Tom Coates advises financial institutions, aircraft leasing companies and airlines on a broad spectrum of structured finance arrangements, leasing structures, secured lending and financing transactions.
Tom has advised on a variety of transactions, including complex cross-border aircraft portfolio purchases, secured multi-aircraft loan facilities, aircraft lease negotiations with major operators and new-aircraft deliveries involving assets located and operated globally. Tom’s broader practice includes advising on helicopter financings, aircraft engine portfolio sales and leasing, sale-and-leasebacks and export credit-agency-backed financings.
Prior to Pillsbury, Tom worked at an international law firm in London.
Representative Experience
- Advising a major lessor on the leasing of 10 Embraer E195-E2 Aircraft to a South African operator.
- Advising a leading aviation lender in connection with the purchase of one Airbus A350-900 aircraft on lease to a major Asian operator.
- Advising a major operator in connection with various ECA-backed aircraft financings and related deliveries.
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- Advising a leading aviation lender in relation to various secured aircraft facilities with a regional aircraft lessor.
- Advising a lessor in connection with the purchase of a portfolio of 22 Embraer E170/E190 aircraft on lease to various operators.
- Advising a major operator in connection with the sale and novation of one Airbus A321neo aircraft.
- Advising a lessor in connection with the leasing of two Embraer E170 aircraft to a French operator.
Education
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Legal Practice Course, BPP University, 2018
LL.B., University of Bristol, 2017
Admissions
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England and Wales