Vedder Price

Justine L. Chilvers

Shareholder

Justine Chilvers is a Shareholder at Vedder Price and a member of the Global Transportation Finance team in the firm’s New York office.

Ms. Chilvers concentrates her practice in transportation finance, with a special focus on aviation and rail finance. She regularly advises commercial and investment banks, operating lessors, finance companies, funds and other aircraft investors on a wide range of cross-border and domestic aircraft and rail finance transactions, including revolving credit warehouse financings, mortgage financings, securitizations, EETCs and other structured debt financings, aviation-related M&A transactions and joint ventures, export credit agency-supported financing transactions, capital markets offerings and numerous other aviation and rail-related acquisition, sale and leasing transactions. Ms. Chilvers also advises clients on general corporate law matters.

Ms. Chilvers was selected for inclusion in the 2025 Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America® for Banking and Finance Law. She was named to the Airline Economics 40 Under 40 Class of 2024 list, which each year recognizes the most talented individuals in the commercial aviation industry under the age of 40. From 2020 and 2022, she was recognized as an Aviation Rising Star by Euromoney Legal Media Group’s Expert Guides.  In 2021 and 2022, Ms. Chilvers was recognized by The Legal 500 USA as a Rising Star in the Transport: Aviation & Air Travel Finance category. In 2023 and 2024, Legal 500 USA recognized her as a Next Generation Partner in the Transport: Aviation & Air Travel Finance category. Vedder Price was named Airline Economics Aviation 100 Law Firm of the Year in 2015, 2017 and 2018.

Ms. Chilvers holds dual citizenship in the United Kingdom and the United States and is proficient professionally in French.

Justine L. Chilvers

Shareholder

Education

  • Fordham University School of Law, J.D., 2013
  • University of Pennsylvania, 2008, magna cum laude

Justine L. Chilvers

Shareholder

Bar Admissions

  • New York, 2014

Affiliations

  • Member, American Bar Association
  • Member, New York State Bar Association
  • Member, New York City Bar Association

Justine L. Chilvers

Shareholder

Justine L. Chilvers

Shareholder