• Advised Sabena Technics on the full acquisition of the Héli-Union Group to become a European leader in military maintenance.
• Advised Sagard, Bpifrance, and TowerBrook in the acquisition of Sabena Technics, an aircraft maintenance company for civil and military business.
• Advised Sullivan Street Partners on its agreement to acquire the Aerostructures division of Senior Plc.
• Advised a FTSE100 company on a complex carve-out transaction and sale of part of its aerospace business in the United Kingdom and United States to a large US corporation.
• Advised Intuitive Machines, a leading space technology, infrastructure, and services company, on its acquisition of Lanteris Space Systems.
• Advised The Jordan Company in the sale of VT Group Holdings, Inc., a government services provider that delivers multidomain modernization and digital transformation solutions to the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Intelligence Community, to an affiliate of A&M Capital Advisors, LP.

• Advising an export credit agency on financing of the AfricaSat 1A satellite.
• Advising a German bank on the export financing of equipment for UN units.
• Represented a global bank, as administrative agent, in a revolving and term loan credit facility, for a domestic company involved in the aerospace and defense engineering industry, as borrower.
• Represented Sullivan Street Partners in its senior ABL and mezzanine acquisition financing for the Aerostructures division of Senior Plc.

• Advised a major European defense company on export control compliance during its consent agreement with the US State Department.
• Developed and deployed a compliance remediation solution for a major UK aerospace company in the wake of export control enforcement action by HM Revenue & Customs and adverse audit findings by the Export Control Joint Unit.
• Advised a major European aerospace and defense company on the development of its export control and sanctions program in response to voluntary disclosures to OFAC and the US Commerce Department BIS.
• Advised the aerospace and defense divisions of a major foreign company on the application of export/re-export control and sanctions laws to their operations, and successfully conducted multiple complex, cross-border investigations involving ITAR, EAR, OFAC and related regulatory regimes.
• Acted as lead counsel for a GCC defense contractor in connection with complex $800 million developmental aircraft and signal intelligence program involving sensitive defense trade procurement agreements with US and European OEMs.
• Advised Sullivan Street Partners on export control due diligence and associated procedures for the acquisition of the Aerostructures division of Senior Plc.
• Advised a European aerospace company, structuring cutting-edge global export licensing arrangements, to assist in obtaining sensitive US government approvals for global inventories of controlled goods and technologies to support customers around the world.
• Advised a leading US defense contractor in connection with complex compliance and large-scale disclosure reviews of hundreds of ITAR agreements in connection with consent decree obligations to the U.S. Department of State.
• Conducted a comprehensive compliance risk assessment and provided strategic counseling to a major aerospace joint venture engaged primarily in the development and sale of civil and military aircraft engines and parts.

• Advised the Boeing Company on the CFIUS aspects of the $10.55 billion sale of the company’s Jeppesen Digital Aviation Solutions business.
• Advised a European investor on the CFIUS implications of its acquisition of a US ballistic glass manufacturer.
• Advised Sullivan Street Partners on the CFIUS aspects of their acquisition of the Aerostructures division of Senior Plc.

• Advised a European producer of military defense equipment on antitrust and public procurement aspects.
• Advised a Middle Eastern conglomerate on merger control and foreign direct investment in its acquisition of civil and naval ships in Germany.
• Advised on multijurisdictional merger control and foreign direct investment for consolidation of military aircraft maintenance providers.

• Representing a contractor in litigation regarding US Air Force space launch sites.
• Represented a European defense company in an arbitration against an Asian government procurement agency.
• Represented a major aerospace company in international arbitrations involving a joint venture to develop a missile system.
• Represented numerous aerospace and defense contractors in bid protests and claims litigation involving contracts with US defense and space agencies.

• Advising defense contractors on their insider threat programs, to meet government customer expectations consistent with employment nondiscrimination laws.
• Investigating and remediating North Korean IT worker threats as well as conducting other insider threat investigations.
• Assisted defense contractors and FFRDCs with incident response consistent with DFARS 252.204-7012 and other reporting obligations to the government, recognizing the unique expectations of transparency that government customers have of their contractors.
• Helped a major aerospace company address a ransomware attack implicating their government solutions business;
• Assisted defense contractors with evaluating and improving their CMMC compliance.

In addition to the below, our Global Mobility & Migration team manages visa and work permit authorizations, alongside the full gamut of global mobility issues that clients may face, on a daily basis.

• Advised Safran in implementing an international employee share plan.
• Advised Exosens, a European leader in high-end electro-optical technologies for defense applications, on its first employee share offering.
• Advised Dassault Systèmes on its employee share ownership scheme.
• Advised Inspirit Capital on employment aspects of its acquisition of the civil/apprenticeship training and adult education business of Babcock International Group Plc, an engineering services organization providing support to the aerospace, defense, and security sectors.