Dallas, Texas
- Dallas (Principal Office)
- (214) 780-1400
David G. Mayer
David G. Mayer
Partner
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9201 N. Central Expressway
Fourth Floor
Dallas, Texas 75231
- Texas, 1996;
- California, 1992;
- New York, 1978;
- Juris Doctor, Case Western Reserve University School, Cleveland, Ohio
- Bachelor of Arts, Summa Cum Laude, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
- New York University, New York, New York, 1975
- The National Aircraft Finance Association (NAFA),
- The National Business Aviation Association (NBAA),
- The Equipment Leasing and Finance Association (ELFA)
- ELFF, the Dallas Bar Association and the American Bar Association.
About David G. Mayer
David’s practice mainly focuses on private aviation and other equipment transactions worldwide. David devotes most of his time to business aircraft matters, including transaction structuring, negotiation and drafting; federal regulatory compliance; federal and state tax planning, purchases, sales, financing, leasing, risk management, and OEM customer purchases and disputes. His clients include high wealth and company private jet owners, operators, corporate flight departments and management companies. He continues to use and build on decades of experience representing lessors, lenders and other financiers in leasing and secured lending on other personal property. His tasks range from simple to the complex. For aviation, he often starts advising his clients from the beginning of the aircraft experience and lasting throughout the life of ownership, leasing, operation and disposition of the aircraft.
David’s blend of experience differentiates him from other aviation and leasing lawyers. His wide industry and legal knowledge, gained over more than 35 years as a corporate and law firm lawyer, provides tools for David to be practical, clear and insightful in working with clients and other parties. David’s background enables him, for example, to identify and efficiently help resolve issues that arise in transactions, corporate planning. He strives to resolve disputes short of litigation. As a result, transactions and other matters he handles typically progress smoothly as he guides the parties to a reasonable resolution of their concerns. Knowing many financiers and their counsel facilitates respectful negotiations and the formation of beneficial relationships by all parties.
David believes strongly in a simple idea: The client comes first. He assists each client by using all his legal and other industry resources to solve problems and help achieve the client’s preferred outcomes. He earns his client’s trust, as an advisor and advocate, in part, by listening and striving to understand his client’s relevant business activity and situational needs. David seeks to build a quality relationship with each client, to serve with integrity, and to add value in all aspects of his representation and advice.
A significant part of his transactions cover all types and sizes of general aviation aircraft. David structures, negotiates and documents, among others, purchase, sale, joint operating, pilot services, charter, repair, personnel, charter lease and management agreements, secured loans, “dry,” “wet” and operating leases, tax leases, synthetic leases and sale-leasebacks. He also assists on aircraft incidents/accidents, warranty claims, corporate structuring, litigation, federal and state tax structuring and insurance and vendor/OEM disputes.
David’s other lending and leasing transactions relate to a wide array of equipment. In addition to aircraft, his leasing and lending transactions involve financing of energy, fixtures, construction (i.e., “yellow iron”) and transportation, furniture, technology and health care assets.
Since the publication of his book, Business Leasing For Dummies, David has been an active speaker, writer and editor. His engagements have included private client and conference speaking opportunities and publications of more than 160 articles, 91 issues of a newsletter he founded in 2002 called “Business Leasing and Finance News,” and a 122 page ”study” commissioned by the Equipment Leasing and Finance Foundation (ELFF) on the future of business aviation. The American Bar Association published his co-authored article titled: “Texas–Size Challenges in State Sales and Use Tax Planning for Private Aircraft Transactions.” Writing has honed his ability to analyze problems and issues, serve as an industry thought leader and deliver practical, strategic and useful solutions or explanations in a cost-effective manner.
Other Selected Publications
- 100 Percent Bonus Depreciation for Private Aircraft,” MoneyInc.com (Sept. 30, 2018).
- AINsight: Tips for Buying Jets Outside the U.S. (July 13, 2018).
- AINsight: Ethics Not Antithetical to Back-to-back Deals (May 11, 2018).
- AINsight: 100% Depreciation and Aircraft Personal Use (March 8, 2018).
- AINsight: Tax Reform a Deal Changer for Bizav (Jan. 11, 2018).
- AINsight: Should Aircraft Owners Worry About Their Pilots? AvBuyer.com (Dec. 22, 2017).
- Action Alert: 4 reasons to install “NextGen” equipment in business aircraft sooner than later,” by David G. Mayer, NAFA online (May 2, 2017).
- Texas–Size Challenges in State Sales and Use Tax Planning for Private Aircraft Transactions, by David G. Mayer and David T. Norton, American Bar Association, Air & Space Lawyer, Vol. 28, Number 1 (April 2015).
- So Why Do You Need a Good Aviation Lawyer? by David G. Mayer, Jetset Magazine (Jan. 16, 2015).
- Don’t Let Marijuana Ground Your Jet, AvBuyer.com*World Aviation Magazine by David G. Mayer (May 2014).
- Business Aircraft Transactions…Five of the Hottest Issues by David G. Mayer and David T. Norton, Monitor, Xander Media Group (Issue: Nov. – Dec. 2013).
- Cash is King for Private Jet Buyers * Private Jet Buyers Reluctant to Finance, by David G. Mayer, Jetset Magazine (April – May 2014).
- Business Aircraft Gaining Altitude * From Recession to Recovery: Transactions Build Momentum Despite Industry Challenges by David G. Mayer, ELFF commissioned this exclusive, global study with oversight by the NBAA and other experts, looking at the trends and legal issues in business aviation, the 122-page (2013).
- Why Most Private Aircraft Operators Violate the FAA’s Operating Rules * A Persistent Dilemma by David G. Mayer and David T. Norton, LNJ’s Equipment Leasing Newsletter (November and December 2013). [Subscription required for access to full length article.]
- Business Leasing and Finance News, an online finance newsletter with subscribers in approximately 33 countries as of 2012, founded by David G. Mayer (published for 10 years by Patton Boggs LLP: Jan. 2002 – July 2012). [Hyperlinked sample is summer 2012.]
- True Leases Under Attack: Lessors Face Persistent Challenges to True Lease Transactions by David G. Mayer, Journal on Equipment Lease Financing, Special Issue (Vol. 23 • No. 3, Fall 2005/Part B). Awarded: Article of Year 2005 by the ELFF.
