Awards & Rankings 05.23.14
Payson Coleman
Senior Counsel to the Firm
Senior Counsel to the Firm, Palm Beach & New York
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Payson Coleman represents high-net-worth individuals, family offices and foundations in a wide variety of estate planning, family office and trust administration, and tax residency matters.
Payson advises clients on efficiently acquiring and managing family assets, including real estate, aircraft and alternative investments with special emphasis on hedge funds and private equity funds. He has had a long career representing aircraft financiers and individuals in commercial and business aircraft acquisition, leasing and finance and continues to work with the Firm’s Transportation Finance team on such matters. He has served and serves on several for-profit and not-for-profit boards and investment committees.
Representative Experience
- Represented buyers of three new Bombardier Global 6000 aircraft, including financing, setting up flight department, hangar space and maintenance departments.
- Acting as trustee for high-net-worth families and managing governance and investment management issues.
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- Serving as chairman of a not-for-profit with large investment portfolio, multiple investment advisors and fund managers.
- Serving as a director of international not-for-profit conservation organization based in Africa, including as a director of its for-profit subsidiary involved in raising “socially conscious” capital for investment in Africa.
- Representation of Fortune 50 purchaser of multiple new Gulfstream aircraft and sale of used business aircraft.
- Negotiation of NetJet fractional share arrangements.
Professional Highlights
- Chambers Global, Asset Finance—USA (2007 – 2014)
- Chambers USA, Aviation Finance—National (2005 – 2014), Banking: Equipment Finance & Leasing—New York (2008 – 2010, 2012 – 2013)
- Best Lawyers in America, Equipment Finance (past 20 years)
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Honors & Awards
- The Legal 500 U.S., Asset Finance and Leasing (2007 – 2013)
- Who’s Who Legal, Aviation—New York (2010)
- Best of the Best USA, Aviation, Euromoney/Legal Media Group (2009, 2011)
- Guide to the World’s Leading Aviation Lawyers, Euromoney/Legal Media Group (2012)
- International Who's Who of Aviation Lawyers (2008 – 2009)
Education
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J.D., Hofstra University School of Law, 1976
Articles Editor, Hofstra Law ReviewB.A., Williams College, 1972
Admissions
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Florida
New York