Depuis près d’un demi siècle, Cleary Gottlieb a toujours été à la pointe du droit de l’aviation – depuis notre représentation de la compagnie américaine pionnière dans le transport transocéanique de personnes et de marchandises jusqu’à notre rôle dans la consolidation et la restructuration actuelle de cette industrie. L’aviation est un secteur versatile, mais notre engagement indéfectible pour toujours offrir une représentation de qualité nous a permis d’étendre notre activité pour inclure des clients basés dans près de 20 pays.
Nos avocats spécialisés dans les divers domaines du droit travaillent en coopération pour conseiller nos clients sur une variété de questions à travers le monde, notamment : privatisations de compagnies aériennes et d’aéroports publics; achats et financement d’appareils; mise en place de stock options; fusions et acquisitions; conseils en droit de la concurrence lors de transactions et en rapport avec des allégations de pratiques anticoncurrentielles; émissions d’obligations et de titres de capital; transactions sécurisées; introductions en bourse; négociation d’alliances entre compagnies; renforcement de l’accès international aux aéroports; accords de transfert de technologie; négociations et litiges relatifs au droit du travail; contentieux et arbitrages ; faillite et restructuration.
Practice highlights include:
- 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.