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Jeffrey T. Veber

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Vice Chair, Executive Committee
Member, Board of Directors

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Jeffrey T. Veber

Shareholder

Vice Chair, Executive Committee
Member, Board of Directors

Jeffrey T. Veber is Vice Chair of the firm’s Executive Committee and a member of the firm’s Board of Directors. Mr. Veber is also a member of the firm’s Global Transportation Finance team.

With over 25 years of experience representing clients in transportation finance matters, Mr. Veber advises lenders, including commercial and investment banks and export-credit agencies, equity participants, funds, leasing companies and other financiers and investors in a wide range of matters. These matters include cross-border leveraged leases, asset-backed securitizations, structured financings, mortgage financings, back-leveraged operating lease financings, joint ventures and asset purchase agreements involving commercial aircraft and railcars.

Mr. Veber is recognized in the industry for his work with the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM Bank) in cross-border aircraft leasing transactions and cross-border locomotive mortgage financings, having represented Ex-Im Bank in numerous structured finance transactions with airlines, operating lessors and railroads throughout the world.

Mr. Veber has been consistently ranked by Chambers USA in the Nationwide Transportation: Aviation: Finance category since 2012 and has been ranked Band 1, the highest possible ranking, since 2020. Chambers Global also ranked him in the Aviation: Finance category from 2015 to 2019 and in the Asset Finance category since 2020. He was recognized as a leading Aviation Industry Mentor for 2024 by Airline Economics. Mr. Veber has also been recognized as a Leading Lawyer by The Legal 500 United States of America in the categories of Transport: Aviation and Air Travel—Finance since 2020 and Transport: Rail and Road – Finance since 2023. Mr. Veber was recognized among the World’s Leading Aviation Attorneys, Euromoney Legal Media Group Aviation Expert Guides from 2000 – 2021, “The Best of the Best USA (Top 30)” Aviation Expert Guide from 2007– 2022 and was ranked in the “The Best of the Best USA (Top 30)” Banking and Finance/Financial Services Regulatory in 2022. He has also been recognized by New York Super Lawyers since 2009. 

Jeffrey T. Veber

Shareholder

Vice Chair, Executive Committee
Member, Board of Directors

Education

  • Northwestern University School of Law, J.D., 1992
  • Colgate University, B.A., 1987

Jeffrey T. Veber

Shareholder

Vice Chair, Executive Committee
Member, Board of Directors

Bar Admissions

  • Illinois, 1992
  • New York, 2005

Court Admissions

  • U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois, 1992

Affiliations

  • Member, American Bar Association
  • Member, International Society of Transport Aircraft Trading (ISTAT)

Jeffrey T. Veber

Shareholder

Vice Chair, Executive Committee
Member, Board of Directors