AIRPORTS AND AVIATION

Capabilities and experience WITH IN-DEPTH KNOWLEDGE OF THE SECTOR IN WHICH THEY ARE IMMERSED, ADDLESHAW LEADING GODDARD’S INTERNATIONAL AND AVIATION TEAM HAS THE EXPERIENCE AND EXPERTISE TO THE WAY ENSURE THEIR CLIENTS ARE PROPERLY SUPPORTED AT EVERY STAGE OF THEIR PROJECT.

The combined experience of our international offices provides world-class expertise, providing a product that is fit for the whole Aviation market.

We have the capacity to handle large and very complex transactions, acting for project funders, sponsors, developers, employers, constructors, sub-contractors and professional teams. We have advised on the procurement, operation and maintenance (including facilities management) of major and complex projects.

In this document we have grouped our extensive experience in the airports and aviation sector in the following categories:

z Airport Development and Surface Access

z Litigation

z Airport Finance

z Aviation Regulation

z Commercial Aviation AIRPORT DEVELOPMENT AND SURFACE ACCESS

MANCHESTER EDINBURGH UK AIRPORTS GROUP AIRPORT GOVERNMENT Manchester Airports Training and works UK Government on London Group on its £1bn terminal contracts for Edinburgh railway transformation programme Airport, for its £250 station upgrades CASE STUDY million Capital Investment LONDON Programme

AG advised on all aspects of the £225m development of a mass passenger transit system between Luton Airport Parkway railway station and the airport terminal (the DART), to replace the shuttle bus transfer system. The project will be transformative for Luton Airport and for the wider area as it will increase mode share of journeys to and from the airport by public transport which is a key pillar of the Airport’s Surface Access Strategy and Luton’s Local Transport Plan.

As well as running two simultaneous public procurement competitions, the Addleshaw BAHRAIN GCC AIRPORT STANSTED Goddard team designed and negotiated the AIRPORT PROJECTS AIRPORT contracts with each of the successful bidders we Bahrain Airport on the A consortium of contractors Stansted Airport on its advised LLAL on the process for integrating the procurement strategy for on the design and £600m Transformation DART ticket into the national ticketing and fares the design and construction construction contract for Programme (delivering the system and the interface with the national rail of the new Bahrain the new airport projects in biggest upgrade to the timetable. Southern Passenger Airport the GCC including Muscat, airport since the iconic Lord Terminal and Concourse Salalah, and New Doha Norman Foster Terminal AG also advised on the structure of the International Airport opened), including the enhancement agreements to reduce the number £130m new arrivals terminal of costly interfaces. The project forms part of wider £1bn expansion development of the airport on which we continue to advise London Luton Airport Limited. LITIGATION

HIGHLANDS AND STANSTED AIRPORT LIVERPOOL ISLANDS AIRPORTS LIMITED AIRPORT PLC HIAL in a widely reported civil Stansted Airport Limited in Liverpool Airport Plc in defending case defending to the historical relation to an abuse of dominance claims by Easy Jet Airline acquisition of a key airport and competition law claim issued Company Limited the security of the CPO process against it by Terravision Transport followed at the time Limited

DONCASTER CITY STANSTED AIRPORT COUNCIL LIMITED Doncaster City Council in relation Stansted Airport Limited in to a compulsory purchase order relation to an urgent application and side roads for a major new brought by easyBus Limited highway linking Doncaster Airport for permission to bring Judicial with the A1 (M) Review proceedings, and for urgent interim relief AIRPORT FINANCE

BEIJING CONSTRUCTION PEEL AIRPORTS RBS AND ENGINEERING LIMITED GROUP Peel Airports Limited on RBS on the funding of Manchester Beijing Construction and its acquisition of a majority Airport’s acquisition of East Engineering Group on its £800m shareholding in Teesside Midlands and Bournemouth investment in International Airport / Durham International Airports CASE STUDY City Tees Valley Airport LIVERPOOL AIRPORT

AG advised Liverpool City Region Combined Authority on its £34m loan to Liverpool Airport Group to refinance its existing indebtedness secured on the airport to provide stability for the Airport during the Covid-19 recovery period.

Along with the wider aviation sector, the Covid-19 pandemic ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BRIDGEPOINT means that the Airport has BANK BOROUGH COUNCIL CAPITAL LIMITED experienced a material adverse effect on its business. Asian Development Bank on the Council in Bridgepoint Capital (Nominees) financing of NAIA Terminal III at connection with the procurement Limited on the £145.5m acquisition The Airport is a vital strategic Manila Ninoy Aquino Airport of a strategic private sector of Leeds Bradford International infrastructure asset for the City partner for the operation and Airport from five West Yorkshire Region, supporting an estimated long-term development of councils 6,000 local jobs, providing £250m Blackpool Airport per annum in economic impact and is an important facility for City Region residents. AVIATION REGULATION

LONDON LUTON BRITISH AIRPORTS DEPARTMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT LIMITED AUTHORITY PLC TRANSPORT AIRPORT London Luton Airport Limited British Airports Authority Plc UK Department for Transport on An international airport on its in relation to the passenger on discrete public law issues behalf of Airport Coordination liability to pay non-domestic rates growth incentives and related arising from the Competition Limited in drafting the Airport Slot arising from the development of amendments to the Concession Commission’s Quinquennial Allocation Regulations 2006 the airport estate Agreement Review

AIRPORT HSBC SLOVENIAN INTERNATIONAL COORDINATION LTD GOVERNMENT AIRPORT Airport Coordination Ltd in HSBC in relation to advice on Slovenian Government on An international airport relation to enabling the firm to contracts with several airports the development of a civilian on procuring and drafting gain an intimate understanding of worldwide to brand airside transport airport at an ex NATO agreements for the use of retail the EC Slot Regulation departure and arrival spaces, base. Governance issues were concessions on the airport including airbridges, transit buses particularly complex as much of and gates the cost of the airport was derived from European Cohesion Funds COMMERCIAL AVIATION

