David B. Cohen is an associate in Hughes Hubbard’s Corporate Department, with a focus on commercial aircraft finance. His practice focuses on representing leasing companies, issuers, underwriters, lenders, private equity investors, and global airlines in connection with a variety of financing and other corporate transactions. He has worked on aviation transactions that have been named a “Deal of the Year” by Aviation Finance Journal.
Prior to joining Hughes Hubbard, David was an associate in the New York office of another large law firm.
Highlighted Matters
Representation of Griffin Global Asset Management in a senior unsecured notes offering and subsequent add-on totaling $700 million
Representation of Griffin Global Asset Management in connection with a $400 million senior unsecured notes offering
Representation of Griffin Global Asset Management and Bain Capital Special Situations in connection with the acquisition of 17 new technology Rolls-Royce Engines. This transaction was the Ishka Global Best European Deal 2023
Representation of Griffin Global Asset Management Holdings in connection with a three-year, $525 million unsecured revolving credit facility
Representation of Griffin Global Asset Management $1 billion senior unsecured notes offering
Representation of United Airlines in its $3 billion public offering of enhanced equipment trust certificates (EETCs). This transaction was named the 2020 “EETC Deal of the Year” by Airfinance Journal
Represented of Air Lease Corporation in a $527 million asset-backed securitization (ABS) that launched the aircraft leasing company’s Thunderbolt III platform, TBOLT III 2019-1
Representation of Griffin Global Asset Management LLC and Bain Capital Credit, L.P. in a five-year, $1 billion senior secured warehouse facility.
Representation of Citigroup Global Markets as sole structuring agent and lead arranger, as well as a syndicate of initial lenders, in a $350 million senior secured revolving warehouse facility with aircraft leasing company Deucalion Aviation and global investment firm SVP Global.
Representation of Sculptor Capital Management as asset manager in a $446 million aircraft asset-backed securitization (ABS) for GECAS, a world-leading aircraft lessor, to acquire 20 aircraft.
Representation of Orient Overseas International Ltd., a Hong Kong-based shipping line, in connection with the sale of the Long Beach Container Terminal in Southern California, one of the nation’s busiest port terminals, to a consortium led by Australia’s Macquarie Group for $1.78 billion.
Provided pro bono assistance to Fordham Law School’s National Center for Access to Justice in the creation of its recently published Consumer Debt Litigation Index
Representation of Hawaiian Airlines Inc. in connection with a $262 million offering of enhanced equipment trust certificates (EETCs) secured by eight Airbus aircraft
Representation of U.K-based global eyewear frames distributor Inspecs Group in its initial public offering (IPO) on the London Stock Exchange's (LSE) Alternative Investment Market
Representation of Bank of America as facility agent, structuring agent and joint lead arranger in a $300 million aircraft warehouse facility for a new joint venture leasing vehicle established by Elliot Management and SkyWorks Leasing, an aircraft management services company
