Areas of Focus
In aviation finance, we guide investors, lessors, and financiers through market volatility, regulatory challenges, and changing capital conditions, helping them overcome industry obstacles with legal precision.
- Drafting and negotiation of complex financial instruments such as aviation leases, loans, and securitizations
- Multijurisdictional purchases and sales, sale-leasebacks, and asset management strategies across aviation assets worldwide
- Global aviation regulatory and tax solutions
- Legal strategies for insurance, liability management, and aviation asset protection
- Advocacy in high-stakes litigation, arbitration, and bankruptcy proceedings unique to aviation
We guide aircraft manufacturers, suppliers, and maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) companies through regulatory turbulence—clearing runways that lead to opportunities in digital and green avionics and other transformative technologies.
- Financing, insurance, securities offerings, and international trade advice
- Regulatory compliance, accident response and safety, and employment counsel for carriers
- Advocacy before the US Department of Justice (DOJ) regarding clearance for industry-specific mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures
- Airport security regulations and enforcement involving the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA)
- Sales, financings, equipment certification, US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) enforcement, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigations, and environmental assessments
We help fortify supply chains, streamline certifications, and safeguard innovation for a range of aviation suppliers. From eco-friendly manufacturing to export compliance, we’re dedicated to ensuring a smooth trajectory amid changing conditions.
- Counsel involving strict aviation regulations and certifications and legal compliance across production and supply chain channels
- Commercial agreements, including leasing and financing transactions
- IP solutions protecting proprietary technologies and innovation
- Labor and employment advice, including workforce management, regulatory compliance, and litigation defense
- Restructuring and insolvency counsel ranging from analyzing existing contracts, workouts, and financing transactions to bankruptcy litigation
We help ensure airline operator innovation and compliance by advising on an expansive range of workforce challenges.
- Accident investigations, enforcement, securities, international trade, licensing, and tax advice
- Regulatory, legislative, safety, employment, certification, route proceedings, contract negotiations, and dispute resolution
- Antitrust advice, including defense, counseling, and major aviation proceedings
- Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) licensing and operation guidance across myriad industries
- Global aviation finance and insurance counsel, including M&A, investigations, and technology
From supersonic jet development to sustainable fuel adoption, we advise on the evolving regulatory, business, and technological changes that business and private aircraft owners and operators face.
- FAA, US Department of Transportation (DOT), and TSA regulations, enforcement challenges, and compliance issues, including accident investigations and international trade matters
- Aviation-specific due diligence, M&A, restructurings, ownership requirements, tax, and complex commercial agreements and leases
- Aviation-related litigation, including accidents, contract disputes, and international dispute resolution
- UAS integration and other cutting-edge aviation technologies
- Air carrier operation, airport development, security initiative, and employment matters
