IN THIS INDUSTRY
Transportation
Schiff Hardin represents a range of clients in the transportation industry, from railroads and railroad locomotive rebuilders and industry suppliers, to aircraft component parts manufacturers, and high-tech companies related to the aerospace industry. We also represent financial institutions, lenders, lessors and lessees, and energy companies and suppliers doing business with the transportation industry.
Our attorneys have been involved in the preparation of transportation contracts for energy clients, represented aircraft component parts manufacturers in financial transactions, and successfully tried to judgment an aircraft crash case against the United States.
Services Schiff Hardin provides our transportation industry clients include:
- Railcar acquisitions and leasing
- Railroad operating and service agreements
- Aircraft financing and leasing
- Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) maintenance regulation
- Major litigation involving aircraft
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Labor and employment counseling and litigation
- Employee benefits and executive compensation plans and compliance
- Trademarks and copyrights
- Land use and rights-of-way
- Real estate transactions
- Change-in-control arbitrations
- Initial public offerings and other offerings of debt and equity
- Securities compliance
- Facilities construction
- Transportation contracts for coal
- Environmental compliance, permitting and litigation


