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Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP has a strong aircraft finance team based in Tokyo that advises major Japanese clients on JOL and JOLCA transactions, portfolio sales and financings, cross-border leasing arrangements, procurement of aircraft and engines, and restructurings, among other matters. Practice head Olivia Matsushita counts Japanese and international institutions, leasing companies, investors, and airlines as clients.
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  • 'Olivia Matsushita has supreme bilingual capability as well as a well-trained ability to listen to what her clients try to say.'
  • 'Olivia is so good at listening, even in Japanese conversations in which her bilingual capability shines. It is quite rare for non-Japanese speakers to write in Japanese the way the native Japanese do.'

Key clients

  • Bank of Yokohama
  • BOT Lease

Work highlights

Advised Tokyo Century Corporation on the JOLCO financing of one Airbus A350-900 aircraft by a major European financial institution, for Air France, with structural features to address sustainability values and KPIs for CO2 emissions reductions.