Butler Snow LLP

Butler Snow LLP is a United States law firm offering business law and litigation services from 25 offices, including Ridgeland, Mississippi. Its Aviation Group is a team of regulatory, product liability defense, insurance and crisis management lawyers that represents aviation industry clients. It defends aircraft owners and operators, and manufacturers of airplanes, helicopters, engines, airframes and components, in product liability cases, and its public finance lawyers work on airport and aviation infrastructure financing.

Aviation services

• Defense of product liability claims, from single party cases to multidistrict litigation, mass torts and class actions
• Response after accidents, working with accident reconstruction, forensic, metallurgy and engineering experts
• Representation in investigations by the NTSB, FAA, TSA, FTA, Department of Homeland Security and DOJ
• Supply, service and distribution disputes and insurance coverage and recovery
• Agricultural chemical application and overspray cases, fuel leaks and contamination claims
• Drafting and negotiating aviation transactions and advising on regulatory matters and risk management

Airport and aviation finance

The firm's public finance lawyers act as bond counsel, disclosure counsel, bank counsel and special counsel for airports, aviation authorities and lenders. Work includes airport revenue bonds, passenger facility charge financings and lease purchase structures. Examples on its site include bond counsel work for the Jacksonville Aviation Authority, the Capital Region Airport Commission (Richmond International Airport) and the New Orleans Aviation Board, on a general airport revenue bond financing of more than $606 million.

Company facts

• 25 offices, 24 in the United States and one in London; US offices include Atlanta, Dallas, Nashville, New Orleans, New York and Washington, D.C.
• Has represented clients in all 50 states and in more than 30 countries
• Aviation practice covers litigation, regulatory investigations, transactions and public finance