Lucien D. White

Representative Aircraft and Other Transportation Equipment Transactions

• Representation of non-US commercial airlines in delivery of Boeing aircraft (including Washington State tax exemption analysis and legal opinions)
• Representation of a well-known aircraft management company in the development, formation and launch of its corporate and commercial aircraft lending platform
• Representation of two aircraft OEM start-ups in the preparation of their standard aircraft purchase and sale agreements
• Representation of a private corporate aircraft charter company in its restructuring
• Representation of sponsor in multi-equipment, tri-party leveraged lease transaction involving 38 separate transportation equipment pools
• Representation of a publicly traded helicopter manufacturing and operating company in the leveraged acquisition of a privately-held helicopter company
• Representation of a commercial aircraft engine manufacturer in a US$180 million tri-party aircraft engine purchase/financing transaction involving a major US airline and major European aircraft manufacturer
• Representation of the purchaser in a leveraged acquisition of several DC10-30CF aircraft
• Representation of a foreign air carrier in a series of Ex-Im Bank backed bank financed acquisitions with capital markets take outs
• Representation of an Italian bank in a SACE-backed financing of aircraft acquisitions
• Representation of helicopter service company in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy restructuring and exit
• Representation of the Chapter 7 bankruptcy trustee in the bankruptcy of a luxury private jet hire company based in the United Sates and Singapore

Representative Non-Transportation Equipment Transactions

• Representation of a top-tier investment bank in the sale of a US$250 million+ pool of performing and non-performing first-lien residential mortgages
• Representation of a top-tier investment bank as placement agent in the first two rated securitizations of a unique class of cash-flowing assets
• Representation of the sponsor in a series of structured repackaging transactions involving RMBS, CMBS and other asset classes (with an initial issuance of US$690 million) that elevated DLA Piper to the top ten in Asset-Backed Alert's League Tables for underwriter counsel of US ABS/MBS in 2008
• Representation of sponsor in US$53 million+ investment grate rated securitization of a unique class of cash-flowing assets
• Representation of multiple secondary-market residential mortgage loan purchasers in leveraged purchases of mid-sized pools of residential first- and second-lien mortgage loans, including one transaction involving the securitization of a pool via an offshore entity
• Representation of the originator in a US$2.7 billion rated multi-party CDO/SIV hybrid that included US$2.4 billion in pari passu RMBS repurchase facilities at the top of the capital structure with three major investment banks
• Representation of the sponsor in a US$350 million rated real estate securitization in Dubai under a Sharia-compliant structure, one of the first rated securitizations in the Middle East