Russell Green

Practice Areas

Russell Green has a wide-ranging banking practice, with a particular focus on aviation and asset finance. His aviation clients include airlines, leasing companies, funds and banks and he has acted on a wide range of aviation finance products, including operating leases, sale and leasebacks, EETCs, JOLCOs, capital markets issuances, US and European export credit agency supported financing and PDP financing. Russell advises on other asset classes as well, particularly rail and shipping.

In recent years, Russell has been particularly involved in the firm's Africa Finance practice and has considerable experience in advising lenders to the telecoms, aviation and hotel sectors in a variety of African jurisdictions.

In addition, he advises banks and corporates on operational banking products and related regulatory matters, and in particular liquidity management and cash pooling and facilities provided in connection with clearing and settlement systems.

Russell has completed secondments with Barclays and, more recently, with the restructuring team at Lloyds Banking Group, where he worked on the management and disposal of the bank's portfolio of shipping assets. Russell has also spent six months on secondment to the firm's Tokyo office and speaks Japanese proficiently.

Languages Spoken

English, Japanese

Education