Ellen has advised banks, ECAs, lessors, airlines and private purchasers on large, crossborder financing, sale and leasing transactions in the commercial and business aviation sector, across Southeast Asia, Korea, India, the US, Canada, Europe and the Cayman Islands.
Her recent experience includes acting for the airline with respect to the financing of new A321NEO aircraft being delivered into the Philippines through a finance lease structure, acting for the lessor in respect of the financing, purchase and leasing of new Airbus A320 aircraft to an Indian operator, acting for the financiers in respect of the commercial financing for the sale and leasing of an Airbus A320 aircraft, for operations in Thailand, advising an airline on its aircraft fleet portfolio transfers of B737 and A330 aircraft leases from multiple lessor groups, and acting for an airline in the repayment, refinancing and re-leasing of 21 aircraft operated in Southeast Asia and acting for the purchaser in respect of the financing and purchase of a San Marino registered Gulfstream G650 private jet.
Ellen has also advised EDC as lead associate in the financing of ten A220 (f/k/a Bombardier CSeries CS300) aircraft on lease to Korean Air, which involved the first ever delivery of a CS300 aircraft to an operator in Asia.