Graham is “very experienced in the industry,” “solution-driven” and “skillful in negotiations.
Chambers UK

Graham Tyler leads the firm's Asset Finance team globally.

A recognised authority on aircraft finance and leasing, Graham regularly represents financial institutions, leasing companies, equity investors, airlines and arrangers in the procurement, financing and leasing of new and used aircraft and engines and aircraft portfolio acquisitions, financings and sales. Adept at crafting complex cross-border leasing and innovative financing structures, Graham negotiates commercial debt deals including warehouse facilities, export credit-supported arrangements, operating and finance leases, Islamic finance transactions, tax-based and capital market deals and where necessary the restructuring of those deals.

Representative Experience

  • Representing an international fund on its acquisition of individual aircraft and aircraft portfolios, the financing and warehouse financing of those aircraft and the refinancing of the debt through the US capital markets;
  • Representing a syndicate of 10 lenders, in connection with a warehouse financing for the benefit of a major aircraft lessor involving 29 aircraft across multiple jurisdictions.
  • Representing several flag carriers and major airlines on their new aircraft financing involving ECA and insurance backed transactions, commercial and Islamic debt financings, JOLCOs and operating leases.

Professional Highlights

  • Recognised by Chambers UK, Asset Finance (2015–2021); Chambers Global, Aviation: Finance – Global (2015-2021); The Legal 500 UK, Transport Finance & Leasing (2014–2021); and Best Lawyers in the UK, Asset Finance Law (2020-2022).
  • Overall Debt Deal of the Year, Airline Economics (2018)
  • Led the Pillsbury teams winning Airfinance Journal’s “Editor’s Deal of the Year” and “Sale and Leaseback Deal of the Year” awards in 2015.

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Education

  • LL.B. (Hons), The University of Exeter, 1987

    The College of Law, Guildford, 1988

Admissions

  • England and Wales