Thursday, May 20, 2021
Key Points
Populating a template lease summary is an effective way to confirm significant commercial, legal and technical provisions in lease due diligence.
Comprehensive seller and lessee representations may be negotiated in the sale and lease-assignment agreements to round out the due diligence.
Real-world examples of unscheduled lessor payment obligations to the lessee and successive lease term extensions demonstrate the efficacy of this approach.
Introduction
This advisory discusses how a buyer of a portfolio of aircraft subject to existing leases may effectively use a template lease summary rounded out with seller and lessee representations to perform due diligence on the leases and mitigate risk. Due diligence on a portfolio of leased aircraft will include reading the lease documents, confirming the commercial terms match the seller s marketing materials, confirming that most provisions of the lease are within industry norms, confirming th
Key Points
Populating a template lease summary is an effective way to confirm significant commercial, legal and technical provisions in lease due diligence.
Comprehensive seller and lessee representations may be negotiated in the sale and lease-assignment agreements to round out the due diligence.
Real-world examples of unscheduled lessor payment obligations to the lessee and successive lease term extensions demonstrate the efficacy of this approach.
Introduction
This advisory discusses how a buyer of a portfolio of aircraft subject to existing leases may effectively use a template lease summary rounded out with seller and lessee representations to perform due diligence on the leases and mitigate risk. Due diligence on a portfolio of leased aircraft will include reading the lease documents, confirming the commercial terms match the seller s marketing materials, confirming that most provisions of the lease are within industry norms, confirming that the lease complies with minimum
• Building strong working relationship with the existing clients
• Client reports – preparation and issue professional reports within agreed timescales
• Lease Summary recordings, maintenance and update in-house records
• Plan for critical lease event dates such as reviews, lease expiries and options and implementation
• Pro-active Asset Management
• Deal with and manage tenant arrears
• Service Charge – draft review and approve budgets & regular review of s/c cash flow and budget
• Approve Service Charge reconciliations
• Identify & introduce cross selling opportunities
• Identify & introduce additional services to clients
The above list is not exhaustive and the surveyor may be required to carry out other duties as may reasonably be required, from time to time.