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Torridon Linskaill Baker Botts London
Torridon Linskaill
Associate

Overview

Torridon Linskaill is a dual-qualified lawyer (England and Wales and New York), skilled in cross-border aviation, asset financing and other related transactional matters.

With a practice focused on pre- and post-delivery aircraft and engine financing and leasing transactions, Torridon advises lessors, servicers, financial institutions, arrangers and operators across a variety of transactions including single asset and portfolio sales and acquisitions, securitizations, sale-and-leasebacks, lease negotiations and deliveries, capital markets, operator and debt restructurings and general financings.

Admissions & Affiliations

  • Qualified Solicitor, England & Wales, 2024
  • New York State Bar

Education

  • Professional Legal Practice, University of Edinburgh 2021
  • Master of Laws, Air & Space Law, McGill University 2019
  • Graduate Diploma in Law, BPP University 2018
  • Bachelor of Laws, Scots Law, University of Glasgow 2017
    Honours

Experience

  • Acting for a leading Middle Eastern aircraft lessor in the portfolio purchase of eight aircraft.
  • Acting for a leading Middle Eastern aircraft lessor in the sale of an Airbus A320 aircraft to a European operator.
  • Acting for the servicer in an aircraft asset-backed securitization relating to a portfolio of 17 narrow-body aircraft.
  • Acting for a Middle Eastern bank in the M&A purchase of two 787-9 aircraft.
  • Acting for a global aircraft leasing company in a multi-aircraft portfolio sale featuring operators in the Americas, Europe and Asia.
  • Acting for a Middle Eastern fund in the establishment of its leasing platform.
  • Acting for an Irish lessor in the financing and securitization of a portfolio of aircraft with a syndicate of international banks.
  • Acting for a large European operator in the Balthazar financing and delivery of several Airbus NEO aircraft.
  • Acting for an alternative lender in the group financing of four Boeing 767-300 aircraft undergoing freighter conversions.
  • Acting for a global lessor in the release and sale of several ECA financed Airbus aircraft.
  • Acting for the European export credit agencies in connection with the security release and transfer of a portfolio of Airbus aircraft to a Latin American operator.
  • Acting for European operator in relation to various financings and lease novations.
  • Assisting a gulf operator in the lease novation of five 737-900ER aircraft.