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Aerospace & Defense
Squire Sanders brings the right mix of aerospace and defense industry experience and cross-border business knowledge to support your organization everywhere it needs to be. Our aerospace and defense industry client list includes many of the most prominent and well-known global companies. We also represent many smaller companies and other organizations that may be less well-know, but are equally important to us. We understand the challenges of operating in this industry’s global market, and we invite you to make use of our resources, sponsored events and industry knowledge to convert your challenges into opportunities to design a competitive advantage for your organization.
Industry Breadth
- Aerospace – We represent aerospace contractors at all tiers, from final aircraft and spacecraft companies to subsystems, assembly, components, parts and material manufacturers supporting the aerospace industry. Our experience includes forming and representing joint ventures in China; representing companies providing aircraft maintenance in the Middle East; structuring and negotiating cross-border mergers and acquisitions; distributorships; loan and leasing of equipment; sale and lease-backs; overhaul and maintenance of commercial aircraft and engines throughout the world; and representing aerospace clients in intellectual property and commercial disputes.
- Defense – We represent government prime and subcontractors at all tiers throughout the countries of NATO and major non-NATO allies. Our experience includes cross-border mergers and acquisitions of government contractors, including companies with facility clearances; complicated risk assessment and tailored due diligence that addresses the regulatory challenges facing the defense industry and government contractors; structuring, drafting and negotiating complex contracts involving joint ventures; strategic teaming agreements; development and joint development; licensing and protection of technology; agency and consultancy; and the sale and purchase of sophisticated hardware, software, technology and services, and representing aerospace clients in intellectual property and commercial disputes.
- Government Services Contractors – We offer a full range of legal support to professional service providers to governments, including those providing military and non-military services – for example those offering services to the governments in areas of cyber-security, intelligence, asset security, IT and consulting. Our legal services include a fixed-fee outsourcing or supplementing of the legal department function for such government services contractors.
Regulatory Experience
Selecting counsel who understand the aerospace and defense industry and with the necessary subject matter expertise on the industry’s key issues is absolutely essential to success. Some of our areas of special expertise include:
Commitment and Value
Squire Sanders is committed to the aerospace and defense industry.
- We are at the Paris, Farnborough and other major airshows.
- We sponsor industry dinners and host meetings with key clients and their customers at airshows with our team members available to address questions in person.
- We sponsor workshops and seminars, publish articles and resources, including our ITAR Handbook (download the A4 version of the ITAR Handbook) and support trade associations related to the aerospace and defense industry.
Squire Sanders is committed to a global presence. We have offices in the major locations where global aerospace and defense contractors do business as well as in the emerging markets for the industry.
Squire Sanders is committed to value. Our culture of collaboration, absence of separate profit centers, tradition of lean staffing, rates that compare very favorably with our peers, and openness to and experience with alternative fee structures that provide “win-win” opportunities for both of us are some of the factors underlying our covenant.
Practice Expertise
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