Aviation & Aerospace Consultancy Services

Small and medium sized businesses often cannot justify hiring a full-time experienced adviser but really need to have someone inside the business using legal and business skills to be an integrated part of the business team helping structure deals and shape deal and business strategy.

There are some jobs you would not trust to anybody else – but you are busy.

I routinely work with really smart young in-house lawyers without experience of structuring and closing deals offering “touching the metal” experience of over 35 years of aviation deals.

Running RFP for legal services and managing external lawyers. While not providing legal advice, setting up and managing lega function and job description of lawyers, and setting up main relationships to succeed.

I have experience of every type of commercial deal for almost every type of aircraft and every type of operation. A380s to Twin Otters: buying, selling, maintaining, modifying, leasing and financing any type of airplane.

Decades of hands-on experience of operating leases.

Using honest, neutral professionals with experience in the sector to assist parties find a mutually acceptable solution rather than wait for an expensive and time-consuming dispute.

Working with my good friend Wolf Von Kumberg of Arbitra and Global Resolution if possible, and relevant technical experts.

Over recent years I have become a recognised industry expert and commentator on regulation, strategy and policy on ESG. I know the leading “players” who are leading on ESG in the sector and seek to influence direction of travel.

In early 2021, repeated in 2023, I gave a two-hour presentation to the legal team at a large and well-known aerospace company on the role of in-house counsel. This covered three topics:

The senior lawyer who organised the event wrote later: 

“Thank you Paul. You did a huge job and the topic has really been successful and this was a revelation for some people!”