E X P E R T G U I D E S R I S I N G S T A R S RISING STARS WHAT’S INSIDE? 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RESTRUCTURING AND INSOLVENCY 76 SHIPPING AND MARITIME 78 Directors: Leslie Van De Walle (Chairman), Andrew Rashbass (CEO), Wendy Pallot, Jan Babiak, Kevin STRUCTURED FINANCE AND SECURITISATION 80 Beatty, Tim Collier, Colin Day, Tristan Hillgarth, TAX 82 Imogen Joss, Lorna Tilbian TECHNOLOGY, MEDIA AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS 88 Cover image © rrbancod/adobestock.com.com TRADEMARKS 93 TRANSFER PRICING 96 TRUSTS AND ESTATES 101 WHITE COLLAR CRIME 104 The Queen’s Award INDEX 111 for Enterprise 2008 RISING STARS EXPERT GUIDES 1 METHODOLOGY EXPERT GUIDES RESEARCH Methodology Expert Guides has been researching the world’s legal markets for 25 years, and has become one of the most trusted resources for international buyers of legal services. Welcome to the fifth edition of Legal Media Group’s Rising Stars 2019. Our guides cover a broad – and growing – range of legal practice areas, including: When published in 1994, the Expert Guides were the first-ever guides dedicated to leading individuals in the legal industry. Since then we have continued to focus on individuals considered by peers and clients to be the best in their respective fields. This principle and concept has been extended to Rising Stars and we are launching the first edition of the series this year. Aviation Banking, finance and transactional The Rising Stars guide represents a listing of the brightest and most talented practitioners in the Commercial arbitration area of business law and related practices. We classify rising stars (RS) as recently appointed Competition and antitrust partners or senior associates – who have already been recognised for their work in the Construction and real estate background of important transactions. Our objective is to identify energetic, professional and Energy and environment skilful upcoming talent who have already demonstrated their status in recent notable Insurance and reinsurance transactions and who are on the right track for future partnership and leadership in the field International trade and shipping where they operate. Labour and employment Life sciences To recognise rising stars, we have sent over 10,000 questionnaires to senior practitioners involved Litigation and product liability in each practice area in more than 55 jurisdictions, asking them to nominate individuals as Patents defined above. Privacy and data protection Rising stars All nominees have been independently offered the opportunity to enhance their listing with a Tax professional biography. They give readers valuable and detailed information on each Technology, media and telecommunications practitioner’s specialisation and work. Trademarks Transfer pricing We owe the success of this guide to all individuals and firms that filled in the questionnaire and Trusts and estates helped with candidates selection. We hope you will find the guide to be a useful tool and White collar crime information source for the next generation of leaders in the legal business. Women in business law All information was believed to be correct at the time of going to press. Our guides are distributed to and regularly used by Research team the world’s most prominent decision-makers and frequent buyers of legal services. Each guide has an extensive distribution list plus additional tailoring to its area of focus. Each guide is also reprinted in full at www.expertguides.com 2 EXPERT GUIDES RISING STARS EXPERTGUIDES T HE WORLD’S LEADING LAWYERS CHOSEN BY THEIR PEERS AVIATION Australia 6 Hong Kong SAR 6 United Arab Emirates 6 Belgium 6 Ireland 6 United Kingdom 4 Brazil 6 Japan 6 United States 7 Cayman Islands 6 Netherlands 6 Venezuela 7 Chile 6 Russia 6 Germany 6 Singapore 6 RISING STARS EXPERT GUIDES 3 AVIATION ATTORNEY BIOGRAPHIES U N I T E D K I N G D O M U N I T E D K I N G D O M Tina Collier Nicholas Harding Clyde & Co Clyde & Co The St Botolph Building The St Botolph Building 138 Houndsditch 138 Houndsditch London EC3A 7AR London EC3A 7AR UK UK Tel: (44) 20 7876 4096 Tel: (44) 20 7876 4657 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Website: www.clydeco.com Website: www.clydeco.com Tina is a Senior Associate in Clyde & Co’s London Aviation team. Her Nick is a Senior Associate in the Aviation Finance department at Clyde practice is varied and includes contentious and non-contentious work; & Co. He is an experienced aviation finance lawyer acting for leading she is used to handling both high (i.e. multi-million pounds) and low airlines, aircraft finance banks, owners and other market participants value claims. on finance, leasing and sale and purchase transactions relating to all types of commercial and business aircraft. Tina’s contentious work focuses on general aviation disputes and crashes (including fixed/rotor wing, and hot air balloons) for Nick has experience in the financing and leasing of commercial and private/commercial carriage and/or domestic/international carriers. business aircraft and helicopters. His experience includes export credit She also advises airlines on passenger, baggage and cargo claims, has supported financings, finance and operating lease transactions, pre- handled major airline/aircraft losses, and deals with airport and delivery payment financings, tax-based leases and financings ground handling contractual disputes. (including French, Italian and Japanese tax structures), manufacturer supported financings and warranty arrangements, asset value Tina frequently advises insurers and reinsurers on subrogation claims. guarantees and sale and purchase transactions. He also advises airlines Her contentious work covers a number of jurisdictions, in particular on “power by the hour” and maintenance arrangements (including those in Latin America, Africa and Europe, and she also has experience performance guarantees) with original equipment manufacturers. of Russia and the Far East. Over the past year, Nick has acted on several award-winning For her non-contentious work, Tina advises airlines on regulatory transactions including: issues, including in respect of their terms and conditions of carriage and their policies relating to EU and International standards and • Airline Economics 2018 Lease Deal of the Year: acting for Turkish requirements. She advises both All Risks and War Risks insurers and Airlines on the CACIB-arranged French tax lease financing of a reinsurers on aviation coverage in the above mentioned jurisdictions, Boeing 777F aircraft with ICBC credit support; and provides guidance on the commercial aspects for her clients. • Global Transport Finance 2018 Aircraft Tax Lease of the Year: acting for Royal Air Maroc on the AFIC-supported French tax lease Tina has vast experience of drafting contractual settlement financing of two Boeing aircraft; and documentation and she was part of the Clyde & Co team that advised • Airfinance Journal 2018 Operating Lease Deal of the Year: acting for on and drafted 50/50 provisional claims settlement documentation for airBaltic on the sale and leaseback of two Airbus A220-300 aircraft the Aviation Market on two major airline losses. (formerly the CSeries CS300) with Avation. Tina frequently attends London Aviation Market events. She is held Nick also acts for financiers, owners and operators in the business jet with high regard amongst her clients and was named in the Expert market, advising on the purchase, financing, operating and tax Guides’ Rising Stars publication (aviation category) in 2017