Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Client SatisfactionPillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP has a strong aircraft finance team based in Tokyo that advises major Japanese clients on JOL and JOLCA transactions, portfolio sales and financings, cross-border leasing arrangements, procurement of aircraft and engines, and restructurings, among other matters. Practice head Olivia Matsushita counts Japanese and international institutions, leasing companies, investors, and airlines as clients.
Testimonials
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- 'Olivia Matsushita has supreme bilingual capability as well as a well-trained ability to listen to what her clients try to say.'
- 'Olivia is so good at listening, even in Japanese conversations in which her bilingual capability shines. It is quite rare for non-Japanese speakers to write in Japanese the way the native Japanese do.'
‘Their Tokyo office aviation team is led by a native English speaker and an almost-native Japanese speaker. Japanese clients who are usually not fluent English speakers can fully rely on the partner expecting no negative influence from the language barrier and can discuss with and instruct her in Japanese.'
‘A very responsive team.'
Key clients
- Bank of Yokohama
- BOT Lease
- Development Bank of Japan
- Chishima Real Estate
- Clover Aviation Capital
- FPG Amentum
- FPG Trust
- Hyakugo Bank
- iStrings Aviation Capital
- JA Mitsui Leasing
- Mitsubishi HC Capital
- Mizuho Leasing
- MUFG Bank, Ltd
- NTT TC Leasing Co., Ltd.
- Showa Leasing
- Sumitomo Corporation
- SMBC Aviation Capital
- Sumitomo Mitsui Finance and Leasing (SMFL)
- Tokyo Century Corporation
- Tokyo Star Bank
- Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, Inc. and Atlas Air, Inc.
Work highlights
- Advised Tokyo Century Corporation on the JOLCO financing of one Airbus A350-900 aircraft by a major European financial institution, for Air France, with structural features to address sustainability values and KPIs for CO2 emissions reductions.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Olivia Matsushita