AEROSPACE MANUFACTURERS
Aerospace lawyers act for a variety of aerospace product manufacturers, service providers and suppliers, advising them on their manufacture and supply liabilities.
The main area of expertise is product liability law, counselling management on legal risk and to provide realistic solutions to disputes in any jurisdiction. When required, firms call upon international offices and an extensive network of local law firm contacts to produce top-quality work wherever clients operate.
Work for product manufacturers includes drafting contracts, advising on warranties and exclusionary language, resolving disputes in product integrity planning through arbitration, litigation or other forms of dispute resolution.
Corporate and commercial teams advise manufacturing clients on company law, corporate restructuring, insolvency, mergers and acquisitions and IPOs.
Maintenance and repair organisations and their insurers need liability advice, MROs on contractual language.
AIRLINES
International and regional airlines need advice on a wide variety of matters, aviation liability and regulatory matters.
Dispute resolution
Litigation teams need to have extensive experience of substantial multiparty and multi-jurisdictional disputes, regulatory and competition law, economic and safety regulation and competition law issues, advising airlines, tour operators, manufacturers and regulators, air service agreements, conditions of carriage, aircraft and operations licensing, criminal conduct aboard aircraft, nationality rules on ownership and control of airlines, slot allocation and state aid, acquisitions, alliances, code-shares and franchises, application to and investigations by the European Commission.
Commercial, corporate, employment and financial law
includes the acquisition, sale and leasing of aircraft (the terms, mortgages, and tax and finance structures), the termination of leases and enforcement of security, including aircraft repossessions, IPOs, M&As, group reorganisations, securitisations, debt reschedulings and insolvencies.
AVIATION FINANCE
Aviation finance often presents complex legal issues arising from the innovative financing techniques now in use for the
sale, purchase and leasing of aircraft, aircraft engines and other components.
Taxation know-how further helps clients to identify commercial opportunities, whether by reducing the costs of implementing a transaction or by minimising subsequent tax outflows.