Oliver, W. B. Ross Senior Registered Foreign Lawyer
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Oliver, W. B. Ross Senior Registered Foreign Lawyer Practice Area: • Freightliner Limited – advised on a service agreement with • Gulfstream G450, Gulfstream G200, Hawker 900 XP – • Responsible for financing one Boeing 747-200 aircraft for • Advised the Ghanaian Government on the privatisation of Railtrack Haulage, negotiated and closed another. Advised Acquisition, Acceptance and Management and financing Air Lanka ($32mm), advised on the financing of two Ashanti Gold Fields Corporation. Banking & Finance, Corporate Finance on locomotive leasing arrangements with Porterbrook for substantial Russian and Ukrainian clients Boeing 737-200 aircraft for Dominicana de Aviacion • Negotiated and completed tax-based Deep Discount • Lan Chile S.A. – and various subsidiaries and associated • Landesbank Schleswig-Holstein Girozentrale – €80mm ($30mm), five Lockheed L-1011’s for Royal Jordanian Bonds with Kleinwort Benson ($80mm) and Barclays Bank companies. Negotiated and closed a large number of revolving liquidity facility with 12 month Term-out to ($175mm), four Boeing 727’s for Northwest Airlines ($300mm). Oliver was admitted to the Bar in London in 1975. He joined the Publications and Seminars: aircraft and engine transactions with GECAS, Icon support a commercial paper programme for Angel Trains ($40mm), financing and securitization of four Boeing 727 firm in 2015. Listed in the Euromoney Guide to the World’s Leading Aviation corporation, European Capital Group, AerGo, ResidCo Ltd. aircraft for Ethiopian Airlines, one Lockheed C100 for Trans Property Finance Lawyers. Delivered seminars and lectures internally on cross Inc., Florida West Inc. • Erste Bank (London) – Advice in connection with the Afrique, a DC10-30 for Nigerian Airways ($70mm), in • Established a substantial book of limited and non-recourse Oliver has more than thirty years experience as a banker and border finance and the law of Credit and Security. • Dart Group PLC – advised on and negotiated A300 administration of Air Outré-Mer including the repossession addition to participation in a large number of third party property transactions ($400mm) including: Hill of lawyer specialising in asset, project and structured finance. Most freighter conversions with BAe Systems (British Aerospace) of one MacDonnell Douglas DC-10 transactions. Rubislaw - Conoco/BP/KPMG building Aberdeen of his transactions have been cross border and multi Completed Transactions: and DASA • ABN Amro Bank (Sweden) – Secured Loan Facility for the • Set up BBL’s tax based aircraft financing activities in (£30mm); Cruhouse Developments – Jardine Insurance jurisdictional. As Legal Counsel: • Skynet Asia and Nisshoo Iwai – advised in litigation acquisition of two ATP aircraft for British World Airlines Ireland and within one year achieved the largest “S.84” tax Building, Crutched Friars, London (£72mm); British • Commercial against European Capital Group in connection with the • ABB Credit Finans AB (Publ) – Secured Loan Facility for the driven portfolio typically achieving returns of 2.75% p.a. Telecom building – Bridgecirc Developments, Cambridge Oliver holds postgraduate degrees in Business Administration • Apollo Aviation – Acquisition of 2 B737-800 aircraft and 1 leasing of two Boeing 737 aircraft financing of four Boeing 737 aircraft for European Aviation on aircraft financing of around $180mm. Personally Circus, London (£80mm); Picadilly Properties, Manchester (INSEAD) and Commercial Law (University College London) and Airbus A321-200 • KPMG – advised on numerous aircraft and engine sale Limited; Secured Loan Facility for the financing of two ATP responsible for the financing of a Boeing 747 for KLM Air – Commercial property and shopping mall (£10mm); Point has held senior general management positions responsible for • Virgin Atlantic Airways – 4 x Airbus A330-300 and 6 agreements and transfers in connection with the aircraft for British World Airlines Charters ($36mm) a Boeing 737 for Britannia Airways West Developments, formerly British Airways Terminal specialised finance teams and international business Airbus A330-300 aircraft in two separate and distinct administration of Japan Leasing Inc. Closed two sales of • Christiania Bank (Norway) – negotiated and closed sale of ($23mm) BAe 146 for TNT ($22mm) Airbus A300 for Air Cromwell Road (£95mm); Verulam Building complex, City development. Following his spell working for banks he returned structures transactions ($2Bn) aircraft operated by Icelandair, the sale of an Airbus A320 two Fokker F50 aircraft following long work-out Inter ($30mm) and a Boeing 767 for QANTAS ($45mm). (£35mm). to practise as a solicitor and joined premier law firms in the City • A319 Business Jet acquisition for Chinese high net worth operated by