Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP’s aviation finance offering includes debt financing, portfolio sales, and aircraft procurement. Alongside this, the wider asset finance team has experience in Islamic and Export Credit Agency-supported financings, demonstrating the firm’s strong cross-border practice. In New York, team lead Mark Lessard has extensive experience handling capital market transactions and multi-jurisdictional investments in the aviation space. Melissa Jones-Prus is another notable name in the New York team, frequently handling a wide range of aircraft-backed debt and equity transactions for lessors, asset managers, and airlines, as well as having experience advising in insolvency proceedings, including bankruptcies. Further strengthening the New York practice, Pat Reisinger is recommended for his work in asset-backed financing, portfolio sales, and wider aviation sales. Richard Evans, based in Los Angeles, is dual-qualified in California and England & Wales and has recently been working on a range of asset-backed securitization transactions.