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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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

  • "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. 2508-2017

    Government consultation on implementation of the NIS Directive: How will it affect the transportation sector?

    On 8 August 2017, the Government launched a consultation on how best to implement the Network and Information Systems (NIS) Directive, which aims to increase the security of network and information systems across the EU.

  2. 0706-2017

    How will Brexit affect the airline industry from a regulatory perspective?

    On 29 March 2017, the UK Government served formal notice under Article 50 of The Treaty on European Union to terminate the UK's membership of the EU (following the June 2016 UK referendum on EU membership). Based on Article 50, the EU Treaties shall cease to apply to the UK and the UK exit will take effect in March 2019 (subject to the unlikely possibility of the withdrawal agreement being concluded sooner and unless all Member States agree to extend the period). Negotiation of a new trade agreement with the EU could take several years beyond 2019 although the Prime Minister has declared the objective of achieving such an agreement within the two-year period. This bulletin intends to briefly describe the implications of the decision from an aviation regulatory perspective.

  3. 1505-2017

    Wet leasing uncertainty

    Marcus Pyke and Tim Boström, Associates at Bird & Bird, take a look at recent amendments being considered for the EU wet-leasing regime and how it might facilitate changes in the US–EU wet-leasing market

  1. 2804-2017

    Bird & Bird advises on two Airfinance Journal Deal of the Year Award winning transactions and expands its Aviation Finance team

    International law firm Bird & Bird LLP secured two recognitions from Airfinance Journal in its 2016 Deals of the Year Awards. The awards recognise notable transactions in aviation finance market.

  2. 1605-2016

    Bird & Bird hires aviation rising star: Jim Bell is appointed as a partner in the London Aviation Group

    Bird & Bird is delighted to announce the appointment of Jim Bell, a rising star in the field of aviation finance, as a partner in the Aviation & Aerospace Group, based in London...

  3. 0801-2016

    Bird & Bird in the media: Tomasz Prost

    Tomasz Prost, Associate from our Warsaw Aviation, Defence & Security group, was interviewed by Newseria Biznes, a Polish business multimedia news agency, on the UAV market in Poland. The interview was inspired by a very practical chapter written by Tomasz on legal issues concerning UAVs in Poland and published in a report Rynek dronów w Polsce 2015. Księga popytu i podaży by the 'Mikro Makro Institute'. Bird & Bird is a partner of the report

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  1. 1210-2017

    Aviation & Defence annual conference

    We are seeing the aviation and defence industry being transformed by technology and the digital world. This is a truly exciting time for our sector.

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