Aviation

Sharing your passion & working your way & in for the long haul & across the whole industry & crossing the globe & touching the metal & helping you to fly

Overview

We have practical, hands on experience of working within the aviation industry including advising airlines, lessors, financiers, aircraft manufacturers, groundhandlers, airports, MROs, freight forwarders, insurers, tour operators and travel agents around the world.

Strength in Breadth and Depth

Our mission is to combine our wide knowledge of the aviation sector and our legal expertise to develop commercial solutions that make business sense.

What unites our specialist team across our 28 offices worldwide is a genuine passion and enthusiasm for the industry.

We take pride in helping our clients to reach commercial, workable solutions across a wide range of transactions and ventures, at the cutting-edge of business and legal developments.

We provide advice on:

We can advise on just about every agreement, transaction, regulatory issue or type of dispute that the industry presents. Our aviation clients also turn to us for support on corporate transactions, employment, tax and intellectual property (IP) issues.

Contacts

Briggs-Paul

Paul Briggs

Partner
UK

Call me on: +44 (0)20 7415 6000
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Image of Leo Fattorini

Leo Fattorini

Partner
Singapore

Call me on: +65 6534 5266
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Recent highlights of work

  • Air Canada – patent dispute with seat manufacturer
  • Cargolux - purchase of 747-800F and a joint venture for financing
  • Jet2.com - airport agreements, purchase, financing and leasing of aircraft, employment and other regulatory and dispute resolution matters
  • Singapore Airlines - outsourcing, employment and data privacy issues
  • Virgin Atlantic - claim arising from the falsification by an aircraft seat manufacturer of key test results as well as on-going advice in relation to aircraft finance/leasing matters and employment issues
  • Willis Lease – West II engine securitisation

Accolades

  • Extensive experience handling a broad range of aviation law concerns, including aircraft financing, insurance, regulatory matters and competition.

    Chambers UK 2017

  • "I get the service level I would only expect if I were a big customer with a magic circle firm."

    Chambers UK

  • "Clients benefit from the team's impressive knowledge of the aviation industry, which is gained from years of experience in an in-house capacity."

    Chambers Europe

  • The ‘responsive and highly commercial’ team at Bird & Bird has ‘great aviation industry knowledge’, and is instructed by an expanding array of airlines.

    Legal 500

  • Bird & Bird has a ‘strong regulatory practice’ and ‘first-class technical knowledge.’

    The Legal 500

News & Events

  1. 1506-2018

    Screening of FDI - EU and national developments

    Currently, certain European Union ('EU') Member States (see the map below) maintain screening mechanisms for foreign direct investment ('FDI'). FDI can be described as non-EU persons or entities setting up or purchasing (parts of) EU businesses.

  2. 1406-2018

    Poland: Changes required to your Work Regulations or Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), if you want to monitor your employees

    As of 25 May 2018, every employer in Poland that applies any form of employee monitoring must adjust their internal regulations.

  3. 1406-2018

    EBA publishes an opinion and a consultation paper on the implementation of the RTS on strong customer authentication and common and secure communication under PSD2

    The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today two important documents on PSD2: an Opinion on the implementation of the RTS on strong customer authentication (SCA) and Common Secure Communication (CSC) and a Public Consultation on the exemption for Account Servicing Payment Service Providers (ASPSP) to provide a "fallback" solution to Third Party Providers (TPPs) (deadline to submit comments: 13 August 2018)

  1. 2703-2018

    Bird & Bird's Aviation Disputes team secures a US$90m payout for BOC Aviation in landmark case

    Bird & Bird's Aviation Disputes team in London has successfully represented Singapore-based BOC Aviation and BOC Aviation, Ireland, in a landmark case against the now defunct Kingfisher Airlines Limited, and its parent United Breweries.

  2. 0603-2018

    Bird & Bird wins the most awards by a single firm ever in the history of the China Business Law Awards

    Bird & Bird has won four individual Awards at the China Business Law Awards, the most by a single firm in the history of these awards.

  3. 0603-2018

    Bird & Bird appoints two new partners in Paris, expanding its Aviation, Space & Defence and Corporate capabilities

    International law firm Bird & Bird appoints two new partners in Paris, expanding its Aviation, Space & Defence and Corporate capabilities.

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  1. 2806-2018

    The new Package Travel Directive and Geo-blocking Regulation: how will these imminent new EU laws affect your business?

    Join us for this webinar, the first event in Bird & Bird's Travel programme for clients which provides a forum for those working in the Travel industry to network with peers, hear about the latest Travel industry trends and developments, share common experiences and challenges and learn from others.

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