Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP serves clients in a broad range of domestic and cross-border leasing matters, representing lessors, lessees, financiers and other participants in operating, finance and tax-driven lease transactions. In particular, our domestic and international clients have sought our services in leasing transactions that have included leveraged and single-investor leases, cross-border leases, sale-leasebacks, operating leases, synthetic leases, lease portfolio acquisitions and sales, multijurisdictional and international restructurings, 1031 exchanges, export credit agency transactions and maintenance, repair and operation (MRO) and vendor support transactions.
Our clients include—
- lessors, lessees, lenders, borrowers and equity participants in operating and leverage lease transactions
- multinational investment banks and investment funds in big-ticket leasing transactions
- major multinational aircraft and aircraft engine leasing companies, as well as national, regional and multinational cargo and passenger airlines, in aviation equipment leasing transactions
- institutional investors, investment banks, investment funds and credit enhancers in aircraft and equipment lease securitization transactions.
We have also represented clients with many types of leasing asset classes, including shipping containers, power facilities and equipment, energy production equipment, telecommunications equipment, commercial aircraft, aviation parts and equipment, municipal facilities financing, defense-related equipment and shipping vessels.
Our engagements involve both structuring advice and transaction documentation at the onset of a transaction, as well as work-out and dispute resolution during the life of the transaction.