Biography: Aviation

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

Mr Lynes has represented manufacturers, lessors, airlines and their insurers for 25 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 has been recognised in the most recent editions of Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, the Legal Media Group's Guide to the World's Leading Aviation Lawyers and Best of the Best USA, and The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers. In 2011, Airfinance Journal published his article on the continuing battle over federal preemption of aircraft lessor liability, and he is an annual speaker at the publication's New York air finance conference.

He regularly provides the USA update for the International Law Office Aviation Newsletter and he is the co-author of the US chapter of Getting the Deal Through 2011 – 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.

Area of specialisation: finance