CHRIS QUINN

Chris currently serves as a Non Executive Director of CDB Aviation Lease Finance DAC. Chris qualified as a lawyer in Ireland in1989 and  was a consultant in Matheson’s (one of Ireland’s largest law firms )  Banking and Financial Services Group from 2016 to 2020 and focused on aviation and asset finance, leasing, structured and cross-border financing and securitisations.From 1997 to 2016, Chris headed up the Aviation and Asset Finance Group in Matheson.  Chris has over thirty years’ experience in the aviation and asset financing and leasing sector. For a number of years in the 1990’s Chris worked as in-house counsel with an aircraft leasing company in Ireland.

Chris has advised many of the world’s leading financial institutions, private equity groups, investment banks, aircraft financing banks, aircraft owners, aircraft lessors, airlines, financial arrangers and investment advisers both located in Ireland and throughout the world. Chris has extensive experience in asset finance, leasing, structured cross border financing and securitisation transactions including the acquisition, financing, sale and leaseback and defeasance of aircraft, ships, rail, rolling stock and other equipment.

Chris has spoken at a number of conferences in relation to Aircraft Transactions and Ireland. Chris has also spoken at Cape Town Convention and Aircraft Protocol legal conferences and was Irish counsel to Aviareto Limited which operates the Cape Town Convention International Registry.

Chris is a proud Kildare man, he was educated at University College Dublin and holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree. He lives in Dublin with his wife and has adult twin daughters.