Aviation Finance & Leasing
United States
11 February 2025
A leading firm in the defense of cost of insurance rate litigation, Milbank boasts a successful track record in contractual disputes. Its diverse complex commercial litigation practice sees the New York-based team represent corporations, institutions and individuals. Scott Edelman focuses his practice on the entertainment industry and excels in music-related disputes, while Stacey Rappaport specializes in cases related to financial transactions. Representing clients in federal and state courts, Atara Miller is active in commercial and bankruptcy litigation. David Gelfand also represents financial institutions and corporations in bankruptcy cases, as well as class actions and securities litigation. With a clientele of both companies and individuals, Jed Schwartz‘s practice ranges from shareholder disputes to regulatory investigations.
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Key clients
- Brighthouse Financial, Inc.
- Broadcast Music, Inc.
- Carlyle Aviation Partners
- Charlesbank Capital Partners
- ChemImage Corporation
- Deloitte & Touche
- Lincoln National Corporation
- Rabobank
- Susquehanna International Group
- Taconic Capital
Work highlights
Represented Lincoln National Corporation and The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company in two cost of insurance rate class action litigations in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Advised ChemImage Corporation in connection with a litigation against Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiary Ethicon, including in a confidential mediation, stemming from Defendants bad faith breach and termination of the research, marketing, and licensing agreement between the parties, and their failure to pay the contractually negotiated amounts due for termination without cause.
Represented BMI against an attempt by the U.S. broadcast radio industry to bring a joint rate court proceeding against BMI and its competitor the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP).
Lawyers
Practice head
Alexander Lees; George Canellos
Other key lawyers
Scott Edelman; Stacey Rappaport; Atara Miller; David Gelfand; Jed Schwartz; Katherine Kelly Fell; Andrew Porter