A counsel in O’Melveny’s Corporate Finance and Aviation Groups, Patrick focuses primarily on cross-border aviation and corporate financing, structured financing and securitisation, syndicated and bilateral lending, capital markets, general corporate banking and governance, and aircraft leasing and trading opportunities, including representation of aircraft and engine leasing companies, trustees, banks, institutional investors and private equity funds.
Patrick trained at the Dublin headquarters of a leading international law firm and qualified into the Banking and Aviation Finance Groups. Before joining O’Melveny, he was Associate Vice President (Legal) at an aircraft lessor based in Dublin.
- Represented an Irish aircraft lessor on an airline administration in the APAC region in connection with the restructuring of three B737 lease agreements by way of amendment and restatement and the return of two A330 aircraft.
- Represented an Irish aircraft lessor on the lease of one A320 to an Indonesian lessee.
- Represented an Irish engineering company on a €147.5 million leveraged management buyout.
- Represented an Irish aircraft lessor on the lease of one A320 to an Austrian lessee and subsequent novation to a Maltese lessee.
- Represented an Irish lessor on the acquisition of an eight B737 aircraft portfolio from an Irish-based leasing company.
- Represented an Irish aircraft lessor on the sale of a four aircraft portfolio (two A320 aircraft, each aircraft on lease to an Indonesian lessee) and two B737 aircraft (each aircraft on lease to a US lessee) to a leasing company based in the US.
- Represented an Irish bank on a €2.5 billion sale of distressed residential mortgages to US private equity group.
- Represented an Irish aircraft lessor on an end of lease transition and naked sale of a two B737 aircraft portfolio to a leasing company based in the US.
- Represented an Irish aircraft lessor on the sale of a two B737 aircraft portfolio on lease to Chinese lessees to a leasing company based in China.
- Represented an Irish aircraft lessor on several Japanese operating leases with lessees in various jurisdictions.
- Represented a Luxembourg fund on a secured facility to an Irish medical products and services company and the company’s acquisition by a US multinational.
- Represented an Irish aircraft lessor in connection with a US$150 million unsecured revolving credit facility with a Japanese lender.
- Represented a US joint venture in connection with, (i) a US$750 million warehouse loan agreement, and (ii) an aircraft-backed securitisation and the issue of US$800 million asset backed securities to acquire a portfolio of nineteen aircraft. (Awarded “Overall Deal of the Year” by Aviation Economics and “Capital Markets Deal of the Year” by Airfinance Journal for 2016.)
- Represented a US multinational investment firm in connection with an aircraft-backed securitisation and the issue of US$250.8 million asset backed securities to acquire a portfolio of eighteen aircraft.
- Represented an international consortium on the acquisition, development of, and investment in, large commercial and residential property portfolios in the Dublin Docklands.
- Represented a US aircraft lessor in connection with an aircraft-backed securitisation and the issue of US$506.5 million asset backed securities to refinance a portfolio of nineteen aircraft and acquire an additional six aircraft.
- Represented a US aircraft lessor in connection with the issue of US$1.28 billion unsecured senior and junior notes and the listing of the notes on the official list of the Bermuda Stock Exchange.
- Represented an international syndicate of banks on a €500 million multicurrency revolving credit facility to a building materials company based in Ireland.
- Represented an Irish aircraft lessor in connection with an extension and upsize of its US$1.8 billion unsecured revolving credit facility with a syndicate of banks by way of amendment and restatement.
Admissions
- Solicitor, Law Society of England & Wales
- Solicitor, Law Society of Ireland
Education
- University College Dublin, B.B.L., 2012
- University of Minnesota Law School, International Exchange Program, 2010–2011
Honors & Awards
- Recognized as a “Rising Star” by The Legal 500 UK for Transport Finance and Leasing (2023)
- Recognized as a “Rising Star” by Airfinance Journal (2023)
Professional Activities
Member
- Co-Founder of the Aviation Legal Association (ALA)
- Task Forces Co-Chair at The Hague Court of Arbitration for Aviation
Publications
- The Hague Court of Arbitration for Aviation Continues to Soar (September 2023)
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