Partner
David Daws joined Blake Lapthorn in February
2011. David is a Finance lawyer specialising in the finance
of aircraft and one of the firm's representatives in the
L2B international aviation
group.
David has extensive experience in UK and
international tax based and non-tax based leasing, off balance
sheet operating leases and hybrid structures involving asset
support. He also has experience with multi jurisdictional
structures involving overseas tax havens and has established
captive groups and purpose trust structures incorporating third
party equity. David has established master finance facilities
for multiple commercial aircraft including facilities utilising
export credit support or finance. He currently acts for the
world’s leading global operating lessor and operator of commercial
helicopters with particular emphasis on the oil and gas sector but
also undertaking police, emergency medical support, search and
rescue work and other PFI work.
Another major area of David's work is employee
buyout transactions, and employee share ownership dealing with
employee trusts, share schemes and all kinds of ancillary advice in
relation to the constitution of the new company. He has
extensive experience of contracting out of services from public
bodies having worked on the privatisation of coal mines, transport
companies, government computer contractors and local authority
ancillary services as well as numerous private company
buy-outs.
