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Neha Arora

Senior Associate

Contact
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP
Cannon Place
78 Cannon Street
London
EC4N 6AF
United Kingdom
Languages English, Hindi

Neha Arora is a Senior Associate in the Asset Finance Department specialising in Aircraft Finance. She has advised major international lenders, lessors and operators (particularly airlines) on a wide range of cross-border asset-backed transactions involving new and used commercial aircraft. She has experience in commercial debt financings, operating leasing, individual asset and portfolio sales and purchases and restructurings.

She previously worked in the structured and asset finance department of a magic circle firm in London, as well as in the banking department of their Moscow office. She has also undertaken a client secondment to the legal department of a major aircraft finance lender. Although primarily focused on aircraft finance and leasing, she also has experience in ship finance matters.

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Relevant experience

  • DVB, BNP Paribas, BTMU and other leading financial institutions on multiple financings of new and used aircraft for large operating leasing companies.
  • Iberia on a range of transactions such as sale and leasebacks, subleases, restructurings and novations.
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Education

  • 2009 – Legal Practice Course, College of Law, London
  • 2008 – BA, Jurisprudence, The University of Oxford, Oxford
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24/11/2020
Aircraft finance and leasing in the pandemic and beyond - Moving out of...
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought existential threats to the entire aviation ecosystem and has required considerable creativity, flexibility and commercial partnership between in­dustry par­ti­cipants...
03/11/2020
Come and get it! The meaning of “give possession” under the Cape Town Convention 
The Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia has become the first appellate court among ratifying countries to look directly at the meaning of “give possession” and “giving possession of the...
07/07/2020
The Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 and Aircraft Finance –...
The UK has introduced a new restructuring tool, the Restructuring Plan, which when coupled with other provisions of the new law creates the possibility of the management of a company in financial difficulty...
02/07/2020
The Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 and Aircraft Finance –...
Insolvency termination clauses in Supply Contracts What are the potential implications of the new measures in relation to contracts for the supply of goods or services set out in the Corporate Insolvency...
29/06/2020
The Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 and Aircraft Finance –...
The new moratorium regime What are the potential implications of the new moratorium regime set out in the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 (the “Act”) for aircraft lenders, lessors and...
11/03/2020
COVID-19 Challenges for the Aircraft Leasing Industry
The outbreak of COVID-19 has caused a very dramatic drop in airline passenger numbers, particularly to areas identified as having many cases. The dramatic reduction in passenger numbers represents a profound...