robert wray PLLC (RW) attorneys have assisted clients in transactions involving the financing of over 200 commercial and business jet aircraft valued at more than US $9 billion. Clients include the Export-Import Bank of the United States, commercial banks as lenders and arrangers, airlines, lessors, lessees, sellers and purchasers.
The firm has extensive experience in a wide array of complex and innovative aircraft finance structures involving finance and operating leases, secured loans, leveraged and single investor leases and Japanese, French and Irish tax advantaged leases utilizing a variety of funding mechanisms, including securitized U.S. Ex-Im Bank guaranty financing.
Since the firm's formation in 2003, RW attorneys have assisted in the negotiation and documentation of approximately US $5 billion in asset-based finance transactions for the acquisition of Boeing, Gulfstream, Sikorsky and Raytheon aircraft in structures which include conditional sale arrangements, tax advantaged leases as well as sovereign risk.