Aircraft Financing, 3rd Edition

Author: Andrew Littlejohns; Stephen McGairl
Publisher: Euromoney Institutional Investor
ISBN: 9781855645547
Published In: May 1998
Format: Paperback , 500 pages
Jurisdiction: International ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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Edited by a team of leading air finance lawyers with contributions from other market specialists, this edition of our best-selling book has 23 detailed chapters, divided into five distinct sections: the airlines' needs; financing methods; country and regional markets; credit and aircraft values; legal and insurance issues. Interest areas: aircraft finance, insurance, documentation, aviation, credit risk, emerging markets.

Part I: The airlines' needs
1 Industry financing requirements approaching the 21st century
2 Source of finance
Part II: Financing methods
3 Commercial bank lending
4 Export credit agency support
5 Operating leasing
6 Aircraft securitisation
7 A lessee's guide to structuring cross-border aircraft leases
PART III Country and regional markets
8 US aircraft leasing
9 UK Leasing
10 Leasing in other European countries
11 The Japanese leasing market
12 The Asian perspective
13 Aircraft financing in Russia
14 Financing national airlines in developing countries
PART IV: Credit and aircraft values
15 Assessing an airline's credit: the rating agency perspective
16 Assessing an airline's credit: the lender's perspective
17 Aircraft as investments
18 What to expect from manufactures' residual value support
PART V Legal and insurance issues
19 Legal issues in aircraft finance
20 Insurance considerations
21 Aircraft repossession insurance
22 The regulatory framework for airline operations
23 International conventions affecting aircraft financing transactions
Appendices - The Geneva Convention on the International Recognition of Rights in Aircraft; The Chicago Convention on International Civil Aviation; The Rome Convention on Precautionary Arrest; Annex IV to the Arrangements on Guidelines for Officially Supported Export Credits (LASU)
Glossary

Andrew Littlejohns is a partner in Freshfields' Asset Finance Group in London. He joined Freshfields in 1983, and has specialised since then in aircraft finance. He became a partner in 1987. Stephen McGairl is a partner of Freshfields with over 20 years experience of international aircraft transactions. He has worked in the London, Paris and Moscow offices of the firm. He is a member of the Study Group of Unidroit which has developed the draft Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment.