Walkers

Banking & Finance

Donna has over 20 years' experience in aviation finance and is part of our Global Asset Finance team, based in London.

Donna specialises in Irish law leasing and financing of transportation (notably aviation) assets, the establishment of funds-based aviation platforms as well as debt capital markets transactions and related mergers and acquisitions.

In 2021 she was awarded the Women In Business Law Awards – European Aviation Lawyer of the Year as well as Irish law Legal Advisor of the Year at the Women In Finance Awards.

Before joining Walkers in 2023, Donna was a partner and head of European aviation with another leading law firm. Before that, she was a partner in the asset finance team at Simmons & Simmons in London.

She was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2001 before joining Freshfields, going on to work in-house at Airbus at their Toulouse headquarters, and then practising with Clifford Chance in London.

Donna is a member of the Law Society of Ireland,  The Aviation Club UK,  100 Women in Finance and the International Society of Transport and Aircraft Trading.

Admitted in:

Ireland England and Wales (not practising)

Education:

Sheffield Hallam University, LLB (Hons) City University London, Post Graduate Diploma in Law Inns of Court School of Law, London, Bar Vocation Course Qualifying Lawyers Transfer Scheme