Lucien White is an aircraft and other transportation equipment transactional and structured-finance professional with extensive experience in advising clients in multi-jurisdiction commercial and corporate aircraft acquisition and financing transactions, and in designing, managing and executing complex, bespoke structured finance transactions involving numerous asset classes, including aircraft, whole loans, RMBS, CMBS, satellite transponders, high-yield bonds, tobacco fee settlements and escrow funds, and opioid settlement legal fee payment obligations in challenging, multi-party settings.
Lucien has represented multiple US and non-US commercial airlines, purchasers, borrowers and lenders, has represented investment banks as placement agents, lenders, borrowers, originators, credit enhancers and collateral managers in several billion dollars of US-based, offshore, cross-border and leveraged lease transactions, and has represented bankruptcy trustees in Chapter 7 and 11 airline bankruptcies. He has substantial experience in financing transactions using off-shore special-purpose vehicles as well as EETC, EXIM Bank, SACE and JOLCO commercial aircraft financing transactions, PDP aircraft financing transactions, and aircraft lease financing transactions structured to obtain bonus depreciation for lessors (including sale-leaseback transactions).
In 1996, Lucien co-founded and, for three years, co-managed a business for the assembly and delivery of light-rail passenger vehicles for the City of San Francisco Municipal Railway system under a subcontract with the Italian vehicle manufacturer, Breda Costruzioni Ferroviarie SPA, which delivered more than 20 light-rail vehicles.
