Aviation specialist law firm Watson Farley & Williams announces raft of new partners

Watson Farley & Williams (WFW) has promoted eleven lawyers to the firm’s partnership across eight of its offices. The promotions take the firm’s number of partners to 195, with several of the promotions covering airlines and aviation-related operations. Laura Cadenas was made a partner covering assets and structured finance in Madrid, due to her “extensive expertise in aircraft financing for helicopters, commercial aircraft and business jets, as well as tax lease transactions for ships, shipbuilding contracts and ECA-backed financings”. Shusuke Fukunaga was named partner for the same sectors in Tokyo.  “He regularly advises banks, trading houses, corporate investors, airlines, leasing