BRITISH REGIONAL HIGHLANDS AND HIGHLANDS AND AIRWAYS AIRPORT ISLANDS AIRPORTS ISLAND AIRPORTS British Airways on the A regional airport on the HIAL on a variety of commercial HIAL on developing the incorporation of a separate cargo application of the law of State contracts including ground collaboration arrangements handling division and the transfer aid to the instigation of new handling agreements and airline between fifteen undertakings of relevant employees into that transatlantic routes and to the service contracts involved in the development entity development and operation of of a sustainable aviation test airside and off-site infrastructure environment

BRITISH INTERNATIONAL HIGHLANDS AND A NUMBER OF AIRWAYS AIRPORT ISLANDS AIRPORTS AIRPORT CLIENTS British Airways on a major An international airport on the HIAL on the procurement process Providing data protection technological change process application of competition law to and ancillary works streams compliance and freedom of designed to significantly upgrade its surface access arrangements for industry leading project to information advice to a number British Airways’ call centre look at centralising air traffic of airport clients, including relating to high profile information experience control for nine airports to a disclosures in the context of their single off site central hub in relationships with public and Inverness government bodies COMMERCIAL AVIATION

JET2.COM MYTRAVEL Jet2.com on their commercial MyTravel in its joint venture agreement and ground handling with FLS Aerospace for aircraft arrangements with Avignon maintenance and repair at airport and ensuring that the deal Manchester Airport is state aid compliant CASE STUDY BRITISH AIRWAYS

AG advised British Airways on the procurement, negotiation and outsourcing of its inflight catering at London Heathrow and London Gatwick airports. The project involved the exit of the long-standing catering providers at both airports and a complex transition to two new providers, as well as the adoption of a completely new commercial model for inflight catering services.

The AG team ran two simultaneous contract negotiation procedures with the selected bidders at each airport over a very short time period. BRITISH BRITISH AIRWAYS AIRWAYS As well as leading contract negotiations, the AG team helped to contract an innovative commercial model for the catering British Airways on the outsourcing British Airways on the outsourcing services which involved a complex risk/reward mechanism. We of its catering services at its main of its call centres to a major also advised British Airways on ensuring that it had suitable hub, London Heathrow, together provider of outsourced call transition arrangements in place between the three existing with advice on exiting previous centres at a new South African site suppliers and the two incoming suppliers. arrangements ABOUT AG

OUR CORE SECTORS FACTS AND FIGURES & SERVICE LINES 1167 255 LAWYERS PARTNERS

ENERGY & RETAIL & UTILITIES CONSUMER 200+ 14 JURISDICTIONS OFFICES in which we have advised clients in the 6 UK last 3 years London, Leeds, Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen 8 OVERSEAS Hamburg, Paris, Doha, Muscat, Dubai, FINANCIAL TRANSPORT 21 Singapore, Hong Kong and a strategic SERVICES alliance with Hashidate in Tokyo NATIONALITIES Capabilities to speak over 36 languages 45 40+ CSR INITIATIVES We are active in 45 different Corporate HEALTH REAL ESTATE FTSE 100 CLIENTS Social Responsibility initiatives focused Including Diageo, DfT, National Grid, on ‘Unlocking Young Potential’ SSE, BP, GSK, Sainsbury’s, Barclays and Standard Life Working from 14 offices around the world, WE WORK WHERE we’ve acted in 94 countries for our clients in the last three years. You can rely on us OUR CLIENTS NEED wherever you need an imaginative legal US TO WORK solution to a pivotal business problem.

Tokyo Through a formal alliance with Hashidate Law Office

Aberdeen Edinburgh Glasgow Muscat Leeds London Manchester Dubai Paris Where we’ve supported clients in the last three years Doha Hamburg Hong Kong

Singapore CONTACTS

PAUL HIRST MARK MOLYNEUX Partner, Infrastructure Projects and Divisional Managing Partner, Dispute Resolution Co-head of Transport +44 (0)7841 981492 +44 (0)7595 777 949 [email protected] [email protected]

ANNA HEATON ALISON NEWTON Partner, Real Estate and Co-head of Transport Partner, Co-head of Real Estate Sector +44 (0)7712 188960 +44 (0)7775 804728 [email protected] [email protected]

ANDREW SMITH ANDREW FINFER Partner, Commercial Aviation Legal Director, Commercial +44 (0)7778 417764 +44 (0)7595 192796 [email protected] [email protected]

RONA BAR-ISAAC LAUREN PAYNE Partner, Competition Managing Associate, Commercial Aviation +44 (0)7725 734167 +44 (0)7841 005002 [email protected] [email protected]

DAVID KIRCHIN WILLIAM SMITH Partner, Corporate Finance and Head of Scotland Managing Associate, Airport Infrastructure +44 (0)7990 548099 +44 (0)7595 085736 [email protected] [email protected]

DAVID SHAW Partner, Construction +44 (0)7725 352746 [email protected] PROBLEMS. POSSIBILITIES. COMPLEXITY. CLARITY. OBSTACLES. OPPORTUNITIES. THE DIFFERENCE IS IMAGINATION.

© Addleshaw Goddard LLP. This document is for general information only and is correct as at the publication date. It is not legal advice, and Addleshaw Goddard assumes no duty of care or liability to any party in respect of its content. Addleshaw Goddard is an international legal practice carried on by Addleshaw Goddard LLP and its affiliated undertakings – please refer to the Legal Notices section of our website for country-specific regulatory information.

For further information, including about how we process your personal data, please consult our website www.addleshawgoddard.com or www.aglaw.com.

20556