Richard M. Hakes Photo
Email
{{vCardForm.Header}}
{{vCardForm.Body}}
{{vCardForm.CaptchaError}}
{{vCardForm.DisplayMessage}}

Richard is Chair of Reed Smith’s Transportation Industry Group, co-head of the firm’s global aviation and aerospace practice, having established the practice, and a member of the firm’s Global Leadership Team. He is one of the leading asset finance lawyers globally, with a reputation for high profile and complex matters in aviation and shipping, and has been independently recognised as one of the leading lawyers in the UK.

He advises clients in relation to a broad range of aviation and shipping work, with a primary focus on the financing, leasing, trading, and repackaging of transportation assets, acting for clients across the whole spectrum and life cycle of shipping and aviation deals.

Credenciales

  • Nottingham Law School, 2005, LPC, Distinction
  • University of Warwick, 2004, LL.B.

  • Inglaterra y Gales
  • Irlanda

Premios y reconocimientos

  • Listed as a Leading Partner in The Legal 500 UK for Finance Transport finance and leasing, 2024-2025
  • Selected through peer review for inclusion in The Best Lawyers™ in the United Kingdom for Asset Finance Law, 2024-2025
  • Ranked in Chambers UK for UK-wide Asset Finance: Aviation Finance, 2022-2025
  • Law360 Rising Star, Transportation, 2019
  • Airline Economics 40 under 40 list, 2017 and 2019
  • Euromoney’s Guide to the World’s Leading Aviation Lawyers, 2013-2014, and 2017
  • Thomson Reuters, Rising Star, 2014-2015