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David B. Cohen

New York City

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David B. Cohen is an associate in Hughes Hubbard’s Corporate Department, with a focus on commercial aircraft finance.  His practice focuses on representing leasing companies, issuers, underwriters, lenders, private equity investors, and global airlines in connection with a variety of financing and other corporate transactions.  He has worked on aviation transactions that have been named a “Deal of the Year” by Aviation Finance Journal.

Prior to joining Hughes Hubbard, David was an associate in the New York office of another large law firm.

Highlighted Matters

  • Representation of Griffin Global Asset Management in a senior unsecured notes offering and subsequent add-on totaling $700 million
  • Representation of Griffin Global Asset Management in connection with a $400 million senior unsecured notes offering
  • Representation of Griffin Global Asset Management and Bain Capital Special Situations in connection with the acquisition of 17 new technology Rolls-Royce Engines. This transaction was the Ishka Global Best European Deal 2023
  • Representation of Griffin Global Asset Management Holdings in connection with a three-year, $525 million unsecured revolving credit facility
  • Representation of Griffin Global Asset Management $1 billion senior unsecured notes offering
  • Representation of United Airlines in its $3 billion public offering of enhanced equipment trust certificates (EETCs). This transaction was named the 2020 “EETC Deal of the Year” by Airfinance Journal
  • Represented of Air Lease Corporation in a $527 million asset-backed securitization (ABS) that launched the aircraft leasing company’s Thunderbolt III platform, TBOLT III 2019-1
  • Representation of Griffin Global Asset Management LLC and Bain Capital Credit, L.P. in a five-year, $1 billion senior secured warehouse facility.
  • Representation of Citigroup Global Markets as sole structuring agent and lead arranger, as well as a syndicate of initial lenders, in a $350 million senior secured revolving warehouse facility with aircraft leasing company Deucalion Aviation and global investment firm SVP Global.
  • Representation of Sculptor Capital Management as asset manager in a $446 million aircraft asset-backed securitization (ABS) for GECAS, a world-leading aircraft lessor, to acquire 20 aircraft.
  • Representation of Orient Overseas International Ltd., a Hong Kong-based shipping line, in connection with the sale of the Long Beach Container Terminal in Southern California, one of the nation’s busiest port terminals, to a consortium led by Australia’s Macquarie Group for $1.78 billion.
  • Provided pro bono assistance to Fordham Law School’s National Center for Access to Justice in the creation of its recently published Consumer Debt Litigation Index
  • Representation of Hawaiian Airlines Inc. in connection with a $262 million offering of enhanced equipment trust certificates (EETCs) secured by eight Airbus aircraft
  • Representation of U.K-based global eyewear frames distributor Inspecs Group in its initial public offering (IPO) on the London Stock Exchange's (LSE) Alternative Investment Market
  • Representation of Bank of America as facility agent, structuring agent and joint lead arranger in a $300 million aircraft warehouse facility for a new joint venture leasing vehicle established by Elliot Management and SkyWorks Leasing, an aircraft management services company
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Firm Helps Griffin Push Warehouse Facility to $2 Billion
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Firm Wins Two Airfinance Journal Awards for 2021
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Hughes Hubbard Advises on $745M Aircraft Asset-Backed Notes Offering for Blackbird Capital II
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Firm Lands Two More Aviation ‘Deal of the Year’ Awards
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Firm Guides United Airlines in $10.75B Debt Financing, the Largest Ever
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Firm Reps Griffin JV in $1B First-of-Its-Kind Financing
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Firm Shortlisted for Two Honors in The Deal Awards Middle Market 2020
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Firm Advises Cenveo in Sale of Long-Run Label Assets
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Firm Guides Daimler in Acquisition of Self-Driving Technology Company Torc Robotics
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Education
  • Fordham University School of Law, J.D., 2016
  • Vanderbilt University, B.A., 2011
Bar Admissions
  • New York, 2017
Areas of Focus
Aviation
Corporate
Mergers & Acquisitions
Private Equity
Securities & Capital Markets

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