I had never really stopped to analyse why this should be so and certainly never attempted to write an expos of such feelings. Let me try to impart some of this enthusiasm to you and lighten the load with a few anecdotal stories from my career. When one considers the size of the industry, the number of lawyers specialising in aviation is remarkably small. It feels like being a member of a small club.
Familiar faces come round time and again.
Within this club of lawyers there are three particular branches of specialisation. For my money, what makes for a stimulating career is to combine elements from all three, indeed, an understanding of one specialisation can help the performance of another. One of the first things that struck me about aircraft finance when I first started doing transactions back in the 1980's was just how international the whole business is. An airline in one country could be looking to finance arrangers in another country to structure a transaction involving investors in yet another country and lenders in still another. My first of these involved financing an aircraft in Japan, Germany and UK as part of the one scheme.