Effectively represent clients in the aerospace and defense industry on Corporate, Litigation/Regulatory, Business Finance & Restructuring and Tax issues
Extensive experience defending clients in the aerospace industry in government investigations
Equipped with decades of industry-based knowledge, Weil Gotshal delivers timely legal advice to its aerospace and defense industry clients. We draw upon the full range of legal disciplines within the firm to help clients understand evolving regulations and trends in all major markets impacting their businesses. As governments impose unique requirements on aerospace companies and particularly on government contractors, our aerospace clients increasingly call on us to provide advice in connection with mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. As a result of that experience, our antitrust/competition, corporate and corporate governance attorneys are deeply conversant with the issues that arise frequently in corporate transactions in the aerospace industry.
Since its inception, our aerospace practice has included litigation and arbitration among aerospace companies. Weil Gotshal has unmatched experience evaluating and litigating antitrust cases in the defense and aerospace industry; several antitrust partners are high-level government officials who were responsible for the Government’s antitrust enforcement program in the defense industry. Our attorneys have prepared claims and litigated disputes involving major commercial airplane development programs, foreign and domestic joint venture agreements, monopolization claims under the antitrust laws, product liability and a host of other issues. We have also handled disputes arising out of government subcontracting relationships.
From the early 1980s, when many of our clients were scrutinized by the Department of Defense’s campaign against “fraud, waste and abuse,” we represented a large part of the aerospace industry in government investigations. Our representation of clients includes investigations on a broad range of critical issues, including potential environmental violations, payments to foreign agents, export control, FAA certification and others. Because our lawyers understand the aerospace industry, we are able to respond quickly to each new investigative focus as it develops.