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 countries. AerCap acquired International Lease Finance Corporation (ILFC), a subsidiary of AIG, in 2014, and GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS), a subsidiary of GE, in 2021.Responsible for strategic deals, financings, asset sales, corporate governance, intellectual property, worldwide contract oversight, and all securities law matters.• 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 successful merger of industry’s two largest firms.• 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 saving company several million dollars each year.• 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 transactions, as well as exchange offers, tenders, and consent solicitations—satisfying liquidity needs of >$100m/week.• 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.

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 worked alongside AIG CEO and ILFC CEO, directors, and executives in all board affairs.• 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 launch, placing ILFC in position to go public at any time.• 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 company ready for expected Fed oversight.• 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 enormous value.

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 named Airfinance Journal’s deal of the year.

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.