Miran Vila

Miran Vila
Katten
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Professional Biography:

Miran Vila concentrates his practice on corporate finance transactions and is part of the firm’s aviation finance team. He has worked on mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity financings, joint ventures, corporate reorganizations and other strategic corporate transactions. His clients include large domestic and international private equity firms, hedge funds, banks and financial institutions, investment management firms, asset management firms, technology and manufacturing companies.

Taking a business-smart approach when negotiating corporate transactions

Miran applies his prior experience as in-house corporate counsel to examine business issues from a client's perspective. He understands that managing risk and protecting the client's legal interests are only a part of the answer to any business concern. In order to close deals, he finds creative solutions to difficult problems. This includes fostering cooperation between counterparties while creating efficiencies that can reduce overall response times.

Prior to joining Katten, Miran was an associate in the corporate department of a large, 1,100 attorney international law firm and was corporate counsel at a $21 billion dollar multinational corporation. He also serves on the American Bar Association's Section of International Law Steering Committee.

PRACTICES

Corporate
International
Mergers and Acquisitions
Structured Finance and Securitization

INDUSTRIES

Aviation
Energy
Manufacturing and Industrials Private Equity

Articles in the National Law Review database by Miran Vila

Protecting a Lessor Against the Recharacterization in Bankruptcy of a Full Payout Aircraft Lease as a Disguised Security Agreement (Posted On Monday, January 11, 2021)
ADS-B OUT Compliance as Part of Lease Redelivery Conditions (Posted On Wednesday, November 25, 2020)
Maximizing Returns Through Effective Management of Engine Performance Restoration: Five Cases (Posted On Thursday, October 1, 2020)
Use of Residual-Value Insurance to Support Debt Repayment in Leveraged Aircraft Leases (Posted On Friday, August 14, 2020)
Toward a Rational Debt-Equity Framework in Leveraged Aircraft Leases (Posted On Thursday, July 9, 2020)
Aircraft Sale Leasebacks in a Disrupted Market: Traditional and New Considerations for Lessors (Posted On Thursday, May 21, 2020)
Passenger Airlines and US Treasury Department Reach Agreement on CARES Act Payroll Support Program (Posted On Friday, April 17, 2020)

Aviation Law

Aviation Industry and COVID-19

Katten is a National Law Review Go-To Thought Leader for the firm’s thought leadership on the Coronavirus pandemic's impact on the aviation industry, specifically the government’s on-going operation support for the airlines and aviation finance and leases. Katten’s thought leadership in aviation addresses leases and financing and the insurance of aircraft assets during bankruptcies, as well as government regulation and oversight of the aviation industry including the Treasury Department’s payroll support for airline workers and special payments earmarked for the airline industry under the CARES Act. The following Katten attorney authors were notable aviation law contributors in 2020: Lisa A. Clark, Tom Healey, Stewart B. Herman, Timothy J. Lynes, Brett J. Seifarth and Miran Vila.