robert wray PLLC (RW) has extensive experience in a wide array of complex and innovative aircraft financing structures, including finance and operating leases, secured loans, French, Italian and Irish tax-advantaged leases, conditional sale agreements, SOAR loans, subordinated loans, sovereign risk and leveraged leases. These transactions have utilized a variety of funding mechanisms, such as Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) guaranteed or direct loans, joint export credit agency financing, pre-delivery payments financing and capital markets offerings.

RW attorneys have successfully negotiated, documented and closed over US $5 billion in asset- backed financing transactions for the acquisition of Boeing, Cessna, Gulfstream, Hawker, Raytheon and Sikorsky aircraft, spare engines and related equipment for operators located in the following countries:

Brazil
Canada
Costa Rica
Czech Republic
Egypt
El Salvador
Ethiopia
Indonesia
Japan
Mexico
Morocco
Romania
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Singapore
Turkey
Vietnam

RW represented Ex-Im Bank in the guaranteed financings of five B777 aircraft for Ethiopian Airlines Enterprise and four B777 aircraft for TAM Linhas Aéreas S.A., which were awarded “2010 African Aircraft Debt Deal of the Year” by Jane’s Transport Finance and “2008 Latin America Deal of the Year” by Airfinance Journal, respectively. Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business has noted that industry professionals rank RW as “one of the preeminent aviation finance groups in Washington D.C.”