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Chair, Equipment Finance Practice Group

Dean N. Gerber is a shareholder at Vedder Price P.C. and chair of the Equipment Finance Group. He has extensive experience as special counsel representing lessees, equity participants, lenders, credit enhancers, underwriters, governmental agencies and others on various aspects of aircraft finance, rail finance and other general equipment finance, including leveraged leasing, operating leasing, mortgage and synthetic lease financings, cross-border leasing, securitizations (including “EETCs” and pass-through certificates), government (export credit agency) supported financings, manufacturer supported financings, bankruptcy, restructurings and workouts, and purchase, maintenance and conversion agreements. Mr. Gerber has specific knowledge of structured tax-motivated financings such as U.S. leveraged leases. He also has participated significantly in the development and structuring of “double-dip” financings involving a number of different jurisdictions.

Mr. Gerber, also a certified public accountant, is a frequent speaker at air finance conferences and legal forums. He has authored numerous articles on aircraft finance-related topics and, most recently, a chapter on the topic of aircraft finance appearing in Equipment Leasing—Leveraged Leasing, 4th Edition (Rev. 2007), published by the Practising Law Institute. Mr. Gerber is regularly named one of the top aviation lawyers in the world by Euromoney Publications and was named “Best of the Best” in the aviation lawyer category in 2007 (also by Euromoney Publications ). In 2007, he was named as one of the most highly regarded aviation lawyers in the world by the International Bar Association’s The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers. Mr. Gerber was selected by his peers as one of the The Best Lawyers in America for the 2008 edition.


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Recent Experience
  • Ranked as one of the most highly regarded aviation lawyers
    in the world by the
    International Bar Association's The International Who's Who
    of Business Lawyers
    , 2005.
    See:  Who'sWhoLegal
  • Ranked "Best of the Best" Aviation Attorneys in the
    World by Euromoney Publications, 1999, 2003, 2005, 2006 and 2007.
    See:  Expert Guides
  Education
  • J.D., cum laude, University of Illinois, 1985
  • B.S., magna cum laude, University of Delaware, 1982

Bar Admissions
  • Illinois, 1985





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