半个多世纪以来，佳利律师事务所一直站在航空法律的前沿——从代表作为跨洋航空旅行及运输的先锋的美国航空公司，到参与本行业最近的整合及重组。航空业或许变幻莫测，但我们对高质量服务的不懈追求使本所业务不断拓展，客户遍及近20个国家。

本所各执业领域的律师紧密合作，为航空业客户就全球范围内的多种事务提供咨询，事务包括：国有航空公司及机场民营化、飞机及资本购买及融资、股票期权设计、兼并及收购、就交易及被指控削弱竞争的行为提供反垄断/竞争法咨询、募股及发债、担保交易、首次公开发行、商谈公司联盟、增加机场的国际开放、技术转让安排、劳工商谈及纠纷、诉讼及仲裁以及破产及重组。

本所在该业务领域的亮点包括：

• Counsel to Aeroports de Paris in €1.3 billion IPO.
  
  
• Regular counsel to Italy’s flagship airline Alitalia - Linee Aeree Italiane including in recent representations such as its 2006 €1 billion capital increase—a key element in the Italian government's rescue package for the troubled airline—and in Alitalia’s action in the European Court of First Instance seeking to annul the July 2001 European Commission decision to authorize State Aid conditionally.
  
  
• Counsel to Alenia Aeronautica, subsidiary of Finmeccanica, in its joint venture with Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Corp. (SCAC), the subsidiary of Sukhoi Aviation Holding, for the development and commercialization of the Superjet 100, a new mid-range civilian aircraft.
  
  
• Counsel to Travelport/Galileo, one of the three major computer reservation systems (which recently merged with Worldspan), with respect to a number of merger control, antitrust, and regulatory matters.
  
  
• Counsel to Airline Tariff Publishing Company, a joint venture of U.S. and non-U.S. carriers that disseminates fare information worldwide to computer reservations systems, airlines and travel agents, in the largest antitrust class-action price fixing suit ever brought, and in a separate action by the U.S. Department of Justice alleging tacit collusion among U.S. airlines to use ATP as a mechanism to manipulate air fares.
  
  
• Counsel to Panamanian airline Copa in its IPO, one of the first Panamanian companies to be listed on the NYSE.
  
  
• 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 and e-commerce matters.
  
  
• Counsel to British Airways in the EC Commission’s approval of its strategic alliance with Iberia and GB Airways.
  
  
• Counsel to the Ministry of Communications and Transportation of Mexico in the Mexican government’s $203 million sale of 36% of the outstanding capital stock of Grupo Aeroportuario del Centro Norte, S.A. de C.V. to Empresas ICA, S.A. de C.V.
  
  
• Regular counsel to Airbus Industrie including recent representations in trade matters relating to aircraft manufacture and in a matter before both the U.S. and EU antitrust authorities, among others.
  
  
• Counsel to British Airways in an antitrust investigation by the UK Office of Fair Trading into the airline’s corporate discounting practices.
  
  
• Counsel to the Belgian State and Belgian institutional shareholders in the €735 million sale of a 70% interest in Brussels International Airport Company.
  
  
• Counsel to equity sponsors of the only two major U.S. airlines to emerge successfully from bankruptcy. (We are currently active in over 10 airline restructurings worldwide.)