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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

Structuring a PDP Loan to Protect the Lender From an Airline Bankruptcy - (Posted On Friday, February 19, 2021)
Protecting a Lessor Against the Recharacterization in Bankruptcy of a Full Payout Aircraft Lease as a Disguised Security Agreement - (Posted On Monday, January 11, 2021)
ADS-B OUT Compliance as Part of Lease Redelivery Conditions - (Posted On Wednesday, November 25, 2020)
Maximizing Returns Through Effective Management of Engine Performance Restoration: Five Cases - (Posted On Thursday, October 01, 2020)
Use of Residual-Value Insurance to Support Debt Repayment in Leveraged Aircraft Leases - (Posted On Friday, August 14, 2020)
Toward a Rational Debt-Equity Framework in Leveraged Aircraft Leases - (Posted On Thursday, July 09, 2020)
Aircraft Sale Leasebacks in a Disrupted Market: Traditional and New Considerations for Lessors - (Posted On Thursday, May 21, 2020)
Passenger Airlines and US Treasury Department Reach Agreement on CARES Act Payroll Support Program - (Posted On Friday, April 17, 2020)
COVID-19 Update: US Senate Passes $61 Billion Relief Package for Aviation Industry - (Posted On Thursday, March 26, 2020)
COVID-19 Update: A Planning Guide for Aircraft Lessors - (Posted On Monday, March 23, 2020)

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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.