John Karesh Email & Phone Number

John I. Karesh is a Shareholder at Vedder Price P.C. concentrating in the areas of aviation finance and equipment leasing. He represents lenders and lessors in a variety of domestic and cross-border aircraft finance transactions, including mortgage financing and operating leases, and investors and operators in domestic and cross-border purchases, sales and financing of aircraft. He has represented lessors and lenders in the enforcement of creditors’ rights and in connection with disputes arising out of aircraft finance and leasing transactions, and in most of the major airline bankruptcies over the past two decades in connection with the repossession of aircraft and the restructuring of debt and lease financing transactions. Mr. Karesh is the author of "Foreclosure on Collateral That Includes Intangible Rights," 42 Uniform Commercial Law Journal, 123 (February 2010); "Repossession and Foreclosure of Aircraft from the Perspective of the FAA and UCC," 65 Journal of Air Law & Commerce (Fall 2000); and "Issues Affecting Administrative Claim Status and Other Remedies for Aircraft Lessors in Airline Bankruptcies," Journal of Bankruptcy Law & Commerce (May/June 1997). Mr. Karesh co-authored "Strategic Issues in Operating Leases," which was published in the 2009 Euromoney World Leasing Yearbook. Mr. Karesh has been recognized in The International Who’s Who of Aviation Lawyers (2006–2010). He was selected for inclusion in 2007, and from 2009 to 2010, in New York Super Lawyers, and was named a leading lawyer in Aviation Lawyers (2009), was in the Guide to the World’s Leading Aviation Lawyers (2008), has been ranked globally in Chambers Global for Asset Finance (2007), was named in the International Financial Law Review Expert’s Guide for Aviation Lawyers (2007) and was recognized as "Best of the Best" in the Aviation Lawyer category by Euromoney Publications (2007). Mr. Karesh received an "AV Preeminent" Peer Rating in Martindale-Hubbell.Specialties: Aircraft Finance Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights Operating Leases

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  Shareholder

  Vedder Price, P.C.

  Jul 2003 - Present