Asset Finance

Structuring and documenting asset finance transactions can be complex, often involving multiple jurisdictions with competing legal and tax systems. We can help you navigate through this challenging landscape, identify opportunities, and create structures that deliver the best possible outcomes.

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Our industry-focused team cuts through the complexity, working from our offices across Europe, the United States, the Middle East, and Asia to deliver commercial solutions wherever your business takes you.

We represent operators, lessors, lessees, banks, funds, manufacturers, export credit agencies, and governments on challenging, multiparty transactions across a full range of asset sectors including aviation, rail, shipping, and plant and equipment.

We develop innovative solutions for our clients, many of which are "firsts” for them and their sectors. This reflects our deep sector understanding and our reputation as a strong, commercially driven practice and trusted advisor.

Aviation Finance

Rail Finance

Shipping Finance

Plant and Equipment Financing

Structuring and documenting aviation finance transactions is complex. When assets are located across borders and subject to the laws of multiple jurisdictions, the complexity increases. Timing and tax efficiency are critical.

Through our extensive network of international offices, and in-depth industry know-how, we work on a wide range of structures for the acquisition, financing and disposal of aircraft and aircraft portfolios, including helicopters and corporate aircraft. Our experience spans commercial financings, export credit agency and non-payment insurance (NPI)-supported financings, tax-based financings (especially France, Germany and Japan-based), Islamic financings, predelivery payment financings, warehouse financings, capital markets financings, and securitizations (both true sale and synthetic).

Whether working on heavy rail, light rail, or underground transport systems, these transactions often demand deep industry knowledge coupled with experienced legal know-how. Our industry-focused team provides up-to-date, targeted advice and the innovative solutions our clients need to achieve their commercial goals.

We work on the largest and most complex rail finance transactions. Our team has the full range of international experience of financing light and heavy rail projects, as well as discreet rolling stock fleet and/or portfolio finance transactions.

We have advised on the full spread of financing techniques. In addition to commercial bank limited recourse lending, we have helped to structure platform financings, bonds, mixed bond/bank financings, wrapped financings, acquisition financings, asset financings, and derivatives. And we have worked with listing authorities and ratings agencies on various transactions.

The shipping sector is truly global in nature, and its constant evolution is driven by fluctuating demand and finance options, uncertain shipyard capacity, and greater environmental regulation. Against this backdrop, our team advises clients on an extensive and varied range of international transactions.

We have advised on financings for the full range of vessel types — from offshore oil and gas (tankers, liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers, floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) units, rigs, and support vessels) to bulk carriers, ferries, cruise, super yachts, container, dredging, and other vessels.

Our clients include operators, charterers, funds, banks ship builders, owners, and government sponsored institutions.

Raising finance for equipment is vital for our clients' business success.

Our team has extensive experience advising banks, equipment manufacturers, infrastructure developers, equity investors, lessors, lessees, and governments, on the leasing, acquisition, and disposal of significant equipment and equipment portfolios. This includes cables, batteries, battery energy storage systems (BESS), telecommunications and IT equipment, water equipment, and industrial plant and machinery.

Hear from our clients and industry leaders

An exceptional quality of service.

Legal 500 France 2025, Shipping Finance

They have an in-depth team with significant experience in the aviation sector.

Chambers UK 2025, Asset Finance: Aviation Finance

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Robert Fugard

Partner

Robert Fugard

Partner

London

Richard Goss

Partner

Richard Goss

Partner

London

Mehtap Cevher Conti

Partner

Mehtap Cevher Conti

Partner

New York

Alexander Premont

Partner

Alexander Premont

Partner

Paris, London

Kaveeta Sandhu

Partner

Kaveeta Sandhu

Partner

Singapore

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Representative experience

Norwegian on its backstop finance lease facility for up to ten B737-8 aircraft with CCB Leasing.

Emirates on its Bpifrance-supported financing by Citibank of the first two of its orderbook of 65 A350-900 aircraft.

Icelandair on its ITASCA NPI-supported financing of two B737-8 aircraft with NordLB.

Hapag-Lloyd on three green ship financings to finance the acquisition of a new fleet of container vessels with an aggregate volume of over US$1.5bn.

Stonepeak on the US$3.1bn take-private definitive acquisition agreement for Air Transport Services Group (ATSG).

Verkor on the financing of its Innovation Centre for €100m and its Gigafactory for €1.5bn, one of the largest battery manufacturing development projects in the world.

Société Générale, Crédit Industriel et Commercial and KBC Bank NV on the financing of the project costs in relation to one new-build heavy lifting vessel "Green Jade" for the DEME Group.

CACIB and nine other lenders in relation to a US$139m Balthazar-supported loan for the purchase of a new Airbus A350-1000 aircraft.

APOC Aviation, the intuitive trading and leasing specialist focused on engines, landing gear and used serviceable material (USM) aircraft components, on a significant multi-faceted financing facility with Deutsche Bank AG via its transportation structured finance group.

on a multi-billion-euro high speed Rail Baltica project, the largest Baltic-region infrastructure project in the last 100 years.

Viva Aerobus on the $87m Itasca supported financing with SMBC of five Pratt & Whitney engines, Viva Aerobus’ first use of the Itasca product.

JPMorgan on its first-of-a-kind Export-Import Bank of the United States-supported pre-delivery payment (PDP) financing of three 737-8 aircraft for SunExpress.

Governments in connection with the negotiation of the concessions of the 1,500km Benin-Niger sections of the Rail African Rail Loop (€3bn).

Macquarie on a term loan financing for a UK cruise company for the acquisition of five cruise ships, financing of certain lease finance payments in respect of several cruise ships, and for general working capital purposes.

Société Générale on the US$850m financing of six new dual-fueled LNG containerships for Mediterranean Shipping Company on a syndicated basis with the support of a guarantee provided by The Korean Export-Import Bank.

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Our industry-focused team cuts through the complexity, working from our offices across Europe, the United States, the Middle East, and Asia to deliver commercial solutions wherever your business takes you.

Explore our capabilities

Aviation Finance

Rail Finance

Shipping Finance

Plant and Equipment Financing

Hear from our clients and industry leaders

An exceptional quality of service.

They have an in-depth team with significant experience in the aviation sector.

Key contacts

Representative experience

Other ways we can help you

Aviation

Capital Markets

Banking and Loan Finance

Transportation

Restructuring and Special Situations

Aerospace and Defense

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