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Aviation and Asset Finance
Our Banking and Capital Markets team includes a highly experienced aviation and asset finance team that provides a fully integrated service on the most complex and multi-jurisdictional deals
We offer a unique combination of experience and expertise, working with specialists in our Taxation and Corporate Team.
We act for lessors, lessees, and financiers on financing structures across a range of asset classes, including narrow and wide-body aircraft and helicopters. We advise on platform creation and on asset-specific transactions.
Working with our litigation team, we have a strong track record of advising on the arrest of aircraft and ships, and on advising insurers on aircraft- and aviation-related claims. We apply our long-standing strengths in tax-based structuring and cross-border aviation financing to serve clients engaged in the growing field of non-traditional aviation financing. We have significant experience of advising on the use of “Section 110” companies to own and/or lease aircraft assets. We advise on Cape Town Convention issues and aviation regulatory matters.
Relevant Experience
Advising Bank of Ireland on its financing of Atlantic Aviation’s high-profile acquisition of Lufthansa Technik Shannon.
Acting as Irish counsel to an ad hoc group of secured creditors with combined debt in the restructuring of an aircraft leasing company.
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