Expertise

Jim’s primary areas of practice include banking, leasing, project and asset finance, with particular emphasis on the aviation sector – including aircraft acquisition and disposal and the start up and running of airlines and airports, principally internationally but with a significant Middle Eastern emphasis

Special Distinctions

• He received the London Business School Corporate Finance Diploma in 1984
• He is a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society

Career

• On leaving School, Jim won a cadetship at the Royal Air Force College, Cranwell, where he flew.
• Later he studied law. He was the commercial finance lawyer at Lombard North Central PLC
• Head of legal at Lloyds Leasing Ltd, where he was engaged in tax based leasing of aircraft and other assets.
• Managing Partner of Beaumont and Son from 1990 – 2002

Education

• Solicitor, admitted in 1971

Professional Affiliations

• Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society

Publications

• Contributor to Advice to governments on the development of national airlines and airports
• Contributor to Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents, Equipment Leasing Volume, Butterworths 2005 – 2011
• Contributor to Security Interests in Mobile Equipment – Davies, Iwan (Ed.), Ashgate, 2002.
• Contributor to Practical Financial Management, Gee Publishing, 1998.
• Contributor to Leasing Handbook – Soper, D et al (Eds.), McGraw Hill, 1993.

Public Speaking

• Frequent Chair of conferences particularly the Doha aviation summit and air finance conferences.