Your challenges
Businesses involved in the aerospace and defence sector are facing a range of challenges: the global recession, budgetary constraints, many defence programmes being terminated and defence budgets scheduled for future cuts.
In these challenging times, you need lawyers who have a deep understanding of these issues and the insight needed to provide you with commercial and practical legal solutions.
Achieving your ambitions
Aerospace and defence are high risk sectors. Whatever your legal requirements, our specialist aerospace and defence lawyers can help you assess these risks and provide workable solutions.
We are active members of the Midlands Aerospace Alliance (MAA), which strengthens our industry knowledge.
The strength you need
Our multi-specialist team is led by Raith Pickup and Richard Lobban and includes experts in corporate finance, projects, commercial, employment, banking and finance, health and safety, dispute resolution and property law.
Our team provides legal advice to clients in the public and private sectors, ranging from government agencies to other businesses involved throughout the aerospace and defence supply chain.
Our aerospace and defence legal experience includes advising on the broadest range of transactions including partnering, M&A, defence procurement, maintenance contracts and engineering services contracts.
Supporting your international strategy
We use our well established network of firms across the globe to support our clients’ international requirements, which gives you access to high quality legal advice from firms that have a strong track record in the aerospace and defence sector.
Lawyers you can trust
Members of our team have spent lengthy periods of secondment in-house in the aerospace and defence sector. Our lawyers therefore have a real understanding of both the issues in these sectors and the industry jargon.
Many of the lawyers in our team are highly rated by legal directories such as Legal 500 and Chambers UK.
Raith has been described as: “commercial and deal driven”, “great fun to work with”, “extremely astute and good humoured” and a “fantastic negotiator who always gets what he wants without upsetting anyone”.