Aviation

Financings

• Advising Crédit Agricole CIB, as JOLCO arranger, facility agent, security trustee and lender, on Aegean Airlines S.A.’s debut JOLCO financing of three Airbus aircraft.
• Advising DHL, the global market leader in the logistics industry, on the financing of Boeing 777F freighter and Airbus A330 passenger-to-freighter aircraft.
• Representing a major European state-flag carrier in connection with its French-tax lease financing.
• Aircraft and Engine Purchase Orders
• Advising Saudia on its purchase of 50 electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) jets from Lilium GmbH, with options for the purchase of 50 more.
• Representing a Middle Eastern carrier on its purchase of nearly fifty 787 Dreamliner Aircraft.

Trading and Leasing

• Representing a major international leasing company in connection with the sale of used aircraft portfolios and on associated novation transactions.
• Representing a major international leasing company in connection with the acquisition of new and used aircraft portfolios and on associated novation transactions.
• Representing a major international leasing company in connection with the distressed sale and trade of used aircraft.
• Representing LOT Polish Airlines in respect of various operating leases of Boeing 787-8,787-9 and 737MAX aircraft with various lessors including ACG, Avolon and Phoenix Aviation Capital.
• Representing a major South Asian low-cost airline in connection with the sale and leaseback of several new aircraft.
• Representing Wizz Air in connection with the sale and leaseback of several new and used aircraft.

Offshore oil and gas

• Advising a syndicate of international lenders to the SBM Offshore group on the US$720m project financing for FPSO Liza Destiny. The floating production, storage and offloading vessel was initially chartered to (and is now owned by) ExxonMobil affiliate ExxonMobil Guyana Limited (formerly Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited).
• Advising a syndicate of international lenders to the SBM Offshore group on the US$1.14 billion project financing for FPSO Liza Unity. The floating production, storage and offloading vessel was initially chartered to (and is now owned by) ExxonMobil affiliate ExxonMobil Guyana Limited (formerly Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited).
• Advising a syndicate of international lenders to the SBM Offshore group on the US$1.05 billion project financing for FPSO Liza Prosperity. The floating production, storage and offloading vessel was initially chartered to (and is now owned by) ExxonMobil affiliate ExxonMobil Guyana Limited (formerly Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited).
• Advising a syndicate of international lenders to the SBM Offshore group on the US$ 1.75 billion project financing for FPSO One Guayana. The floating production, storage and offloading vessel is chartered to ExxonMobil affiliate ExxonMobil Guyana Limited (formerly Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited).