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Dave Powell focuses on structuring real estate equity and debt investments. A partner in our Real Estate practice, Dave represents investors in a variety of real estate transactions, with a focus on joint ventures and other partnerships.
Dave represents institutional, private equity and non-U.S. investors in structuring and managing U.S. real estate equity and debt investments, often through private real estate investment trusts, partnerships and other joint venture transactions. He advises these clients in connection with asset and entity-level acquisitions, joint ventures, dispositions and financings across all asset classes.
Dave was recognized as a Next Generation Lawyer by the Legal 500 2017 guide in Real Estate. A frequent panelist and speaker on real estate joint ventures, Dave is also an Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School and has been a Lecturer at Law at Columbia Law School. He currently serves on the board of Urban Dove, a network of high schools serving under-credited students.
J.D., University of Georgia, cum laude
B.A. Political Science, North Carolina State University
Georgia
New York
North Carolina
December 1, 2025
King & Spalding advises Eagle Corporation in the $675 million sale of Concrete Pipe & Precast, LLC
November 14, 2025
K&S advises Douglaston Development, which was selected to build 590 units of high-quality, mixed-income housing at Gansevoort Square in Manhattan
November 13, 2025
Douglaston Development to Build Mixed-Income Housing at Gansevoort Square
Represented Mitsui Fudosan America, Inc., in the formation of joint ventures for the acquisition of office, multi-family and mixed-use development properties in New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C.
Represented a New York–based private equity firm in the formation of programmatic joint ventures with two senior housing developers for the acquisition, development and operation of senior housing facilities in the Northeast and California.
Represented a private REIT with approximately $20 billion in assets in acquisition and disposition activities in New York City and surrounding areas.
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September 22, 2017
U.S. Real Estate Acquisitions
December 1, 2025
King & Spalding advises Eagle Corporation in the $675 million sale of Concrete Pipe & Precast, LLC
November 14, 2025
K&S advises Douglaston Development, which was selected to build 590 units of high-quality, mixed-income housing at Gansevoort Square in Manhattan
November 13, 2025
Douglaston Development to Build Mixed-Income Housing at Gansevoort Square
Represented Mitsui Fudosan America, Inc., in the formation of joint ventures for the acquisition of office, multi-family and mixed-use development properties in New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C.
Represented a New York–based private equity firm in the formation of programmatic joint ventures with two senior housing developers for the acquisition, development and operation of senior housing facilities in the Northeast and California.
Represented a private REIT with approximately $20 billion in assets in acquisition and disposition activities in New York City and surrounding areas.
See more
September 22, 2017
U.S. Real Estate Acquisitions
December 1, 2025
King & Spalding advises Eagle Corporation in the $675 million sale of Concrete Pipe & Precast, LLC
November 14, 2025
K&S advises Douglaston Development, which was selected to build 590 units of high-quality, mixed-income housing at Gansevoort Square in Manhattan
November 13, 2025
Douglaston Development to Build Mixed-Income Housing at Gansevoort Square
J.D., University of Georgia, cum laude
B.A. Political Science, North Carolina State University
Georgia
New York
North Carolina