Demi Hueth

Partner

Finance

“Demi Hueth is an absolute rock star…She is detailed, prompt, thorough, highly personable, unparalleled work ethic; will no doubt be an industry-leading lawyer for a very long time.” (Legal 500 US, 2025)

Demi Hueth

Overview

Demi is a partner on the Aviation Finance Team. Demi’s practice focuses on aviation, including corporate, asset-backed and structured financings in the loan and capital markets, restructurings and joint ventures. Demi also works on funds finance matters, where she primarily advises borrowers in negotiating and documenting subscription credit facilities. Demi has worked on some of the most complex and innovative financings involving aircraft, including multiple transactions that have been recognized by industry publications as “Deals of the Year”.

Experience

  • 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

  • Deutsche Bank in a $2.4 billion syndicated, senior secured asset-based multi-draw term loan consisting of a $269 million stub lease warehouse facility with Irish and US aviation borrowers to finance 100 identified aircraft, and a $400 million accordion that can be used to finance additional aircraft not yet identified; Recognized as “Best Commercial Bank Deal 2023” by Ishka

  • Global asset manager in a co-invest with a US-based leasing company to acquire a seed portfolio of 12 aircraft for an anticipated ABS takeout

  • AIP Capital and Phoenix Aviation Capital in a joint venture with LuminArx Capital Management

  • ATLAS SP in a $900 million warehouse and term loan hybrid facility with Irish and US borrowers

  • MUFG in an innovative term loan for end-of-life aircraft owned by Aero Capital Solutions

  • Castlelake Aviation Holdings (Ireland) Limited and its affiliates, in the acquisition of a portfolio of aircraft on lease to a South American airline and the conversion of a number of leases for freighter aircraft from operating leases to finance leases

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Credentials

Education

  • New York University School of Law, J.D., 2016 (NYU Journal of Law & Business, Executive Editor)
  • University of Notre Dame, B.A. in Anthropology and German, 2010

Admissions

  • New York

Recognitions

  • The Best Lawyers in America© (BL Rankings, LLC), “Ones to Watch,” Banking and Finance Law (New York), 2026 and 2027
  • Airline Economics, “40 Under 40”, 2025
  • Chambers USA, “Up and Coming” in Transportation: Aviation: Finance (Nationwide), 2025 and 2026; “Associates to Watch” in Transportation: Aviation: Finance (Nationwide), 2024
  • Selected to the Rising Stars list, Airfinance Journal, 2024
  • Legal 500 U.S., Transport: Aviation and Air Travel: Finance, 2023–2026; Finance: Commercial Lending: Advice to Bank Lenders, 2026; Finance: Commercial Lending: Advice to Direct Lenders/Private Credit, 2026
Insights

Articles

Structural Innovation: Master Trusts in Aircraft ABS Transactions

Overview The aviation asset-backed securitization (ABS) market continues to strengthen. Aviation ABS activity in 2025 exceeded US$10.3 billion in public …

January 15, 2026 • Demi Hueth and David Berkery outline how the aviation ABS market exceeded $10.3 billion in 2025 and introduced a key structural innovation: the master trust. This flexible structure enables issuers to finance multiple aircraft portfolios over time from a single trust, improving efficiency and lowering costs. As investor familiarity with identified and blind pools increases, master trusts are positioned for continued use in 2026 and beyond.

January 15, 2026 • 4-minute read

Client Alerts

Avianca Holdings: Second Circuit’s “Billing Date” Approach to Fixed-Schedule Lease Payments in Bankruptcy Stands after U.S. Supreme Court Declines Challenge

On November 17, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to the Second Circuit’s decision affirming that Avianca Holdings S.A. (“Avianca”) was required to pay in full certain fixed-schedule obligations related to brokers’ commissions under unexpired aircraft leases which came due during Avianca’s chapter 11 bankruptcy process (the “Chapter 11 Cases”).

December 16, 2025 • V&E Restructuring & Reorganization Update

December 16, 2025 • 5-minute read

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Client Alerts

Aviation Finance: The Outlook for Business in 2025

As global passenger demand surges back to pre-pandemic levels, the aviation finance sector finds itself at a pivotal crossroads. Lower interest rates are sparking renewed activity, the aircraft ABS market is rebounding, and supply chain challenges continue to reshape priorities.

January 9, 2025

January 9, 2025 • 1-minute read

Industry - Airlines and Aviation

Client Alerts

Vinson & Elkins Aviation Finance 2023 Recap: Top 5 Headline Events that Shaped the Aviation Industry

As 2023 draws to a close we are taking a moment to recap on some of the headline events that have occurred in the aviation industry during the last 12 months.

December 22, 2023

December 22, 2023 • 4-minute read

Client Alerts

An Introduction to Aviation CLOs

One of the reasons for a reduction in the number of aircraft asset-backed securitizations (ABS) coming to market in 2022 and 2023, is the time lag between the rapid increase in interest rates by central banks and the corresponding increases in lease rates which we are now seeing.

May 4, 2023 • V&E Aviation Finance Update

May 4, 2023 • 6-minute read

Industry - Airlines and Aviation
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