Our work has covered a wide range of matters, such as:
- Rolling stock procurement, finance and leasing
- Marine finance (including remotely operated underwater vehicles)
- General equipment leasing, including finance and operating leases, hire purchase, and sale and leaseback
- Major portfolio sales and purchases
- IFRS 16-compliant off-balance sheet structuring
- Financing of lease receivables
- Block discounting
- Financing of energy and power projects including STOR, capacity mechanism, anaerobic digestion, wind and solar
- Security arrangements and residual value support
- Funding of medical equipment into the public and private sector
- Introduction agreements and disclosed/undisclosed agency arrangements for customer finance documents
- Vendor programme agreements
- Purchase, collection and sales agency arrangements
- Consumer credit and consumer hire (including compliance advice)
- Aviation transactional work - including aircraft and engine financing, operating leases, wet leases and charters; purchase agreements for new and used aircraft and engines; maintenance and repair agreements, including power-by-the-hour agreements for engines and components.
- Aviation regulatory matters - including economic regulation (operating licences, route licences, air transport licences, state aid); competition law and merger control advice; safety regulation (air operators' certificates, certificates of airworthiness and airworthiness review certificates, crew licensing); airport regulation (including slots); registration issues (including Cape Town Convention registration); ETS (the application of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme to aviation); carriage documentation (including conditions of carriage, passenger tickets and air waybills).
- Aviation litigation - including employment issues, aircraft repossessions, transactional disputes and insurance coverage disputes.
We have dedicated specialist teams operating in each of these areas. Where necessary or appropriate, we also access other relevant areas of expertise within the firm, such as asset finance, banking, tax, corporate, commercial and competition.
