Milbank’s Global Transportation and Space team, led by Singapore partner and contributing editor, Paul Ng, authored the UK and US law Aviation Finance & Leasing chapters of Legal 500’s Country Comparative Guides for the second year since its inauguration in 2020.
Legal 500’s Country Comparative Guides are produced in association with many of the world’s leading lawyers and give the in-house community a practical overview of the laws and regulations in key jurisdictions for specific practice areas. The latest edition of Legal 500’s Aviation Finance & Leasing Guide provides expert insight on pressing issues affecting aviation and financing, discussing topics such as international conventions, foreign judgments, registration-issues, lessor’s rights of enforcement, security, insurance and tax matters.
The UK chapter was prepared by a joint team of lawyers from Milbank’s London and Singapore offices led by Mr. Ng and special counsel Siddharth Sharma, with associates Edward Bentley in Singapore and Andy Levett and Cosmos Fung in London, while the US law chapter was led by New York-based partner Freyda Mechlowicz with associates Zachary Cronin and Steve Goff.
Milbank’s Global Transportation and Space practice has a long and successful track record of advising on the largest, most significant aviation sector and asset finance transactions across the globe. The practice is consistently ranked Tier 1 for UK Transport Finance and Leasing by Legal 500 and Band 1 for Aviation Finance in the USA and the UK by Chambers & Partners. The Milbank team is also listed as a Band 1 Firm in Chambers Global: Asset Finance - Global Market Leaders legal rankings. The transactions that the team advises on are routinely recognized with “Deal of the Year” awards from leading aviation publications - most recently winning 11 Deal of the Year awards from Airfinance Journal’s Global Awards in addition to receiving a top ranking in its 2020 Legal Survey. Milbank was also named “Americas Law Firm of the Year” by Airline Economics for having advised on every winning “Deal of the Year” transaction in 2020.
Read Legal 500’s Country Comparative Guide: United Kingdom: Aviation Finance & Leasing chapter here.
Read Legal 500’s Country Comparative Guide: United States: Aviation Finance & Leasing chapter here.
