Patrick Ross Email & Phone Number

Miami & Los Angeles

• AerCap (NYSE: AER) is the global leader across all areas of aviation leasing (aircraft, engines & helicopters), and the world’s largest owner of commercial aircraft, with ~$70bn assets and ~300 customers in ~80.
• Spearheaded multi-part $24bn GECAS acquisition-debt package including a top-10-largest bond offering of all time, then relocated to Miami and cofounded new US headquarters composed mostly of fresh recruits, leading to.
• Established, managed, and scaled captive insurance company, formed after theft by Russian airlines of 100+ aircraft worth ~$3bn that triggered >10x increase in premiums, opening direct access to reinsurance markets and.
• Led multiple aircraft portfolio sales and variety of critical treasury deals—credit agreements and securities offerings including listed, secured, subordinated, non-recourse, sharia-compliant, and export-credit agency.
• Advanced many post-merger synergy projects including optimizing US legal structure and complicated transfers of assets worth $40bn+ to Ireland that collectively saved company ~$225m/year.

Los Angeles

• International Lease Finance Corporation (ILFC) was the world’s largest independent lessor of Boeing and Airbus passenger jets.Rare promotion directly to VP. Member of core team to monetize ILFC. As corporate secretary.
• Chaired, marshaled, and ran multidisciplinary team of 50+ people preparing for IPO, made roadshow presentations alongside C-suite executives, organized NYSE-compliant independent board, and obtained SEC clearance to.
• Appointed sole primary liaison to US Federal Reserve in connection with ILFC’s parent (AIG) being designated “too big to fail” under Dodd-Frank, and headed initiative to vastly strengthen corporate governance, leaving.
• Counseled AIG CEO, ILFC CEO, directors, and senior management through series of different M&A opportunities until sale of ILFC to AerCap, creating world's largest publicly traded aircraft leasing company and unlocking.

Los Angeles

• Responsible for negotiating aircraft leases at meetings held all around the world.
• Presided at negotiations with airlines based in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Canada, Finland, Italy, Mexico, Sri Lanka, Turkey and the U.S., usually obtaining executed documents within a week of beginning in-person talks.
• Devised, defended, and implemented strategy to better organize company to be a secured borrower, which involved large changes to corporate legal structure, unlocking several billion dollars in new sources of liquidity.
• Oversaw taxpayer bailout credit facility with the Fed, then coordinated simultaneous private placement of $3.9bn secured bonds and public offering of $500m unsecured bonds, liberating company from Fed facility and.

Los Angeles

Oldest law firm in LA, in that era also the largest and one of the Big Three, with a footprint in the world’s major financial and political centers and a full-service transactions department.Represented companies and investment banks in wide variety of corporate, licensing, M&A, and especially capital markets and complex structured financing transactions.

Jd

Activities and Societies: California Law Review; Oral Advocacy Award; BCLT Fellowship

Ba, Philosophy

Activities and Societies: Honors in the Major of Philosophy

Education record

Education record