Ryan Cheung advises on a broad range of cross-border aircraft financing, leasing, sale and purchase transactions involving commercial aircraft, helicopters and aircraft engines.

Ryan has substantial asset-finance experience, with particular expertise across the aviation and transportation sectors. Prior to joining Pillsbury, Ryan completed a secondment with Airbus’s commercial and financing legal department in Toulouse, France.

Representative Experience

  • Advised a lessor on the sale-and-leaseback of four new Airbus aircraft delivered to Wizz Air.
  • Advised a lessor-lender on the PDP financing of six Boeing 737-8 aircraft by Air Europa.
  • Advised a leading African airline on a JOLCO relating to an Airbus A350-900.

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  • Advised a lessor on the (Labuan) restructuring of two aircraft leases relating to AirAsia X Berhad and Thai AirAsiaX.
  • Advised various lessors on the sale/purchase and lease novation relating to various Boeing, Airbus and ATR aircraft across various jurisdictions.
  • Advised an export credit agency on the subleasing of two ATR aircraft to a South African operator and one ATR aircraft to Air Tahiti.
  • Assisted a Mongolian airline with the negotiation of a lease novation agreement.

Education

  • Legal Practice Course, The College of Law, London Bloomsbury, 2014

    Graduate Diploma, Law, City University, London, 2012

    B.A., Tufts University, 2009

Admissions

  • Solicitor, England and Wales

Languages

  • Japanese

    Chinese (Mandarin)

    Chinese (Cantonese)

    Korean