Precision and safety – Aerospace

Aerospace

Lawy­ers at A/L/M Part­ners have work­ed on a varie­ty of cases for OEMs, sup­pli­ers and ser­vice pro­vi­ders in the aero­space indus­try. The sec­tor is deve­lo­p­ment-dri­ven and cha­rac­te­ri­sed by long-term rela­ti­onships; pre­cis­i­on and safe­ty are para­mount. All of this has an impact on the legal affairs of the industry.

Relevant matters include:

Repre­sen­ting an aero­space com­pa­ny in an ICC arbi­tra­ti­on about a joint ven­ture dis­pu­te, pro­gram delays, cost over­runs and alle­ged tech­ni­cal defects, resul­ting in sett­le­ment nego­tia­ti­ons with a new risk allo­ca­ti­on con­cept for the joint venture

Repre­sen­ting a lea­ding inter­na­tio­nal MRO pro­vi­der in a SIAC arbi­tra­ti­on based in Sin­ga­po­re against a Sou­the­ast Asi­an air­line to cla­im dama­ges for breach of contract

Advi­sing an aero­space com­pa­ny in nego­tia­ti­ons with a con­trac­ting aut­ho­ri­ty regar­ding sub­stan­ti­al pay­ment claims fol­lo­wing the ter­mi­na­ti­on of an exten­si­ve public pro­cu­re­ment program

Repre­sen­ting a lea­ding inter­na­tio­nal MRO pro­vi­der in a Sin­ga­po­re-based SIAC emer­gen­cy arbi­tra­ti­on against an Asi­an air­line about high-volu­me com­pe­ti­ti­on law claims

Repre­sen­ting a Euro­pean aero­space com­pa­ny in an ICC arbi­tra­ti­on based in Switz­er­land against an Afri­can air­line becau­se of con­trac­tu­al pay­ment claims

Repre­sen­ting an aero­space com­pa­ny against a mass action brought by share­hol­ders alle­ging brea­ches of ad-hoc dis­clo­sure duties fol­lo­wing ope­ra­tio­nal tech­ni­cal pro­blems and asso­cia­ted EBIT- and share pri­ce losses

Advi­sing an aero­space com­pa­ny on delays and signi­fi­cant cost over­runs in a major pro­cu­re­ment joint ven­ture due to tech­ni­cal issues cau­sed by tier‑1 suppliers

Advi­sing a Euro­pean aero­space group on the enforce­ment of con­trac­tu­al claims by way of liqui­da­ting the debtor’s air­craft, engi­nes and air­craft parts

Repre­sen­ting a lea­ding inter­na­tio­nal MRO pro­vi­der in a con­trac­tu­al dis­pu­te with a Scan­di­na­vi­an air­line and in the sett­le­ment of the dispute

Draf­ting of sup­p­ly con­tracts for an aero­space com­pa­ny in the con­text of spe­ci­fic pro­cu­re­ment pro­grams with sin­gle source suppliers