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Please click here for our new brochure, A Practical Guide to Starting an Airline Business in the UK.
The combined expertise of both our aviation and commercial lawyers provides our aerospace industry clients with a unique collaborative service. We have an understanding of the technical and operational issues of our clients and the practical effects of the legal advice that we provide. Our commercial lawyers bring to bear their own corporate and commercial experience gained from a comprehensive client base dealing with many relevant issues and laws. Several of our lawyers also have a knowledge and understanding, gained from working and living abroad, of many varied cultural and regional differences that are so important to doing business internationally.
Our aerospace business practice encompasses the full range of transactional and regulatory issues affecting airlines, corporate aircraft owners and other general aviation operators both domestically and internationally. We advise on aircraft sale, purchase, lease, management and finance transactions.
We can also provide expert advice on airline operational issues including fleet acquisition, engineering and operational management, and safety and security through Gates Aviation Consulting LLP.
We can advise and assist on such matters as:
- Sale and purchase agreements.
- Loan agreements and security documents.
- Securitisation of receivables.
- Corporate and financial structures; tax efficiency (including offshore structuring).
- Enforcement of creditors rights/insolvency related issues.
- Contractual advice, interpretation and drafting in respect of aircraft, crew; ground handling, MRO of aircraft and engines; fleet management.
- Regulatory advice on air services agreement issues.
- Employment and human resources.
- Start-up operations.
- Passenger ticketing and General Conditions of Carriage.
- EU regulations.
- Code shares; marketing agreements, joint ventures and other commercial contracts.
- Compliance.
- Frequent flyer schemes and CRS.
- Travel law; agency and commission arrangements.
- Civil Aviation regulations including safety, dangerous goods handling, air traffic control; airspace and airport management.
- Health and Safety.
- Data protection.
- Judicial review.
- Intellectual property - know-how and trade mark protection/IT.
- Insurance, liability and risk management.
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