Tom Jackson

Of Counsel

tomjackson@gibsondunn.com
T: +44 20 7071 4998
London

Tom is an Of Counsel in the London office of Gibson Dunn and a member of the Transportation and Space Group.

Tom has experience acting for financiers, equity investors, leasing companies and airlines on a variety of asset leasing and financing transactions involving aircraft, ships, oil rigs and other moveable equipment.

Tom has previously spent nine months seconded to the legal department of a major aircraft leasing company and six months seconded to the legal department of an international investment bank.

Tom is ranked as an ‘Associate to Watch’ by Chambers UK 2024, and as a ‘Rising Star’ by Legal 500 UK 2024. Tom was also named as a ‘Rising Star’ in Airfinance Journal's “Guide to Aviation Lawyers 2022”, which recognizes the most promising legal associates working in aviation finance.

Recent transactions on which Tom has acted include: *

• Deutsche Bank in connection with a limited recourse facility for a leading aircraft lessor, secured by a portfolio of aircraft and engines.

• volofin in connection with four limited recourse loan facilities with ACS, secured by portfolios of aircraft and engines.

• Castlelake in connection two aircraft portfolio acquisitions.

• MUFG and Hamburg Commercial Bank in connection with the financing for Asterion Industrial Partners of two widebody aircraft.

• The aviation investments team of a global investment firm in connection with the refinancing of their multiple existing secured aircraft facilities and its replacement with a single multi-faceted, first-in-kind secured warehouse facility.

• SNB Capital (formerly NCB Capital) and Dara Aviation Finance Limited in relation to the acquisition and financing of a portfolio of 19 commercial aircraft from AerCap.

• Lenders to Falko (DB / Morgan Stanley / Citi) in connection with several warehouse facilities.

• Abelo in connection with the refinancing of their warehouse facility.

• volofin in connection with a credit facility to finance the conversion of passenger aircraft into freighter configuration.

• Various leasing companies in connection with the sanctions and insurance related-issues stemming from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

• AFIC Insurers in connection with multiple AFIC-insured secured financings.

• OneWeb in connection with a $94 million secured term loan facility from the Export-Import Bank of India, to partially finance expenditures associated with two launch services of 36 satellites.

• Citibank in connection with its participation in an EXIM backed loan to be advanced to KLM for the acquisition of a Boeing Model 787-10 Aircraft.

• Ad hoc committee of bondholders in connection with the restructuring of NAC.

• Ad hoc committee of TLB lenders to Seadrill Partners as maritime counsel in connection with its Chapter XI proceedings.

• Various aircraft financiers and leasing companies in connection with the fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic.

• Multiple secured parties in connection with financed aircraft leased to Thai Airways.

• SMBC Aviation Capital on its purchase of Goshawk.

• Citibank and other financing banks with respect to a portfolio financing program of up to $2 billion made available to a subsidiary of Seaspan Corporation.

• Geoquip Marine in connection with the financing of their fleet of vessels and rigs.

*Some of these representations occurred prior to Tom’s association with Gibson Dunn.

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