Faeza Khan
Biography
Faeza Khan is an asset finance lawyer based in London. Faeza focuses on a wide range of aviation finance transactions, such as domestic and cross-border leasing (operating, financing, interchanging/sub-lease per hours, sale and leasebacks), fleet matters (general or bespoke to the client) and also restructuring work, specifically unwinding leasing and financing structures and advising onward aircraft arrangements. Faeza has acted for airlines, ECAs, lenders and lessors. Faeza has experience in domestic and cross-border transactions at every stage of aviation leasing and financing. Faeza spent seven months on secondment at BNP Paribas in the Corporate Trust team working in the bank’s trust agency capacity.
Expérience professionnelle
Principaux mandats
Principaux mandats
Advising:
- easyJet on various leasing arrangements with different lessors, novations, repayments and prepayments.
- LATAM Airlines Group S.A. on various cross border leasing arrangements for engines, airframe and aircraft, novations, engine swaps, repayments, prepayments, used and new aircraft deliveries, sale and leasebacks, refinancings, interchanges/sub-lease per hours, amongst others:
- Representing LATAM and working with LATAM bankruptcy counsel through Chapter 11 on “ongoing course of business” transactions.
- LATAM/ORIX B787 Project – two (2) aircraft (new) deliveries, operating lease and associated interchange/sub-lease per hours arrangements across multiple jurisdictions.
- LATAM/Aergo/UKEF B787s Project – four (4) aircraft (used) deliveries, operating lease and associated interchange/sub-lease per hours arrangements across multiple jurisdictions.
- LATAM/AerCap A321 Neo Project – eight (8) aircraft (new) deliveries, operating lease and subleasing.
- LATAM/AerCap A320s Project – five (5) aircraft (used) deliveries, operating lease and associated subleasing/interchange arrangements across multiple jurisdictions.
- LATAM/ECAs – five (5) engine swaps across multiple jurisdictions and associated subleasing.
- InterGlobe Aviation on various new aircraft deliveries
- Scandinavian Airlines Systems on Chapter 11 ‘ongoing course of business’ transactions
Other experience:
- Advising and setting-up in-house paralegal services for TAM Linhas Aéreas S.A. and training/supervising/managing the NRF Brazilian paralegals/trainees for the in-house paralegal services by monitoring/analysing the client’s fleet chart and deadlines, as well as presenting training sessions.
Formation
Formation
LLB (Hons) Law
Admissions
Admissions
- Solicitor qualified in England & Wales