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Jason P. Huff is a Partner in the Global Transport Practice of Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP.
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Full Bio
Mr. Huff represents banks, financial institutions, equipment finance companies, lenders, borrowers, lessors, lessees and other parties involved in the transportation industry in leveraged finance, acquisition finance, and other transactions. He has wide-ranging experience representing lenders and lessors in all aspects of domestic and cross-border equipment and structured finance transactions with specific focus on transactions involving aircraft and rail equipment. Both the complexity of the financing arrangements and the unique issues presented by these assets require highly specialized and valued legal expertise.
Mr. Huff represents clients in all aspects of equipment finance and in all types of equipment financing structures, including single-investor and syndicated lease and loan transactions, leveraged financings, true/ tax motivated leases, synthetic leases, TRAC leases and other domestic and cross-border financings. He also advises clients in lease and loan portfolio purchases and sales and company acquisitions and divestitures.
Mr. Huff speaks regularly at aviation and rail conferences and conducts workshops for clients on a wide range of topics in equipment finance. Mr. Huff is an Adjunct Professor at Wake Forest University School of Law.
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Representative Experience
- Represented the lenders in more than $350 million aircraft financing transactions involving aircraft registered in the U.S. and foreign jurisdictions.
- Represented the seller in $90 million sale and assignment transactions of portfolios of railcars and related leases.
- Represented the purchaser and borrower in $325 million aircraft acquisition and financing transactions involving nine foreign jurisdictions.
- Represented the lessor in $140 million lease transaction involving new railcars.
- Represented the lessor in $21 million aircraft synthetic lease transaction.
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Bar Admissions
North Carolina -
Education
Undergraduate- College of William & Mary
Law School- Wake Forest University
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Memberships
Mecklenburg County Bar
ELFA
NAFA
NBAA
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Recognitions
The Best Lawyers in America®, Equipment Finance Law, Charlotte (2023-2026)
Ranked Tier 1 in Transport: Rail and Road – Finance by The Legal 500 (2019 and 2020)
Recognized as a Leading Lawyer in Transport: Rail and Road – Finance (2019 and 2020)
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Publications and Speaking Engagements
Speaker – Webinar: What to Expect from your SGR Collateral in Bankruptcy, August 2020
Speaker – OKC GATS Conference, GATS and Business Aviation, January 2020
Speaker – Equipment Leasing and Finance Association – 2019 Legal Forum, Air, Rail & Vessel Roundtable, April 2019
Speaker – The Great GATS(by)?: Why you need to know about the Global Aircraft Trading System, Corporate Jet Investor – Miami, November 2018
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SGR Publications
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Press
- Smith Gambrell Russell Global Transport Practice Partners Named to Lexology Index (formerly Who’s Who Legal): Transport 2024
- The Best Lawyers in America® Recognizes 105 SGR Attorneys in 2025 Edition
- The Best Lawyers in America® Recognizes 102 SGR Attorneys in 2024 Edition
- Best Lawyers in America Recognizes 91 SGR Attorneys in 2023 Edition
- Smith Gambrell Russell Attorneys Jason Huff and Mickey Jett Recognized in The Legal 500 United States 2022 Edition
- Smith Gambrell Russell Client Transactions Awarded as Airfinance Journal Deals of the Year for 2021
- Smith Gambrell Russell Welcomes Veteran UK Aviation Finance Lawyer Adrian Beasley
- Smith, Gambrell & Russell Expands Global Transport Group with Hire of Attorneys Jason Huff and Mickey Jett