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Bi-Lingual Banking & Finance Lawyer, Qatar, 3 Years+ PQE -3/02/2012
Our client is looking for a Bi-Lingual (English/Arabic) Junior-mid level lawyer ( 3 Years+ PQE) to join the Banking and Finance team in their office in Doha. The criteria is very specific and only candidates that match the requirements will be considered. The work is solely non-contentious dealing with a mix of transactional, advisory, general banking and finance regulatory work.


Wings Abadi ATR 72-500 financing

- $0.00 m
  • Entry date - Thursday, 4 March 2010
  • Jurisdiction - Singapore
  • Practice - Finance
  • Financing of three ATR 72-500 aircraft for PT Wings Abadi, the turboprop operator in the Lion Air group

  • Firm - Stephenson Harwood
  • Client - PT Wings Abadi
  • Lead Lawyers - Paul Ng, Richard Parsons
  • Role -


Deal summary

  • Financing of three ATR 72-500 aircraft for PT Wings Abadi, the turboprop operator in the Lion Air group

  • Stephenson Harwood also advised Wings on the aircraft order.

  • Structured as an operating lease transaction to optimise the taxation treatment of the transaction for Wings and Lion,

    whilst retaining the key features and benefits of a finance lease transaction.  First deal to be structured this way in Indonesia.

  • Financing provided by BNP Paribas and supported by COFACE and SACE,

  • Stephenson Harwood is longstanding counsel to Lion Air Group. Relationship enabled consistency between the terms if this transaction and Lion’s other aircraft financing transactions.



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