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Vedder Price
With approximately 275 lawyers, we serve sophisticated clients of all sizes and in virtually all industries from our offices in Chicago, New York, Washington, DC, London, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Singapore. You can expect practical, responsive, results-oriented, cost-effective service, delivered by a firm with a world-class reputation in key practice areas. We treat every client and every matter with uncompromising dedication and personal attention. When you work with Vedder Price, you get the resources and diverse experience of a large firm coupled with the loyalty, commitment and personal attention of a trusted friend and partner.
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With over 70 professionals in Chicago, New York, Washington, DC, London, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Singapore, the Global Transportation Finance team of Vedder Price is one of the largest, most experienced and best recognized transportation finance practices in the world. Our clients come from a broad spectrum of industries, and we are involved in the financing of an extensive range of transactions for lessees and lessors, borrowers and lenders, private and public companies, manufacturers, underwriters and governmental agencies. Our Global Transportation Finance team’s reputation begins with its worldwide prominence in aviation finance. However, our practice extends well beyond commercial aviation, and we are considered industry leaders in many other types of transportation financing, including business aviation, railcar, maritime and other transportation assets, healthcare, energy, computer software/hardware, and manufacturing/construction equipment. Furthermore, the scope of our transportation finance practice often includes related practice areas such as asset securitization and capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, aviation regulation and structured and project finance.
Vedder Price’s Global Transportation Finance practice has a depth and breadth of experience that surpasses other law firms. The diversity of our client base, transaction structures and asset types affords us unique insight into market standards and practices. This insight creates our unequaled ability to take a practical, market-based approach to transactions and to provide efficient, insightful legal advice, while maintaining a results-oriented focus. Our Commercial Aviation Finance practice group has achieved global recognition and prominence representing a wide variety of clients worldwide, including airlines, operating lessors, commercial banks, investment banks, private equity funds, manufacturers and governmental agencies. Our commercial aviation finance lawyers form the core of the Global Transportation Finance team at Vedder Price, which Chambers Global has recognized as “one of the top law firms for Asset Finance in the world.”
The Securities & Capital Markets group at Vedder Price provides comprehensive and responsive securities law and capital markets counseling in today’s rapidly changing financial, business and regulatory environments. We represent clients in all aspects of the capital formation process, from private placements to public offerings, as well as in a broad array of corporate finance transactions. With extensive combined securities law experience across a wide range of industries, our capital markets attorneys provide seasoned, innovative service aimed at achieving our clients’ objectives in a time-responsive and cost-effective manner. Our capabilities include Capital Markets, Underwriters and Placement Agents, Securities Law Compliance and Reporting, Asset Securitization and Structured Finance, Executive and Equity-Based Compensation, Public and Private Investment Companies and Investment Advisers and Mergers and Acquisitions.
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Kevin MacLeod
Head of New York Capital Markets Group,
Vedder Price
Yezdan Badrakhan
Executive Director,
Morgan Stanley
Robert Sheldon
Managing Director,
Deutsche Bank
Clay Smith
Partner,
Split Rock Aviation