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Brett Seifarth focuses his practice on aviation finance. He has significant experience advising representing manufacturers, commercial banks, operating lessors, equity participants, finance companies, private equity funds, hedge funds, issuers, servicers, and other investors in a wide variety of domestic and cross-border transactions involving commercial and business aircraft.

Brett counsels clients on transactions such as portfolio acquisitions and divestitures, operating leases, leveraged leases, sale-leasebacks, secured debt and back-leveraged financings, predelivery payment financings, residual value and credit support agreements, and asset-backed securitizations. He also has experience advising lessors and creditors on various restructuring matters, including in airline bankruptcies. He also advises clients, including high-net-worth individuals, on aviation-related regulatory compliance and enforcement matters.

More Legal and Business Bylines From Brett J. Seifarth

Protecting the Financer of the Conversion of a Passenger Aircraft to a Freighter - (Posted On Tuesday, September 13, 2022)
BIS Identifies First Foreign-Produced Commercial Aircraft Exported to Russia in Apparent Violation of US Export Controls - (Posted On Wednesday, August 03, 2022)
BIS Takes Enforcement Action Against Russian Airlines — but not Lessors or Financers — For Flights to or Within Russia - (Posted On Friday, April 08, 2022)
BIS Grants Authorization of Aircraft to Leave Russia and Updates List of Aircraft Operating in or to Russia in Violation of Export Controls - (Posted On Thursday, March 31, 2022)
Commerce Department Identification of Aircraft Exported to Russia in Violation of Export Controls Offers Guidance on Whether the Continued Leasing or Finance of Aircraft in Russia Violates US Law - (Posted On Monday, March 21, 2022)
Avoiding Flight Schedule Disruption When Replacing the Owner Trustee of a Leased Aircraft Registered in the United States - (Posted On Thursday, September 09, 2021)
What a Lessor and Secured Lender Should Expect From an Opinion Letter of Local Counsel in a Cross-Border Lease - (Posted On Monday, June 21, 2021)
Buyer Due Diligence in Acquisitions of Leased Aircraft: Lease Document Review and Seller and Lessee Representations - (Posted On Thursday, May 20, 2021)
Structuring and Practice for Aircraft Leases to Prevent Lease Payments From Being Clawed Back in a Lessee Bankruptcy - (Posted On Friday, April 09, 2021)
The Desirability of Registering a New International Interest When Extending the Term of a Lease - (Posted On Friday, March 12, 2021)

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Aviation Industry and COVID-19

Katten is a National Law Review Go-To Thought Leader for the firm’s thought leadership on the Coronavirus pandemic's impact on the aviation industry, specifically the government’s ongoing operation support for the airlines and aviation finance and leases. Katten’s thought leadership in aviation addresses leases and financing and the insurance of aircraft assets during bankruptcies, as well as government regulation and oversight of the aviation industry including the Treasury Department’s payroll support for airline workers and special payments earmarked for the airline industry under the CARES Act. The following Katten attorney authors were notable aviation law contributors in 2020: Lisa A. Clark, Tom Healey, Stewart B. Herman, Timothy J. Lynes, Brett J. Seifarth, and Miran Vila.