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Someera F. Khokhar
Partner, New York
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Someera F. Khokhar
Partner
1155 Avenue of the Americas
New York, New York
10036-2787
United States
T: + 1 212 819 8846
F: + 1 212 354 8113
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Awards
Aircraft Debt Deal of the Year—South America 2008
2008 Aircraft Finance Law Award
Practice Experience
Someera F. Khokhar is an asset finance partner and has experience in transactions involving a wide range of assets, including aircraft, rolling stock, mining equipment, and power and telecommunication equipment.
Her transaction experience includes secured debt transactions, pre-delivery financings, revolving credit facilities, letter of credit facilities, US Ex-Im Bank and other ECA supported financings, asset-based structured financings, warehouse facilities, securitizations, cross-border leveraged operating lease financings, and tax-based leasing structures. Ms. Khokhar has also advised on restructuring various structured finance and secured debt transactions representing financiers in the Atlas, United, Delta and Northwest bankruptcies.
Ms. Khokhar also represents airlines and recently closed an export credit supported financing for a Latin American airline which transaction was awarded "2008 Debt Deal of the Year–South America" and the "2008 Aircraft Finance Law Award" by
Jane’s Transport Finance.
Ms. Khokhar has represented sponsors on infrastructure transactions which has included negotiation of complex equity financing and governance arrangements.
Ms. Khokhar was previously based in France and England and spent six months on secondment at a major English airline.
Bars and Courts
New York State Bar
Solicitor of England and Wales
Education
The College of Law, London, 1994
LLB, University of Southampton, 1993
Languages
English
Urdu
Citizenship
British
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Asset Finance
Aircraft Finance
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