• Creation of form documentation used by several of the largest equipment leasing and finance companies in the United States (as rated by The Monitor 100) for transactions of all sizes and types, including for true leases, non-true leases, equipment financings, and syndications.
• Preparation of fifty-state surveys on a variety of relevant topics, including licensing, usury, motor vehicle titling, and landlord lien issues.
• Preparation of comprehensive internal policies and analyses covering lien perfection, lessor liability, insurance and corporate verification.
• Assisting multiple bank and bank subsidiaries in connection with their establishment of policies and procedures when purchasing transactions involving electronic signatures and, in some instances, electronic chattel paper.
• Auditing client portfolios and procedures.
• Providing in-house seminars for operations and other personnel.

Aircraft

• Representation of a U.S. aircraft lessor in multiple transactions in which the lessor leased multiple Boeing 737 aircraft to airlines located in Latin America (including Mexican, Brazilian, Bolivian, and Ecuadorian airlines), Europe (including Belgian, Irish, Swedish, Danish and Romanian airlines), the Middle East and Africa (including Emirati and Tunisian airlines), the former USSR (including a Georgian airline), Asia and Pacific (including Indonesian, Mongolian, and Indian airlines) and North America (including a Canadian airline)
• Representation of Wings Capital Partners on the acquisition and finance of nine commercial jet aircraft subject to operating leases and registered in several different jurisdictions and on their initial $200 million secured loan facility with Wells Fargo Bank, NA to fund the acquisition of a portfolio of mid-life narrow body aircraft.
• Representation of Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social in providing separate export credit facilities for the purchase of Embraer aircraft by Flight Options LLC and Taca International Airlines, S.A.
• Representation of The Huntington National Bank, as administrative agent, in connection with a $1 billion revolving loan facility secured by helicopters and related leases in multiple jurisdictions and certain other assets for The Milestone Aviation Group Limited, financed by a syndicate of 16 lenders.
• Representation of Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch, as agent, in connection with a series of debt facilities for The Milestone Aviation Group Limited totaling $400 million, including a multiple drawing term loan facility secured by helicopters and related leases and certain other assets, including a 7 lender syndicated term facility, generally regarded as the first syndicated portfolio financing for a helicopter leasing company.
• Representation of American Airlines in numerous aircraft leveraged lease financings.

Vessels

• Representation of syndicates of lenders in connection with the refinancing of the entire fleet of a large barge and towboat operator operating on the Mississippi Rivers and adjacent canals and waterways.
• Representation of multiple financial institution lessors in connection with numerous charter agreements involving fleets and individual vessels.
• Representation of lenders both on large capital and middle market loans secured by offshore vessels and inland barges and pushboats, including vessels under construction.
• Serving as US domestic counsel in connection with loans secured by foreign flagged vessels.

Vehicles

• Representation of a bank subsidiary in connection with a  $20 million financing of vehicles subject to a complex operating and fleet management structure used by the borrower and unaffiliated third parties, raising unique collateral issues.
• Representation of a bank in connection with the $50 million financing of tractor trailers as part of the acquisition of the borrower by an operating and investment company, and representation of the bank in connection with the subsequent syndication of portions of such transaction to multiple investors.
• Representation of a bank subsidiary in connection with multiple acquisitions of beneficial ownership interests in titling trusts involved with TRAC and Split TRAC leases, including transactions acquired by the assignor through vendor programs.
• Representation of multiple banks and bank subsidiaries in connection with leases or financings provided to various transportation companies, many of which sublease or lease the vehicles to unaffiliated third parties, including owner operators.

Railcars

• Representation of an independent finance company in connection with its sale of a portfolio of railcars and the associated leases in transactions worth approximately $200 million.
• Representation of a bank subsidiary in connection with a swap of railcar leases amongst multiple financial institutions with the same lessee.
• Representation of the equipment finance divisions of multiple banks in transactions in which the divisions sold their beneficial interests, as owner participants, in leveraged lease transactions involving railcars and aircraft.
• Representation of a bank subsidiary in connection with financings secured by railcars.

• Representation of the equipment finance subsidiaries of multiple banks in connection with the sale-leaseback transactions of solar generation facilities in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and Tennessee.
• Representation of the lender in connection with a construction-to-term loan facility for a $62.5 million landfill-gas-to-energy facility in California, and the subsequent sale by such lender of a participation interest in the financing.
• Serving as U.S. counsel in connection with multiple financing transactions in Latin America, including a $30 million construction to term loan financing involving two cold reserve power plants capable of producing approximately sixty megawatts of electricity, and an $11 million financing of a power plant.
• Representation of the lender in connection with non-recourse construction-to-term loan project financing for a $15 million natural-gas-fired power plant in Ontario, Canada designed to power a greenhouse for a cannabis facility.
• Representation of a client on leveraged lease financing of a US subsidiary of a German semiconductor company and the subsequent buy-out of secured lending syndicate interest in financed equipment.

• Representation of multiple banks and bank subsidiaries in connection with the acquisition of equipment leases and financings with a value of over $1 billion, including review and diligence of underlying leases or loans being assigned and negotiation of assignment documents.
• Representation of equipment leasing and finance company in connection with its acquisition of a lease of equipment involving ongoing maintenance, warranty and other obligations of the original lessor/assignor that raised “bundling”, true sale and other issues.
• Representation of a bank subsidiary in connection with a synthetic lease of earthmoving, construction and material handling equipment totaling in excess of $20 million.
• Representation of a bank subsidiary in connection with its acquisition of a portfolio of over $100 million of equipment leases, installment sales contracts and other equipment financings.
• Representation of a bank in connection with its establishment of vendor programs.
• Representation of a captive finance company in connection with a $50 million financing of frac pumps and trailers.
• Representation of a bank subsidiary in connection with $25 million lease of containers, and the subsequent syndication of a portion of the transaction.
• Representation of multiple banks and bank subsidiaries in connection with the financing of manufacturing plants, including various progress payment and construction related issues.