American Airlines
We represented American Airlines in its bid to gain government approval for its alliance with British Airways and Iberia Airlines. The companies formed a joint venture that permits them to operate as a single carrier on transatlantic routes. In 2010, the parties received regulatory approval of the alliance from competition authorities in the United States and Europe.
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Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport
We advise Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the busiest airport in the U.S., in negotiating a new long-term Lease and Use Agreement with all airlines to guide future Airport operation and development, analyzing federal regulatory and contract issues related to the completion of the $1.5 billion Maynard H. Jackson International Terminal, and responding to proposed State of Georgia legislation to privatize the Airport, or transfer it to a regional authority.
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New Hampshire Motor Transport Association, Massachusetts Motor Transportation Association, and Vermont Truck & Bus Association
We won a 9-0 Supreme Court victory in the preemption case of Rowe v. New Hampshire Motor Transport Association (128 S. Ct. 989 (2008)), prevailing at all three levels of the federal court system (District of Maine, First Circuit Court of Appeals, and U.S. Supreme Court) on behalf of three trucking trade associations: the New Hampshire Motor Transport Association, the Massachusetts Motor Transportation Association, and the Vermont Truck & Bus Association. In front of the Supreme Court of the United States, we won an unusual unanimous ruling that invalidated two provisions of Maine law that would have imposed state regulation on the services that motor carriers provide when they deliver packages containing tobacco.
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San Diego County Regional Airport Authority
We represented the Authority, from its creation in January of 2002, through the transfer of the San Diego International Airport from its prior operator, the San Diego Unified Port District, to the Authority. This included the negotiation of transfers of the personal property, real estate and contracts relating to the Airport, and negotiating a division of the financial assets held by the Port, but deriving from the Airport, as well as working with the Federal Aviation Administration on the approval of the transfer, and numerous state and regional regulatory authorities on the repermitting of the operations of the Airport upon the transfer. We also drafted new codes and policies to guide the new Authority's activities. We continue to advise the Authority in a wide variety of matters, including its first Airport Master Plan and Environmental Impact Report on that Plan, both adopted in May 2008, and litigation with the exclusive FBO operator.
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Southwest Airlines
We negotiated, on behalf of Southwest Airlines, a new lease and use agreement and a concession agreement with the City of Chicago and a consortium of companies, for the proposed $2.6 billion transaction to transfer Midway Airport to a private operator.
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