Press Release 03.20.25
Joe Guarnaccia focuses his practice on general corporate matters, including mergers and acquisitions, capital markets transactions and securities law compliance.
Joe also advises clients in the aviation finance sector on restructurings, portfolio sales and cross-border leasing transactions. He has experience representing lenders, lessors and investors in structured financings and other complex aviation matters.
Representative Experience
- Advised Azorra in connection with its portfolio acquisition of 49 Embraer aircraft and two spare engines from DAE.
- Advised Azorra in connection with a $454 million Rated Term Loan B senior credit facility. This is Azorra’s inaugural capital markets transaction and was issued concurrently with a $1 billion revolving credit facility.
- Advising in connection with the restructuring of AerCap’s fleet of leases to Azul, achieving an estimated $1 billion in savings to Azul in bankruptcy.
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- Represented Blue Crest Aviation Partners 2025-1 LLC in connection with its structuring and equity financing pursuant to a joint venture among Blue Owl Alternative Credit Fund and Yieldstreet Alternative Income Fund, Inc., among others.
- Advised Sunbird, a special-purpose ABS issuer, in connection with establishing a strategy for the sale of its portfolio of 19 aircraft engines on lease to 11 different lessees.
- Represents Sunbird in connection with the negotiation and closing of the sale of the engines, repayment of all its debt and subsequent winding-up of the Sunbird group.
- Represented Sinclair Television Group, Inc. (STG) and certain of STG’s affiliated entities in connection with a series of liquidity-enhancing debt refinancing transactions.
Education
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J.D., Hofstra University School of Law, 2023
cum laudeM.S., Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, 2018
B.A., Fordham University, 2016
Admissions
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New York