TRANSACTIONS
Mr. Lapayowker has personally handled the following transactions, among others:
Negotiated the purchase of one of the first Boeing Business Jets and Global Express aircraft, the first operational Eurocopter EC 155B VIP-configured helicopter delivered in the United States, as well as the related financing and completion arrangements
Represented aircraft owner in connection with arrangements for having its aircraft appear in the MGM major motion picture James Bond 007 Casino Royale starring Daniel Craig
Honors
Mr. Lapayowker’s honors include:
- Selected for inclusion in 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America.
- Selected for South Florida’s Best Lawyers (2009 Edition; Incisive Media)
- Selected as a Top Lawyer by South Florida Legal Guide 2009 (Volume 1, Number 1, 2008)
- Quoted in Daily Business Review, March 24, 2008 (John Pacenti, Justice Watch, Feds Take Closer Look at Aircraft Deals)
- Selected for Who’s Who Legal – Florida 2008; Aviation (Law Business Research Ltd.)
- Selected for South Florida Super Lawyers 2007 (June 2007)
- Featured in The Miami Herald, Job File (Closing the Deal on their next set of Wings) (June 4, 2007)
- Quoted in Worth Magazine, April 2007 (Connecting Flight)
- Cited in United States of America v. Lake, 10th Cir. U.S. Ct. App. (Jan. 5, 2007)
- Quoted in Base and Bonus, 2006, Volume 2 No. 12, page 3 (Does Empty Return Flight Count as Comp)
- Quoted in Base and Bonus, 2006, Volume 2, No. 7, Page 11 (BofA Execs Getting Steeper Jet Valuation)
- Selected as on of Florida’s “Legal Elite” by Florida Trend Magazine in 2004.
- Selected as one of “The Best of the Bar 2003” in South Florida by the South Florida Business Journal in the area of Corporate/Business Aviation
- Rated “AV Preeminent 5.0 out of 5” by Martindale-Hubbell