Fawad Rashid is an asset finance associate experienced in delivering comprehensive aviation and transportation transaction support, with experience drafting, negotiating, and reviewing complex leasing and financing documentation.
Fawad is an associate in the firm’s Asset Finance practice, focusing on aviation and transportation transactions. His experience includes drafting and negotiating aircraft leases and facility agreements, preparing ancillary finance documents such as refund and remarketing letters, and issuing corporate certificates and legal opinions.
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He regularly reviews and analyzes transaction documentation to support financings, sales and acquisitions. He also assists clients in structuring and executing aircraft and engine leasing arrangements.
Representative Experience
- Assisted the New York branch of a Japanese financial institution with the financing of one B737 MAX 8-200 aircraft to a US ultra-low cost airline as borrower, with an aviation-focused managing general agent as the insurer agent, and a community bank as facility agent and as security trustee.
- Advised Japanese lessor on the financing, purchase and novation of a portfolio of six aircraft, with Lessees based in several jurisdictions.
- Advised Japanese lessor on the sale and leaseback of four Boeing 737-MAX aircraft to a Middle Eastern airline.
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- Advised Japanese Buyer and Irish lessor on the sale and leaseback of four aircraft to a European flag carrier.
- Advised Japanese lessor on the sale and lease novation of two Airbus A350 aircraft to a Qatari Lessor.
- Represented Japanese lessor on the refinancing and leasing of four aircraft to a Colombian airline.
- Advised Borrower on the financing and purchase of a private jet.
Education
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Legal Practice Course, BPP Law School, 2019
Graduate Diploma in Law, BPP Law School, 2018
B.A., History, Queen Mary College, University of London, 2017
Admissions
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England and Wales