Vedder Price’s Commercial Aviation Finance practice group has achieved global recognition and prominence representing a wide variety of clients worldwide, including airlines, operating lessors, commercial banks, investment banks, private equity funds, manufacturers and governmental agencies. Our commercial aviation finance lawyers form the core of the Global Transportation Finance team at Vedder Price, which Chambers Global has recognized as “one of the top law firms for Asset Finance in the world.”

Our attorneys are known worldwide for successfully representing clients in a broad variety of commercial aviation transactions, including single-investor operating leases, secured loans, U.S. leveraged leases, cross-border leases, back-leveraged operating leases, warehouse facilities, predelivery payment facilities and residual-value guaranties.

We also handle purchases and sales of single and multiple aircraft, engines and spare parts as well as general aviation equipment. The group also works with manufacturers, airlines and lessors on long-term arrangements, such as purchase agreements for new equipment (including manufacturer credit support) and technical agreements such as storage, general maintenance and freighter conversion contracts.

Vedder Price attorneys have the flexibility to work on transactions as straightforward as parts sales and as complex as multitranche debt facilities involving private and public financing sources with third-party credit support provided by both private and governmental entities. Our attorneys have worked on all major airline bankruptcies of the past 15 years and have extensive experience restructuring all types of transactions, both in and out of court, as well as enforcing lessor and lender remedies upon default.