About

For over five years, Orla Gillen has been an important legal voice in 30-year-old aviation company, AWAS, headquartered in Dublin. With specialist industry knowledge in legal and business terms, Gillen is particularly skilled in structured finance and takes an active role in corporate governance management. Gillen’s tenure at AWAS has been marked with sustained growth and profitability and her recent work highlights include the company’s landmark $4bn sale of a 90-aircraft portfolio to the Macquarie Group in 2015. Gillen was previously legal counsel at global aircraft leasing company, Genesis Lease.