Profile: Rod D Margo
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Law Firm: | Condon & Forsyth LLP |
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Condon & Forsyth LLP 1901 Avenue of the Stars Suite 850 90067 |
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| City: | Los Angeles | |
| State: | California | |
| Country: | USA | |
| Tel: | +1 310 557 2030 | |
| Fax: | +1 310 557 1299 | |
| Email: | rmargo@condonlaw.com |
Aviation
Biography: Aviation
Rod Margo is a partner in the firm of Condon & Forsyth LLP, resident in the firm's Los Angeles office. He is admitted to practise in California, Georgia and the District of Columbia, and in New South Wales, Australia.Rod's practice focuses on advising and representing international airlines and their insurers in the resolution of aviation claims. He advises and represents airlines in the negotiation and documentation of commercial transactions, including aircraft sale, lease and financing arrangements. He handles commercial disputes on behalf of airlines, and acts for aviation insurers in relation to coverage issues. Rod is involved in aviation regulatory, aero-political, and labour and employment matters.
Recent assignments include representing several IATA carriers in environmental litigation concerning the application of Proposition 65, the California Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986; acting as lead counsel for several foreign air carriers in connection with litigation over claims for deep vein thrombosis (DVT), including acting for the prevailing carriers in Rodriguez v Ansett Australia Ltd, 383 F 3d 914 (9th Cir 2004) and Blotteaux v Qantas Airways Limited, 2006 WL 47548 (9th Cir 2006); representing air carriers in disputes with aircraft lessors over obligations under aircraft leases; advising on the implications of the entry into force of the Cape Town Convention of 2001 and its aircraft equipment protocol; and advising air carriers on the implications of the entry into force of the Montreal Convention of 1999, including the amendment of conditions of carriage.
Rod has published and lectured extensively on legal issues affecting the airline and insurance industries. He also serves as an adjunct professor of law at McGill University's Institute of Air & Space Law in Montreal, and teaches international air law at IATA's Training & Development Institute in Montreal and Geneva. Rod is a member of the board of editors of the Annals of Air & Space Law, and serves as an adviser to the editorial board of Air & Space Law, published in the Netherlands by Kluwer & Co.
Rod is the author of Aviation Insurance (3rd ed, 2000, Butterworths, London), a co-editor of Shawcross & Beaumont on Air Law (4th ed rev, 2005, Butterworths), and the editor and co-author of The Liability Reporter, published jointly by IATA and Condon & Forsyth LLP (9th ed, 2006).
In addition to his legal practice, Rod is actively involved in alternative dispute resolution. He serves as a mediator for the Los Angeles Superior Court, and is also a member of the air law panels of the International Mediation and Arbitration Center in Los Angeles, and ACI, an administered commercial dispute resolution service, in London.
Rod is a graduate of the Institute of Air & Space Law (DCL, 1979). He studied international law at Cambridge University (1974-75), and graduated with a BCom (1970) and LLB (1973) from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. He is a commercial pilot and a fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society.
This biography is an extract from The International Who's Who of Aviation Lawyers which can be purchased from our bookstore.
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The Cape Town Convention And Its Effects on Aircraft Financing and Leasing
The Cape Town Convention came into effect on 1 March, 2006 for the nine countries which ratified the convention and the Aviation Protocol. The Cape Town Convention represents the successful culmination of some 10 years’ work by bankers, lawyers, lessors and financing companies to create a treaty which provides security for aircraft and engine lessors as well as reduced financing costs for lessees. The nine countries party to the convention are Ethiopia, Ireland, Malaysia, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Senegal and the United States. The European Community is actively pursuing ratification and it is likely that the nations of the community will become contracting states in late 2006 or early 2007. It is anticipated that three countries with formidable aviation interests, China, India and Russia, will also ratify the Cape Town Convention in the near future.