William H. Callaway, Jr.
Senior Counsel | Washington, DC, Office
Aircraft Transactions | Aviation
William Callaway has nearly three decades of experience in aircraft and other cross-border asset-based financial transactions. He has represented airlines, financial institutions and export credit agencies in complex transactions in various parts of the world, including recent transactions involving airlines and other borrowers located in the Near East, Europe, Central America, South America, Africa, the CIS and the Far East. Mr. Callaway also regularly represents/advises foreign and domestic clients before the Department of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administration on a broad range of aviation-related matters.
While on a leave of absence from the firm during the late 1970s, Mr. Callaway lived in Seoul, Korea, where he served as a foreign law consultant in a major Korean law firm. In that capacity, Mr. Callaway represented a number of prominent clients on a broad range of international commercial transactions.
Mr. Callaway has been a guest speaker on a variety of aircraft finance and aviation regulatory issues at conferences sponsored by the Aircraft Financing Subcommittee of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association, the Air and Space Law Forum of the American Bar Association, the Transportation Law Institute, the Airfinance Journal and the Strategic Research Institute.
Mr. Callaway is listed in The International Who's Who of Aviation Lawyers and has also been ranked nationwide in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for his work in finance in the aviation industry.