Tao joins Bird & Bird’s Shanghai aviation team 

Aubrey Tao has joined Bird & Bird’s aviation team as a managing associate based in the firm’s Shanghai office. Tao brings with her a wealth of experience having worked for a top Chinese aircraft leasing business and a leading Chinese airline. She joins from CMB Financial Leasing where she was the lawyer responsible for numerous aircraft financing and leasing transactions (both domestic and cross-border) as well as advising the business on compliance matters and commercial projects. Prior to CMB, Aubrey was a senior lawyer at China Eastern Airlines, and focused primarily on the airline’s international transactions and projects. Fluent in