewable energy.

    • Cross-border
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  • Advised Dalmore Capital Limited on the establishment of two new investment funds structured as English limited partnerships to participate in the Porterbrook infrastructure transaction.

  • Advised Dalmore on the acquisition structure utilised for the £1 billion+ acquisition of the Cory Riverside Energy from Waste facility, the largest plant of its type. This included a complex structure with over 10 separate LP fund structures raising money from institutional investors in numerous jurisdictions.

  • Advised NEST on its investment in GLIL Infrastructure LLP. GLIL was established to drive direct investment in core UK infrastructure and support the long-term objectives of pension funds and local authority pooling. NEST’s investment takes GLIL’s total capital to c £2.5bn.

  • Advised Railpen in connection with the establishment of the Greencoat Wilton LP; a fund-of-one set up to invest in a UK renewable energy plant and managed by Greencoat Capital LLP - one of the UK’s largest investors in the resource efficiency and renewable energy market.

  • Advised Gresham House Renewable Energy LP on its acquisition of Inverclyde Windfarm Limited, which owns the 24MW Inverclyde wind farm, from BayWa r.e. This included advice on the acquisition plus the setting up of the new fund.

  • Advised Dalmore Capital Limited on their establishment of a multi-fund structure for a significant investment in rail infrastructure.

Credentials

  • 2017
    Joined Pinsent Masons
  • 2001
    Qualified - Scotland
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Out-Law / Insight by David Young

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