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AerCap’s Over $1.2 Billion in Insurance Recoveries

January 11, 2024

AerCap Holdings N.V, the world’s largest commercial aircraft leasing company, which Cravath is representing in connection with U.S. sanctions and export controls matters, has secured over $1.2 billion in related insurance recoveries involving Russian airlines’ refusal to return over 100 aircraft leased from AerCap following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. In September 2023, in the first announced insurance settlement of its kind, Cravath represented AerCap in obtaining authorizations from the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) and the U.S. Department of Commerce’s U.S. Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) for an agreement to enable payment of approximately $645 million to AerCap to resolve claims against certain Russian insurers and airlines as to a substantial number of AerCap aircraft. Cravath also represented AerCap before BIS and OFAC in connection with AerCap’s subsequent, $572 million insurance settlements with Russian insurers and airlines announced in December 2023.

The Cravath team includes partner John D. Buretta and of counsel Megan Y. Lew.

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John D. Buretta
Title
Litigation
Title
Partner
Email
jburetta@cravath.com
Phone
+1-212-474-1260
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    Education

    • J.D., 1996, Georgetown University Law Center
      cum laude
    • B.A., 1993, University of California, Berkeley

    Admitted In

    • New York
    • District of Columbia
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    Megan Y. Lew
    Title
    Litigation
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    Of Counsel
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    mlew@cravath.com
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    +1-212-474-1428
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      Education

      • J.D., 2010, New York University School of Law
        cum laude
      • B.S., 2004, Cornell University
        magna cum laude

      Admitted In

      • New York

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