Zoe has extensive experience advising airlines, owners, lenders and lessors on a wide variety of cross-border aviation financing, leasing and trading transactions in both the commercial and business aviation sector.
Prior to joining Clyde & Co, Zoe worked for a leading international aircraft leasing company. She also spent five years working for a leading international airline based in the UAE. Zoe trained and spent a number of years working at a top aviation law firm in London, Paris and Hong Kong.
Zoe graduated from the University of Oxford and qualified as a solicitor in England & Wales in 2007.
Expérience
Advising a major international operating lessor on a wide variety of transactions including lease agreements, aircraft financing, aircraft and engine sale agreements, lease novations and assignments, insurance-related matters, aircraft consignments and technical services contracts.
Advising a leading international airline on multiple finance and operating leases of Airbus A380 and Boeing 777 aircraft, involving a wide variety of funding sources (including ECAs, capital markets, Islamic finance and syndicated debt finance).
Advising owners and operators in numerous business jet transactions involving sales, purchases, financings (including PDP financings).
Advising on a number of lease restructuring deals including lease amendments, restructuring and rental forbearance agreements, lease termination and settlement agreements.
Advising on the first Middle East issuance of Enhanced Equipment Trust Certificates for the financing of four A380s, awarded “Aviation 100 Deal of the Year” by Airline Economics Journal.
Advising on the world’s first sukuk financing guaranteed by the Export Credits Guarantee Department of the UK Government to raise USD 1 billion for the purchase of four Airbus A380s.
Advising a low-cost carrier on its first JOLCO transaction.
Advising an airline group on the purchase and trade-in of a pool of aircraft.
