Aviation

This complex industry ranges from aviation and aerospace service companies to airlines, charter companies, private operators, manufacturers, aircraft leasing companies and other financial institutions, airports, and governmental agencies.

It’s an industry where you want specialists with aviation expertise, access to an experienced multijurisdictional team, and experts on the ground in the places you do business.

Squared lawyers know the aviation industry. Working together, you get all the skills our lawyers have developed representing leading airlines, manufacturers, aviation service providers, airport developers, lessors, financiers, insurers and regulatory bodies. So wherever you fit within the aviation industry, Squared can help.

OUR EXPERTISE INCLUDES

• Asset-based financing
• Joint ventures and mergers and acquisitions
• Manufacturing, selling, purchasing and leasing aircraft and equipment
• Local and international regulatory regimes and treaties
• Navigation issues
• Insurance and risk management
• Litigation and dispute resolution
• Commercial and government contracts
• Intellectual property
• Aviation claims
• Disaster preparation and response (crisis management)

We also have a truly global footprint which allows our lawyers to serve clients wherever they may need us.

EXPERIENCE

• World-leading aerospace company: 
  Acting for a world-leading aerospace company in connection with various American matters.
  
• City of San Jose: 
  Handling the expansion of San Jose’s Norman Mineta Airport, which involved the construction of a second runway and new terminals.
  
• Epic Aviation: 
  Advising with respect to the distribution and sale of aviation fuel and jet fuel to clients across Canada including the Department of National Defence.
  
• Industry Canada: 
  Advising with respect to the Government of Canada’s role as one of the lenders involved in Air Canada’s arrangements to raise CA$1.02 billion in additional liquidity through a series of financings and other transactions.
  
• Major airline: 
  Overseeing the environmental audit of a major airline’s operations at all the major US airports it serves.

AWARDS AND ACCOLADES

• Chambers USA, Nationwide: Transportation: Aviation, Chambers and Partners, 2021
• Legal 500 USA, Transport: Aviation, The Legal 500, 2020