David Berkery

Underwriters in MERIT 2026-1, a $801 million securitization of aviation loans serviced by Merit

Investors in SAPA 2025-R1, a refinancing of an aircraft-backed securitization serviced by Avolon

Investors in the 2025 refinancing of the Regional 2021-1, an aircraft-backed securitization serviced by Falko

A large commercial bank in the development of a pass through trust structure to allow institutional investors to participate in a large warehouse facility secured by aircraft and engines

Acting for AIP Capital in connection with the financing by a European bank of a portfolio of ten spare engines

Castlelake in connection with the acquisition of 8 aircraft on lease to Avianca from a syndicate of lenders

AerCap Ireland Limited and its affiliates in connection with the sale of a portfolio of 8 aircraft on-lease to another leading leasing company

Castlelake in connection with the conversion of 6 leases with Tampa Cargo from operating leases to finance leases

Bank of America’s leasing platform with the sale of two aircraft on lease to WestJet to a leading leasing company

New Pacific Airways, a start-up airline with transpacific operations, in multiple senior secured loans to finance acquisitions as it expands its fleet

New Pacific Airways, a start-up airline with transpacific operations, in various aircraft purchase and lease transactions to grow its fleet

RAVN Alaska, a regional airline operating in Alaska, in multiple aircraft acquisitions and back-leverage transactions

$655 million aircraft-backed securitization (ABS) of 27 aircraft; the first aircraft ABS to close following the emergence of COVID-19

Migration of a portfolio of 40 aircraft onto the Global Aircraft Trust System (GATS), the largest single migration onto the GATS to-date

Irish aircraft leasing company on the establishment of a $3 billion aviation leasing platform formed through a joint venture with a U.S. investment management firm

Syndicate of lenders providing a $3 billion warehouse facility to allow Global Jet Capital to, among other things, acquire a 350 aircraft business jet leasing portfolio from General Electric and representing Deutsche Bank as underwriter of multiple ABS transactions used to refinance that facility

Canadian pension and insurance fund manager as investor in a sidecar joint venture with an Irish aircraft leasing company, establishing a new $2 billion aircraft leasing platform

$515 million ABS of 79 aircraft; the first of the new generation ABS to close following the global financial crisis

Shareholders and management on the creation of Elix Aviation Management, a brand new aircraft management platform within the Elix Aviation group

Underwriters on the securitization of a $971 million loan portfolio secured by 159 aircraft