Legal services

Tender description

Department for International Trade (DIT), on behalf of UK Export Finance (UKEF) as contracting authority, intends to put in place a panel for the provision of services of external legal counsel to advise in relation to the financial support that UKEF provides to the aerospace and defence sector. In general terms, advice will relate to transactions for the financing of: — airbus aircraft where legal counsel is not otherwise procured from a separate panel established jointly by UKEF and the French and German Export Credit Agencies; — aircraft produced by other manufacturers (e.g., Boeing); and — aircraft engines and other aerospace assets and services. Including restructuring and post-issue work relating to such transactions. Key specialisms are likely to include the following: — aviation finance (including the financing of Airbus and Boeing commercial jets, Roll-Royce (and other) aircraft engines and other aerospace assets and exports); — Export Credit Agency (ECA) financing; — capital markets, derivative and hedging; — sanctions and financial regulation; — Islamic finance; — international law and UKEF's statutory framework as they relate aircraft financing; — advice on all stages of export finance transactions; — remedial/financial distress events; — dispute resolution; — advice on the domestic law of different jurisdictions in the context of UKEF support for the aerospace and defence sector and/or actual or potential disputes.