Dean N. Gerber

Shareholder

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Chair, Global Transportation Finance Team

Dean N. Gerber is a Shareholder at Vedder Price and chairs the Global Transportation Finance team. He has extensive experience as special counsel representing lessees, equity participants, lenders, credit enhancers, underwriters, governmental agencies and others on various aspects of aircraft, railcar and general equipment finance, including leveraged leasing, operating leasing, mortgage and synthetic lease financings, cross-border leasing, securitizations (including EETCs and pass-through certificates), government-supported financings, manufacturer-supported financings, bankruptcies, restructurings and workouts, and purchase, maintenance and conversion agreements. He also has participated significantly in the development and structuring of financings involving export credit agencies.

Mr. Gerber, also a certified public accountant, is a frequent speaker at air finance conferences and legal forums and has authored numerous articles on equipment finance-related topics. Mr. Gerber is regularly named one of the top aviation lawyers in the world in Legal Media Group’s Expert Guides (including a listing as The Best of the Best for Aviation), and was recognized by The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers as one of the top ten most highly regarded individuals in Aviation for 2011. He was also included in the elite Leading Lawyers list for the Finance—Asset Finance and Leasing category in 2011 by Legal 500. Mr. Gerber was also highly ranked in Chambers Global in the Asset Finance category, and in 2011 he was ranked in the top tier by Chambers USA in the Nationwide Transportation: Aviation: Finance category. Mr. Gerber was selected by his peers from 2008 to 2012 for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America. He also serves on the Legal Advisory Panel for the Aviation Working Group in connection with its work on aviation-related matters, including the Cape Town Convention.

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• Vedder Price Expands Overseas with New London Office
• Dean N. Gerber Publishes Article on 2011 ASU in ABA’s The Air & Space Lawyer
• Transferring a Right to Discharge on the International Registry: What You Should Know
• Practitioner's Guide to the Cape Town Convention and the Aircraft Protocol

• Aircraft Finance
• Asset Securitization
• Business Aviation Services
• Cross-Border and Municipal Transactions
• Global Transportation Finance
• Operating Leases
• Railcar Finance
• Taxation

• J.D., cum laude, University of Illinois, 1985
• B.S., magna cum laude, University of Delaware, 1982

• Illinois, 1985
  

• Vice Chair, Legal Advisory Panel, Aviation Working Group
• Member, Governing Committee, American Bar Association Forum on Air & Space Law
• Member, Board of Directors, ISTAT 

Publications

• “Aircraft Finance,” Equipment Leasing–Leveraged Leasing, 2011
• “Aircraft Financings Involving the Export-Import Bank of the United States,” Aircraft Finance–Registration, Security and Enforcement, June 2010

Honors and Awards