Baker McKenzie LLP

Baker McKenzie LLP‘s ’aviation team is top notch’. The practice routinely assists major aviation sector clients with regulatory matters, commercial issues, investigations, and enforcement proceedings. The team additionally advises on aviation-related licensing, transactions, taxation, and environmental reviews. The group is notably active in restructuring work, investments in air carriers, financings involving pledges of slots, routes, and gates, and appellate litigation. It also comprises experts in new aviation technologies, such as drones, electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft, smart cities, digitization, and advanced air mobility. Chairing the global aviation group from DC, Jennifer Trock also leads the firm’s unmanned aircraft systems focus team. Over in New York, the track record of Clyde (Skip) Rankin III includes advising a large international airline (along with its airline partners) on the redevelopment and financing of a major international airport terminal.