Profile: Timothy J Lynes

Aviation

Biography: Aviation

Timothy J Lynes is a partner in Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP's corporate practice and head of the firm's aviation practice.

Mr Lynes has represented manufacturers, lessors, airlines and their insurers for more than 20 years. His practice routinely involves aircraft sale agreements, cross-border and tax leases, loans, chattel mortgages, residual value and credit support agreements, and aviation insurance policies. He also regularly advises clients on Department of Transportation and Federal Aviation Administration regulatory issues. He has participated in multidistrict litigation arising from aircraft crash disasters and served as lead trial counsel in numerous commercial disputes and damages trials arising from aircraft crashes.

Mr Lynes is listed in Legal Media Group's The Best of the Best USA 2007 and the World's Leading Aviation Lawyers 2008 Expert Guides. Airfinance Journal recently published his article on the Open Skies agreement between the EU and US, and he has spoken on the subject of liberalising airline ownership at the annual New York Airfinance conference. He is co-writer of a published article on recent legislative and judicial actions on the airline passenger bill of rights for the International Law Office, and he also is the co-writer of the US chapter of Getting the Deal Through 2008 - Air Transport. Mr Lynes served as an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland School of Law and taught a course on sales and sales financing.

Mr Lynes received his undergraduate degree (BA, 1981) from the Fairfield University, and his law degree (JD, 1984) from the Gonzaga University School of Law, where he was associate editor of the Gonzaga Law Review. He is a member of the bars of the states of New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland, New York and the District of Columbia.