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Managing Partner at the firm Thatcher A. Stone, Esquire
Areas of Practice
Airline Passenger Rights(40%, 10); Aviation(12%, 3); Banking; Bumping Claims(20%, 5); Denied Boarding Claims(20%, 5); Equipment Finance and Leasing; Lost Baggage Claims(7%, 2); Structured Finance; Secured Lending; Public and Private Debt Offerings; International Financings; Export Credit Guarantees; Credit Insurance(1%, 1); Workouts; Restructurings
Admitted
1983, New York and U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York; 2008, U.S. District Court, Eastern District New York
Law School
University of Virginia, J.D., 1982
College
University of Virginia, B.A., with distinction, 1978
Membership
New York State, American (Member: Business Law Section; Subcommittee on Aircraft Financing; Forum Committee on Air and Space Law) and International (Member, Committee on Aviation) Bar Associations; Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Member, Aviation Committee, 2001-2002).
Biography
Listed, Who's Who in American law, IFLR's Guide to the World's Leading Aviation Lawyers. Author: "Asset-Based Aircraft Finance - The Legal Regime for Repossessions," Guide to Aviation Lawyers (Euromoney 2000); "In Flight Between Geneva and Rome: Abandoning Choice of Law Systems for Substantive Legal Principles in International Aircraft Finance," 20 U. Penn Jnl. Of Int'l Econ. Law 487 (Fall 1999); Uniform Commercial Code-Secured Transactions, in "Negotiating Business Transactions," John Wiley & Sons, 1998 (Mark Senn Editor); "Geneva Convention Issues," Commercial Aviation Report No. 102 (December 1993); "Long Term Aircraft Financings and the Export-Import Bank of the U.S.," in 1993 Guide to Export Credits for Aircraft Finance, (Euromoney 1993); "Explaining LASU," Commercial Aviation Report, No. 66 (June 1992); "Aircraft Lessors Protected Continental Overturned and Pan Am Upheld on Appeal," Equipment Leasing Newsletter, Volume X, No. 8 (August 1991); "Sales and Leaseback Transactions for Aircraft Get Conflicting Rulings on Section 1110 Protection," the Bankruptcy Strategist, Volume VIII, No. 5 (March 1991); Board of Editors, Equipment Leasing Newsletter (April 1991-2008). Lecturer, Aviation Law, University of Virginia Law School, 2003-2008. Visiting Professor, Austral University School of Law, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2001.
Languages: Spanish
Reported Cases
Barclays Bank of NY v. Saypol, 31 B.R. 796 (Bkrptcy, 1983); Stone v. Continental Airlines, 2005 N.Y. Misc. Lexis 5514 (N.Y, City Court of Claims 2005).
Special Agencies
U.S. Department of Transportation; Federal Aviation Administration; Securities and Exchange Commission.
Born
Boston, Massachusetts, August 9, 1955
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