Bill Gibson
Bill Gibson
Speaker
Partner

Vedder Price

United Kingdom

Bill Gibson is a Partner at Vedder Price and a member of the Global Transportation Finance team in the firm’s London office.

Mr. Gibson focuses his practice on a broad range of financings involving various asset types and portfolios of equipment, concentrating particularly on commercial and corporate aviation finance. He advises financiers, lessors and airlines in connection with the leasing and financing of commercial and corporate aircraft on a broad range of cross-border leasing and financing transactions, including ECA-supported and tax-based financings. He covers procurement, portfolio transactions and operating leases for a range of major industry participants.

In addition to Mr. Gibson’s commercial aviation experience, he also acts on behalf of financiers and train operating companies in connection with the financing and leasing of rolling stock.

Mr. Gibson was ranked in the Chambers 2020 and 2021 Asia-Pacific Guide in the Aviation: Finance category as Band 4. The guide commended him for his significant experience working on major aircraft financing transactions. Since 2018, Mr. Gibson was recognized among the world’s leading aviation attorneys by Euromoney Legal Media Group’s Expert Guides.  He was also ranked in Chambers UK Guide, in the Asset Finance: Aviation Finance category, in 2017.

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Sessions

Main Agenda

Hear how different lenders - ranging from mainstream banks through to alternative lenders - assess deals and get them done.

  • How do banks assess the risk of portfolio deals? Are there conditions that the lessors must meet? I.e. How the aircraft should be placed? Oversite and contractual agreements in terms of jurisdiction? 
  • How do alternative lenders differ from this? What’s evolved? Are they seeing the same opportunities? Are they continuing to fill the gap in the market as the banks move away? 
Richard Moody
Global Head, HCOB Aviation Capital
Robert Jack
Co-Founder, volofin
Sneha Kedia
Director, Deutsche Bank
Klejda Tirana
Director - Aviation Finance, Societe Generale
Moderator
Bill Gibson
Partner, Vedder Price