Chris is a partner in Reed Smith’s global Transportation Industry Group, with a focus on aviation and broader asset and equipment finance.
Chris advises banks, private credit providers, equipment financiers, and both lessors and lessees on aircraft and other transportation finance matters, as well as asset-based lending, leasing, and leveraged and structured product financing.
In addition to his deep commercial and business aviation industry experience, Chris brings significant asset and equipment finance experience. He advises clients on leasing structures (operating, finance, synthetic, leveraged, TRAC, sale-leaseback, and equipment-as-a-service), with an emphasis on transportation, manufacturing, energy, cryptocurrency, and medical equipment acquisitions, dispositions, and financings. He also has extensive experience with the Export-Import Bank of the United States and foreign export credit agencies.
His experience also spans the railway sector, over-the-road vehicles, and yellow iron, where he has advised on significant transactions, noted by his Hall of Fame ranking in The Legal 500 USA for Rail and Road: Finance.