Airtours, and the sale of two P&W JT9D • Icon Capital Corporation – Secured Loan Facility for the • Substantial loan participation in the working capital facility of London. individual including building and outfitting engines and two CF6 engines, in each case operated by acquisition of two Boeing 767 aircraft to be operated by for Guinness Peat Aviation and leader of special s.84 tax • Global Express XRS financing for Chinese high net worth Virgin Atlantic. SAS financing group for the syndicate. Legal Specialisations: individual • British Regional Airlines Limited (British Airways) – • Aviation Capital Group Inc. – Securitisation programme • Managed the attempted rescue of Zambian Airlines Ltd. • AeroSur S.A. – Operating lease of one Boeing 747-400 for General private practice specialising in commercial law, negotiated and closed financing of 12 spare engines, sale relating to 30 aircraft transactions in 8 jurisdictions and responsible for the repossession and sale of two this Bolivian commercial operator international trade and commodities and public international of two PBN Islander aircraft and advised on a number of • Qatar Islamic Bank S.A.Q. – negotiated and closed sale of Boeing 737’s and two ATR 42 aircraft. • Virgin Atlantic Airways – Preparation of the suite of law. other transactions Boeing 737-300 aircraft standard template GTA and other agreements governing • Aviation Capital Group – advised on the financing and • Sanwa Business Credit Corporation – advised on a large Project Finance the supply of goods and services to a particular airline Professional Qualifications: leasing of a B757 aircraft operated by Britannia Airways number of aircraft finance transactions • Advised Gatwick handling and Intercontinental Container • Japan Leasing Corporation – Advising on and the and the sale and lease back to Wells Fargo Bank of one Transport Co-ordination on the setting up of AFGO to • Called to the Bar, Inner Temple - 1975 negotiation of the financing of two Rolls Royce Trent 556- Airbus A320 to be leased to TACA and subleased to Lineas Export Finance manage all ground cargo operations at Kotoka A2 engines ($21m) Aereas Costarricenses and Trans American Airlines • TACA International Airlines – negotiated and closed Export International Airport, Accra, Ghana. Education: • Target Marine – Sale and purchase of 8 bulk carriers • US Airways – Advised on Regional Selective Assistance Credit Agency financing of nine Airbus A320 aircraft • Completed the financing of Swaziland Breweries. • College of Law, London (Bar Parts I and II, 1975) ($640mm) by a major international Greek shipping trader Grants and other major municipal grants. Frequent advice ($400mm) with a “mismatch loan” facility – one of the first • Completed the financing of the mobile infrastructure of • INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France and operator to a US operator on regulatory, international public law and commercial mismatch loans to be completed and this transaction Swaziland Telecommunications. • Lavinia Corporation (subsidiary of a major international (MBA (International Finance and International Marketing – matters effectively laid down the rules for such structures • Advised Minproc Pty. on the establishment of a Greek shipping operator) – Advised on the commercial Deans List, 1982) • Lan Chile S.A. – advised on the purchase of 30 Airbus bio-leaching extraction project in Ghana. implications of Falkland Islands corporation tax and the • University College, London University, London Corporate Finance A320 aircraft and the implications of an ECA mismatch • Negotiated and closed loan facility for the financing of the implications of payments on account of tax in relation to a • Deutsche Lufthansa A.G. – extensive due diligence in loan ($1.2bn) Old Village (leisure development) for Montpellier Group at (LL.M. (International Finance (Merit), Credit & Security, Air substantial bunkering operation connection with the acquisition by Lufthansa of a Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal ($15mm). Law and Space Law, 1998) • Hawker Beechcraft UK – Corporate work including advice shareholding in British Midland As Banker / Financier: on regulatory provisions relating to occupation of airside • Lagardere S.A. – extensive due diligence (with Klein • Aviation Finance Corporate Finance Language: locations Goddard, Paris) on Airbus industrie in connection with the • Founded BBL Aviation S.A. in Paris to centralise global air • Founded BBL Finance Ireland Limited and BBL Financial English, French and Spanish • Acquisition of a new Agusta AW109 Grand for UK private acquisition by Matra (Lagardere subsidiary) of Aerospatiale finance activities for the Banque Bruxelles Lambert S.A. Services Ltd. in the International Financial Services Centre, client S.A. • Founded Banque Bruxelles Lambert’s joint venture, Dublin.