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Provided by Le V Lam
Corporate, Commercial Transactions & Outsourcing
e V. Lam is a member of Winstead’s Airlines Industry Group and its Corporate, Commercial Transactions & Outsourcing Practice Group. His practice is devoted to airline representation with specific focus on finance and capital markets transactions. During his career as a private practitioner and as in-house counsel of a global U.S. airline where he initially served as associate general counsel and then as deputy general counsel of the corporate legal department, Le has handled over $75 billion of financings and other transactions for various airlines. He has been involved in numerous pioneering liquidity raises in the aviation industry, including all manner of debt and equity capital market transactions (such as registered and private offerings of unsecured high-yield bonds, secured bonds, common stock, convertible notes and enhanced equipment pass through certificates (EETCs)), private and syndicated loans (such as bi-lateral aircraft mortgages and syndicated term loans and revolving loans secured by various airline equipment and non-equipment assets) and leasing transactions (such as sale-leasebacks, operating leases and cross-border leases, including Japanese operating leases (JOLs) with and without call options (JOLCOs)).
Beyond financings, Le has experience representing airlines in various commercial transactions, including in negotiations with major aircraft manufacturers and in restructurings of aircraft and other fleet-related matters in bankruptcy, as well as corporate governance and investor relations matters and public company filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Le has been recognized by Chambers USA for Aviation Finance. He also has been recommended by The Legal 500 US for Asset Finance and Leasing and has been recognized as a “Rising Star” and shortlisted for Best in Aviation by Expert Guides (Euromoney Legal). Prior to his legal career, Le worked at a Big 4 public accounting firm as a consultant in its forensics and litigation practice group.
State Bar of New York
International Society of Transport Aircraft Trading (ISTAT)
Aviation Finance, Chambers USA Guide to America, Chambers & Partners Publishing, 2017, 2024-2025
Asset Finance and Leasing, The Legal 500 US (2016)
Euromoney’s Expert Guides (Rising Stars), 2017
Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (2014 Fellow)
Cantonese
University of California at Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law
J.D., summa cum laude
2004
University of California at Berkeley
B.A., Economics
1998
Provided by Chambers
Provided by Chambers
Le is an expert in his field and a great resource for thinking through complex and new issues.
He is excellent with airline industries generally, and in tying financings to the unique characteristics of running an airline. He understands how hard it is to actually make things happen operationally.
Le Lam is a trusted adviser and partner with a comprehensive knowledge of the market.
Le is an expert in his field and a great resource for thinking through complex and new issues.
He is excellent with airline industries generally, and in tying financings to the unique characteristics of running an airline. He understands how hard it is to actually make things happen operationally.
Le Lam is a trusted adviser and partner with a comprehensive knowledge of the market.