Transportation: Aviation: Transactional
USA Guide 2024 : USA - Nationwide
Band 2
About
Provided by Fafinski Mark & Johnson, P.A.
Fafinski Mark & Johnson is recognized nationally and internationally for its experience and insider knowledge of the aviation and transportation industries, and the firm’s attorneys utilize their unique insight and practical approach to help clients solve complex logistical and legal issues.
FMJ handles a wide variety of matters, ranging from cross-border aircraft sales, finance, and leasing to transportation operations, supply chain, operations, maintenance, and technical vendor support. As a few examples, the firm works on tax planning and deal structuring, ACMI operations, wet-leasing, and charter, international registry, maintenance service agreements and outsourcing, M&A, due diligence and all other transactional processes, bankruptcy workouts and restructuring, repossession and foreclosures, commercial disputes and litigation, FAA enforcement actions and regulatory compliance, aviation litigation, and much more.
Few firms can match the experience and insider knowledge of the aviation attorneys at FMJ, and the firm serves as trusted advisors to airlines, leasing companies, financial institutions, investment funds, asset traders, manufacturers, maintenance and repair facilities, and any other entities or individuals involved in the purchase, sale, leasing, financing, and maintenance of aircraft, engines, and parts. FMJ also provides its clients with the power of a big law firm and the agile, entrepreneurial spirit of a smaller firm – all at a compelling value.
Chambers Review
Fafinski Mark & Johnson, P.A. is a recommended boutique firm handling sophisticated transactions in the aviation sector. The group advises a wide array of clients, including financial institutions, airlines and individuals involved in the purchase, sale or financing of an aircraft. The firm is particularly proficient in counseling on bankruptcy matters in the space.
Kevin Johnson is a key contact based in Minnesota.
Work Highlights
- Fafinski Mark & Johnson, P.A. represented Cross Ocean Partners in acquiring five Airbus A321 aircraft from five separate sellers with closings in Europe and the US.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"The team is extremely timely in their responses."
"Fafinski Mark & Johnson has a solid team who are easy to work with and are very commercial."
"The team is extremely timely in their responses."
"Fafinski Mark & Johnson has a solid team who are easy to work with and are very commercial."
Members
Provided by Fafinski Mark & Johnson, P.A.
Anna Swiecichowski
Bradley Hutter
James Gladen, III
Head of Department
Kristina Keppeler
Nathan Haynor
Robert Fafinski, Jr.
Industries
Provided by Fafinski Mark & Johnson, P.A.
Aviation Litigation
Bankruptcy
Commercial Aviation
Corporate Aviation
Finance, Lending, and Leasing
Mergers and Acquisition
Transportation and Logistics