ABNR Counsellors at Law advises clients across the full range of financing, leasing, and aviation-related projects, with the firm’s more recent focus being in advising lessors, manufacturers, and related vendors on major restructuring and insolvency mandates in the aviation sector. Drawing on the firm’s strengths across corporate, finance, and disputes, the team is well-placed to advise its predominantly lessor and financing clients on the full range of their aviation-related work. The highly experienced Emir Nurmansyah, whose work cuts across financing, lease agreements, and insolvency-related matters, leads on the firm’s work in this space. He works alongside foreign counsel Gustaaf Reerink, whose broad practice is deployed to handle aviation issues on behalf of international firms; and Nurdin Adiwibowo, who uses his financial expertise to assist his aviation clients on financing and sale transactions. Senior associate Reynard Kevin Munando is also a key contact for aviation work.

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Key clients

  • Airbus SAS
  • Avolon Aerospace
  • Standard Chartered Bank
  • Macquarie AirFinance
  • China Merchants Bank Leasing Co., Ltd
  • Rockwell Collins Inc.
  • B/e Aerospace (UK) Limited
  • Castlelake
  • Airbus Atlantic
  • Air Lease Corporation

Work highlights

  • Represented numerous aircraft and engine lessors, manufacturers, vendors and other key creditors in the USD 9.9-billion court-sanctioned debt restructuring of PT Garuda Indonesia (Persero) Tbk.
  • Advised BNP Paribas Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank and Societe Generale on their financing to the Indonesian government for the purchase of six Rafale fighter jets.
  • Representing 6 aircraft lessors for the submission of claims against Indonesian airline PT Sriwijaya Air, which is currently undergoing a USD 530-million debt restructuring.

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Practice head

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Emir Nurmansyah

Other key lawyers

Gustaaf Reerink, Nurdin Adiwibowo, Reynard Kevin Munando