Nixon Peabody LLP

Nixon Peabody LLP has longstanding experience in representing airplane and helicopter manufacturers, aircraft component manufacturers, and aircraft and equipment sales, leasing, and financing companies. The client list also comprises domestic and international airlines, including cargo airlines and freight forwarders, airports, fixed base operators, parachuting and balloon operators, and aviation maintenance and repair facilities. The team is consistently sought out to act in National Transportation Safety Board, Federal Aviation Administration, and foreign accident investigations. It also assists with regulatory matters and the establishment of risk-management procedures that avoid litigation. From the firm’s New York and Long Island offices, Joseph Ortego routinely handles aviation industry-related litigation, regulatory and compliance issues, while in San Francisco, Brian Dalrymple represents corporations, airlines, type certificate holders, drone manufacturers, and airports in defense-side class actions. The practice additionally includes Rochester-based Tracey Scarpello, who assists with aviation-related business disputes; Erik Goergen, an expert in commercial litigation involving aviation and product liability issues, and Santo Borruso in Long Island, who is experienced in defending aviation industry-related product liability cases that allege defects in manufacturing, design and failure to warn.