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Ronald Scheinberg

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Ronald Scheinberg

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Ronald Scheinberg is a Shareholder at Vedder Price and member of the firm’s Global Transportation Finance team.

Mr. Scheinberg concentrates his practice in corporate finance with a special focus on aircraft and rail finance. He represents commercial banks, lessors, finance companies, operating lessors, underwriters, investment banks, insurance companies, manufacturers and airlines in aircraft, railcar and other equipment financing and portfolio acquisitions. He handles transactions structured as, or utilizing, leveraged leases, back-leveraged operating leases, finance leases, warehouses, EETCs, cross-border leases, mortgage financings, operating leases, off-balance-sheet leases, Export-Import Bank of the United States guarantees, and residual value and credit insurance. Many of these structures utilize capital markets financing techniques, including EETCs, bankruptcy-remote securitizations and commercial paper.

Mr. Scheinberg has represented financial institutions and lessors in purchase agreements and the financing of not only aircraft and railcars, but also simulators, satellites, industrial production facilities, cars and trucks, and office buildings. He also represents money-center banks in structuring, negotiating and documenting secured and unsecured revolving credit and term-loan facilities.

Mr. Scheinberg has written and presented extensively on aircraft finance matters. He is the author of The Commercial Aircraft Finance Handbook, published by Routledge Press in 2018. He is also a contributor to Aircraft Repossession and Enforcement: Practical Aspects (Kluwer Law International, International Bar Association) and, most recently, published “SOFR, The New LIBOR? A Critique Of SOFR And The USD LIBOR Replacement Process” in The Banking Law Journal, as well as “The Bank Liquidity Crisis and Aircraft Finance” in Commercial Lending Review.

Mr. Scheinberg has earned numerous distinctions and rankings in his industry. He received the highest rankings possible in Chambers USA in the categories of Nationwide Transportation: Aviation: Finance; New York Banking & Finance: Equipment Finance & Leasing; and Nationwide Banking & Finance: Equipment Finance & Leasing. He has also been ranked in the Chambers Global Asset Finance category from 2010 to 2014 and 2020, and in the Chambers Global Aviation Finance category from 2015 to 2018; He was recognized among the world’s leading aviation attorneys by Euromoney Legal Media Group Aviation Expert Guides and was also recognized in “The Best of the Best USA” Aviation Expert Guide. recognized in The International Who’s Who of Aviation Lawyers and Who's Who Legal Transport 2017 Aviation Finance Lawyers. He was selected by his peers as one of The Best Lawyers in America from 2006 to 2021 in the field of Equipment Finance Law; and included in New York Super Lawyers from 2006 to 2020. Legal 500 United States recognized Mr. Scheinberg in the Finance—Asset Finance and Leasing category in 2012 and 2015. In 2015, 2017 and 2018, Vedder Price was named Airline Economics Aviation 100 Law Firm of the Year.

Ronald Scheinberg

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Education

  • Harvard Law School, J.D., 1983, cum laude
  • Brown University, B.A., 1980, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, with honors

Ronald Scheinberg

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Bar Admissions

  • New York, 1984

Affiliations

  • Member, International Society of Transport Aircraft Trading (ISTAT)

Ronald Scheinberg

Shareholder

Ronald Scheinberg

Shareholder