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Justine L. Chilvers

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+1 (212) 407 7757 jchilvers@vedderprice.com View profile

Work Department

Global Transportation Finance

Position

Shareholder

Career

Ms. Chilvers concentrates her practice in corporate finance, with a special focus on aviation, equipment and commercial bank finance. She has advised clients on a wide range of cross-border and domestic aircraft, rail and corporate finance transactions. Her experience includes representing financial institutions, lessors and borrowers in back-leveraged and operating lease portfolio facilities, cross-border mortgage financings, revolving credit warehouse facilities, securitizations and capital markets offerings, asset purchase agreements and export credit agency-supported financings as well as fleet and portfolio financings.

While in law school, she worked for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York under the Honorable Magistrate Judge Michael H. Dolinger, and for the Commercial Litigation unit of the New York City Law Department.

Ms. Chilvers is the co-founder of City Readers, Inc., a New York not-for-profit, dedicated to promoting literary appreciation and raising funds for books for public and charter school students in New York City. She is also the founder of The Right Pick, a published blog on the New York restaurant and nightlife scene. She holds dual citizenship in the United Kingdom and the United States and is fluent in French.

Languages

French

Memberships

  • Member, American Bar Association
  • Member, New York State Bar Association
  • Member, New York City Bar Association

Education

  • Fordham University School of Law, J.D., 2013
  • University of Pennsylvania, 2008, magna cum laude

Lawyer Rankings

United States > Transport > Aviation and air travel: finance

(Next Generation Partners)

Justine Chilvers–Vedder Price

Housing ‘one of the premier aviation finance legal practices’, Vedder Price‘s client base ranges from major airlines, export credit agencies, operating lessors and asset managers to investment funds, finance companies, and manufacturers and manufacturer finance companies. The team handles the full gamut of aircraft finance deals, with its expertise covering large-value M&A deals, aircraft-related asset-backed securities, and portfolio debt financings. It also assists with structured multi-aircraft financings in the capital markets, sale and leaseback deals, individual aircraft sales, and maintenance, repair and overhaul agreements. In Chicago, Geoffrey Kass is a specialist in aviation sector-related structured financings; Adam Beringer focuses on commercial aircraft finance; Mark Ditto represents operating lessors, commercial banks, finance companies, private equity firms and hedge funds in commercial aircraft and high-value equipment transactions; and Michael Draz is another key aviation finance practitioner. Over in New York, Jeffrey Veber is well known for his work with EXIM Bank on cross-border aircraft leasings; Cameron Gee is ‘one of the best aviation partners around‘; and Justine Chilvers advises on an array of cross-border and domestic aircraft finance transactions. Another key adviser is aircraft finance transaction expert Raviv Surpin in Los Angeles.

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