Alexandra Spain

Primary Focus & Experience

Alexandra has experience acting for a range of lessors, financial institutions and operators on a variety of asset leasing and financing transactions. She has acted on various aircraft and shipping portfolio acquisitions, operating lease and warehouse financing transactions.

A selection of Alexandra’s experience includes advising:

• Citibank, Societe Generale, Royal Bank of Canada and NordLB as lenders and arrangers in connection with a secured credit facility for up to $640,000,000 for TrueNoord for the financing of the acquisition of an initial portfolio of 10 identified aircraft (including 4 ATR42-600 and 6 E2-195 aircraft), and further aircraft to be identified in the future.
• Fortress in connection with the sale of Falko Regional Aircraft Limited to Chorus Aviation.
• the equity investors in relation to British Airways private placement EETC offering involving a JOLCO equity structure for the financing of two Airbus A320neo aircraft and two Airbus A350-1000 aircraft.
• the borrower on a USD$40m revolving credit facility, with a further $20m accordion facility to refinance existing debt and the purchase of new vessels.
• an aircraft leasing company in a Japanese operating lease with call option (JOLCO) transaction in respect of two Embraer E195-E2 aircraft.
• an international aircraft leasing company on the purchase and novation of 6 commercial aircraft.
• a regional aircraft lessor on multiple drawdowns under its revolving warehouse facility for a range of aircraft on lease across Europe, Africa and Asia.