Robert Gilbert is a member of the firm’s Transportation Finance team with over 20 years of experience representing clients in transportation finance matters. Mr. Gilbert advises export-credit agencies, lessors, commercial and investment banks and others in matters including sales and purchases of new and used commercial aircraft, cross-border aircraft operating and finance leases, registration and transfer of aircraft mortgages and similar transactions for spare aircraft engines, corporate jets, rolling stock and vessels. Mr. Gilbert has represented US and European export credit agencies in numerous structured finance transactions with airlines in Korea.
Mr. Gilbert also has extensive experience in a wide range of cross-border investment and financing transactions, including the licensing of life and non-life insurers in Korea, including the establishment or acquisition of local branches and subsidiaries, and operations. He also remains active in financial litigation, particularly relating to disputes under letters of credit, and in certain US defense contracting disputes.
Mr. Gilbert has served on the Foreign Investor Advisory Council to the Mayor of Seoul and the Korean Advisory Council to the Commander, US Forces Korea and has been recognized as one of the world’s leading aviation lawyers in the 2008 through 2016 editions of “The International Who’s Who of Aviation Lawyers” and recognized as a “notable” lawyer in the International Financial Law Review (IFLR).
