White & Case LLP provides guidance to major airlines, lenders, operating lessors and export credit agencies on various aviation asset finance deals, including aircraft acquisitions, debt restructuring, and the return to service of repossessed aircraft. The practice also focuses on innovative financing mechanisms, such as JOLCO structures and supports both conventional and Sharia-compliant financing. In the maritime finance space, the team provides expertise in secured financing and sale and purchase transactions. Practice head Mark Moody offers extensive experience in transportation finance, particularly in aircraft financing structures, operating leases, capital markets matters, and Islamic finance. Justin Benson brings ‘a reassuring calmness and pragmatism’ to aviation financing, leasing, and restructuring matters, while James M. Turner advises on facility structuring, sale transactions, and capital markets mandates in both the aviation and maritime sectors.
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‘Total client focus. The team goes out of their way to ensure clients are super satisfied.’
‘Small but technically excellent team which is proactive and responsive in driving forward transactions.’
‘Justin Benson brings a reassuring calmness and pragmatism. David Wright is hard-working and masters the detail.’
'A true market leader! Mark Moody is focused and driven.'
'It's an amazing, exceptional team.'
'Very responsible and analytical.'
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Practice head
Mark Moody
Other key lawyers
Justin Benson; James M. Turner; David Wright