Dr. Matthias Winter

My work includes all types of leasing and other forms of asset finance (in particular aircraft and rolling stock) and project finance transactions.

Before joining Bird & Bird in April 2013, I worked for a Magic Circle law firm and prior to that as a research assistant for Prof Rohe at the University of Erlangen.

• Wascosa AG: Advice on the acquisition of Nacco GmbH and the take-over of the German business of Nacco SAS in connection to the partial sale, demanded by the Federal Cartel Office, ahead of the sale of Nacco SAS to vtg Aktiengesellschaft.
• Swiss Infrastructure fund: Advice on the acquisition and the transfer of use of twelve Alstom Prima H3 Hybrid shunting locomotives.
• DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale: Advice in connection with the purchase and financing (borrowed capital and various classes of bonds) of two used Boeings 777-300ER and an Airbus A380-861 plane, which are leased to emirates. We won the Airfinance Journal Innovative Deal of the Year 2016 Award with this project.
• EMP Structured Assets GmbH: Advice on two ECA Guaranteed Multicurrency A380 Lease financings for Emirates with Korean junior funding.
• A German investment arranger: Advice on the purchase and financing of a new Airbus A380-842 aircraft and three used Airbus A380 aircraft leased to Emirates via an Islamic Ijaara Financing and a remaining equity portion via Subordinated Loan Notes held by German private investors.

• Aircraft Finance
• Airlines
• Aviation & Aerospace
• Commercial Aerospace
• Corporate
• Energy & Utilities
• Finance & Financial Regulation
• Rail
• Restructuring and Insolvency