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Dickstein Shapiro’s Corporate & Finance Group represents lessors and lessees, as well as other parties, in complex equipment and facility purchase, sale/leaseback, and other structured finance transactions.

Representative engagements include:

• Representation of affiliates of KeySpan Corporation in connection with a $600 million synthetic lease financing for the acquisition of the largest power plant in New York City;
• Representation of Mercedes Benz Credit Corporation and Debis Financial Services as equity participant in numerous aircraft leasing transactions, including transactions involving the purchase of regional aircraft through Japanese “double dip” leveraged lease structures for lease to US Air Express and the leveraged purchase of three Boeing 757 aircraft for lease to Continental Airlines;
• Representation of Agusta Group (including Construzioni Aeronautical Giovanni Agusta, Agusta International, Agusta Aerospace Corporation, and Sia Marchetti) in approximately 30 leveraged lease transactions involving approximately 200 aircraft (both fixed wing and helicopter);
• Representation of Dornier Aviation Marketing in several transactions involving the lease of 40 aircraft from equity participants and sublease of such aircraft to their end users;
• Representation of BNY Leasing Corporation as debt participant in several leveraged lease financings of aircraft and railcars; and 
• Representation of The Pittston Company in connection with a master sale and leaseback financing transaction involving coal mining equipment and a related currency and interest rate swap transaction.