Durante más de medio siglo, Cleary Gottlieb ha estado a la vanguardia en el derecho de aviación—desde que representamos a la primera aerolínea Estadounidense en ofrecer vuelos trasatlánticos hasta nuestra intervención en la actual reestructuración y consolidación de la industria. A pesar de que la aviación es una actividad que puede ser volátil, hemos mantenido un compromiso constante de proporcionar servicios legales de la más alta calidad en la industria lo que nos ha conducido a obtener la confianza de clientes en casi 20 países.
Los abogados de nuestras diversas áreas de práctica trabajan conjuntamente para asesorar a nuestros clientes del sector de aviación en una variedad de temas, incluyendo: privatizaciones de aerolíneas y aeropuertos; financiación y adquisición de aeronaves; estructuración de planes de opciones a empleados; fusiones y adquisiciones; asesoría legal en temas de competencia, incluyendo investigaciones y decisiones relativas a prácticas restrictivas de la libre competencia; ofertas públicas de acciones u obligaciones; acceso “open skies”; acuerdos de transferencia de tecnología; disputas y negociaciones laborales; contenciosos y arbitraje; quiebras y reestructuraciones.
Entre los asuntos más importantes de esta práctica se incluyen:
- Counsel in $25 billion in offerings by participants in the airline industry segment since the late 1990s.
- We have been involved in 14 airline restructurings and bankruptcies worldwide.
- Counsel to Citigroup and Morgan Stanley as underwriters in the $187 million SEC-registered IPO of Spirit Airlines.
- Counsel to Highstar Capital in its acquisition of a 25 percent stake in London City Airport from Global Infrastructure Partners.
- Counsel to the Government of Gabon and the Islamic Development Bank in connection with the structuring of a public-private partnership for the construction of the new Libreville international airport.
- Counsel in the IPO of Panamanian airline Copa, one of the first Panamanian companies to be listed on the NYSE, and in the subsequent SEC-registered follow-on offerings.
- Counsel to Continental Airlines in a broad range of corporate and financing activities, including the issuance of equity and secured and unsecured debt securities, the renegotiation of various loan agreements, litigations, e-commerce, executive compensation and corporate governance matters.
- Counsel to Finmeccanica and its subsidiaries Alenia Aeronautica and Alenia Aermacchi in hi-tech industrial partnerships in the aerospace sector with Mubadala Development Company, including the creation of a joint venture in the UAE to construct and operate a final assembly line for the advance lead-in fighter trainer M-346.
- Counsel to American Express in its $1 billion purchase of Delta Skymiles from Delta Airlines through the multiyear extension of its Co-brand Credit Card partnerships with Delta.
- Counsel to Delta Master Executive Council of the Air Line Pilot Association in the $3 billion combination of Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines.
- Counsel to Lighthouse Holdings in its $480 million acquisition of American Beacon Advisors from AMR Corporation, the parent of American Airlines.
- Counsel to Aeroports de Paris in its €1.3 billion IPO.