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 in $25 billion in offerings by participants in the airline industry segment since the late 1990s.
- We have been involved in over 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.