Edward K. Gross

Edward K. Gross joined Vedder Price in 2006 as a member of the Equipment Finance Group. He is co-chair of the firm’s General Equipment Financing Sub-Group and Business Aircraft Sub-Group.

Mr. Gross represents bank-affiliated and large independent equipment financing companies in all aspects of equipment finance, especially business aircraft financings. This representation includes documenting, structuring, negotiating, syndicating, and enforcing equipment finance transactions for more than 25 years. Many clients rely on Mr. Gross in syndication transactions, including large portfolio purchases, "one-off" sale and assignments, discounting, back-leveraging and participation transactions. He has prepared middle and capital markets lease, loan and syndication forms for some of the largest equipment finance companies in the industry.

He counsels clients regarding the financing of all types of business aircraft, including large and small jets, turbo prop and smaller aircraft and helicopters. These transactions vary in structure, including managed and/or chartered aircraft, fractional and "pay card" arrangements, tax-motivated or synthetic structures and foreign registered aircraft used by businesses, governmental entities or high net-worth individual users.

Mr. Gross has worked on financings, syndications and portfolio sales involving aircraft having an aggregate value of billions of dollars.

Mr. Gross is a prolific writer and commentator, having contributed numerous articles in the Journal of Equipment Lease Financing, Leader’s Equipment Leasing Newsletter and other related journals including, "Business Aircraft Financing (It’s Like Any Other Equipment Financing, Except More Complicated)" Spring 2006, and "The Cape Town Convention, One Year Later," Fall 2007 in the Journal of Equipment Lease Financing. He has also contributed to treatises, including Chapter 28, "Middle-Market Leasing and Syndication," Equipment Leasing–Leveraged Leasing, Volume 2, Practicing Law Institute, 1999, Updated 2005 and 2007 and co-authored Chapter 3A, "Equipment Finance Leasing Documents and Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code" Equipment Leasing–Leveraged Leasing, Volume 1, Practicing Law Institute, 2004; and contributed a chapter 2 to the ELFA’s Executive’s Guide to Lease Documentation, 2008.

Mr. Gross has lectured at numerous seminars, including, ALI-ABA Conference: "the New Uniform Commercial Code," 2004, 2005 and 2007; WebCredenza Article 2A Update Seminar 2005 and 2007; Lessors Network Funding Conference, 2005, 2006 and 2007; the Strategic Research Institute: FAA Aircraft Registration, Lien & Security Interests Seminars in 2003 and 2004, and Cape Town Convention & Aircraft Protocol, 2006; ABA Aircraft Financing Subcommittee, Business Aircraft Financing, 2005 and 2007; and the Equipment Leasing and Finance Association Legal Forum, 1990-1997, 1999, 2000, 2002 and 2004-2008. Mr. Gross was the chair of 2 ELFA working groups pertaining to the Air and Rail Protocols to the Cape Town Convention 2006-2008, and is currently the chair of ELFA’s newly formed Air, Rail and Marine Finance Subcommittee.