Aviation Legal Services
for
Discerning Clients Worldwide

About the Firm

JETREP is a boutique law firm whose singular purpose is to render exemplary aviation legal services to discerning clients worldwide.

 

Having represented many of the world’s wealthiest individuals and most successful public and private companies, leading entrepreneurs, top venture capitalists, and prominent musicians, actors, entertainers, and athletes, and advising on complex aircraft purchase, sale, lease, financing, tax structuring, and other transactions, JETREP attorneys are distinctively qualified to assist clients with any aviation-related matter, regardless of complexity, size, and scope.    

JETREP clients expect the highest standard of excellence, and so do we, which is demonstrated by the quality, creativity, and problem-solving acumen we bring to every engagement.

 

Our Services

JETREP attorneys represent and advise clients on a wide variety of aviation matters, including:

 

Aircraft Acquisitions & Dispositions

  • Letters of Intent
  • Aircraft Purchase and Sale Agreements
  • Fractional Aircraft Interest Agreements
  • Fractional Aircraft Interest Repurchases
  • Aircraft Trade-In Agreements
  • Jet Cards
  • Aircraft Importation & Exportation

Aircraft Ownership & Operational Matters

  • FAA Regulatory Compliance
  • Dry Lease Agreements
  • Time Sharing Agreements
  • Interchange Agreements
  • Joint Ownership Agreements
  • Bulk Charter Agreements
  • Non-Citizen Trust Agreements
  • Aircraft Hangar Agreements
  • Privacy Enhancement Trusts
  • International Registry Matters
  • Insurance Review and Recommendations
  • Maintenance Program Agreements

Aircraft Tax Matters

  • Federal Tax Planning
  • State Sales and Use Tax Planning
  • Local Property Tax
  • Federal Excise Tax

Aircraft Financing Arrangements

  • Aircraft Loan Agreements
  • Aircraft Financing Leases
  • Aircraft Operating Leases
  • Aircraft Synthetic Leases
  • Aircraft Sale and Leaseback Transactions
  • Promissory Notes
  • Aircraft Security Agreements

Aircraft Management

  • Aircraft Management Agreements
  • Aircraft Charter Lease Agreements (Part 135)

Aircraft Completions & Conversions

  • Aircraft Interior Completion Agreements
  • Passenger to Freighter Conversion Agreements

Corporate Matters

  • Entity Formation
  • Flight Department Formation
  • Aircraft Use Policies
  • SEC Disclosure Issues
  • Stock/Membership Interest Purchase Agreements
 

Representative transactions

JETREP attorneys have successfully guided clients through sophisticated transactions involving most aircraft from all major private jet manufacturers, including:

 

Boeing Business Jets

  • 787-VIP
  • 767-VIP
  • 757-VIP
  • 747-VIP
  • 737-VIP

Bombardier

  • Global 7500
  • Global 6500
  • Global 6000
  • Global 5500
  • Global 5000
  • Global Express XRS
  • Challenger 650
  • Challenger 605
  • Challenger 604
  • Challenger 601
  • Challenger 600
  • Challenger 3500
  • Challenger 350
  • Challenger 300

Cessna

  • Citation X+
  • Citation Sovereign+
  • Citation Longitude
  • Citation Latitude
  • Citation XLS+
  • Citation Encore
  • Citation Ultra
  • Citation CJ4
  • Citation CJ3+
  • Citation CJ2
  • Citation CJ1
  • Citation Mustang

Dassault

  • Falcon 8X
  • Falcon 7X
  • Falcon 6X
  • Falcon 10
  • Falcon 900B
  • Falcon 900EX
  • Falcon 900LX
  • Falcon 2000LX EASy
  • Falcon 2000LXS
  • Falcon 2000S
  • Falcon 50
  • Falcon 20

Embraer

  • Lineage 1000E
  • Praetor 600
  • Praetor 500
  • Legacy 500
  • Legacy 450
  • Phenom 300E
  • Phenom 100

Gulfstream

  • G800
  • G700
  • G650ER
  • G650
  • G600
  • G550
  • G500
  • G-V
  • G450
  • G-IV
  • G280
  • G200
  • G150
  • G100

Hawker

  • 4000
  • 1000
  • 900XP
  • 850XP
  • 800
  • 400
  • King Air

Learjet

  • 75
  • 65
  • 60
  • 55
  • 45XR
  • 45
  • 40

Piaggio

  • P.180 Avanti

Pilatus

  • PC-24
  • PC-12

ABOUT US

MEET RYAN NICHOLS


Ryan Nichols is a highly experienced aviation attorney and founder of JETREP. He represents and advises clients — including many of the world's wealthiest individuals and most successful public and private companies — on a very broad range of aviation transactions and related matters. Having played an instrumental role in hundreds of transactions with a cumulative value over five billion dollars, Ryan is distinctively qualified to assist clients with any aviation-related matter, regardless of complexity, size, and scope.

Ryan’s practice includes structuring, drafting, and negotiating aircraft purchase, sale, lease, and financing transaction documents, including letters of intent, aircraft purchase and sale agreements, fractional aircraft interest agreements, aircraft lease agreements, and aircraft financing agreements; devising aircraft ownership and operating structures in compliance with applicable regulations and with an eye toward achieving maximum tax efficiency; federal income tax planning, including advising on depreciation and personal use disallowance issues; state sales and use tax planning; advising on aircraft management arrangements; and advising on SEC disclosure issues related to personal use of company aircraft.

Contact us

INQUIRIES@JETREP.COM

+1 (425) 800-8888

JETREP PLLC
23515 NE Novelty Hill Rd
STE B221 #155
Redmond, WA 98053