Clifford Chance
Anna Mammedova specialises in financing, leasing, trading and complex asset and project finance structured transactions. She advises banks, borrowers, private investment firms, export credit agencies, credit risk insurance providers, leasing companies and government departments.
Anna is currently located in London but has experience working in Clifford Chance's Paris office, as well as completing a secondment at Castlelake. Anna also has experience working as Legal Adviser to the UK government's export credit agency, UK Export Finance.
- Advised UK Export Finance and Santander on the refinancing and upsize of the UKEF supported Export Development Guarantee working capital facility provided by Santander to DEA Aviation Limited
- Advised Balthazar Insurers on several insurance backed and diversely- structured the financing by major international banks of the purchase of new Airbus aircraft for Turkish Airlines, Pegasus, Ethiopian Airlines, Air France, Cathay Pacific, Asiana, Singapore Airlines, Iberia and operating lessors such as AVIC, Goal and JLPS. Multiple awards in numerous Airfinance Journal categories over the years
- Advised Castlelake on a pre-delivery payment (PDP) financing to Gulf Air for 10 Airbus A321neo aircraft. Innovative Deal of the Year, Airfinance Journal Global Awards, 2023
- Advised Wizz Air on a $280m pre-delivery payment (PDP) financing by Carlyle Aviation for several A321neo aircraft
- Advised an internationally recognised aircraft lessor and servicer on a revolving freighter warehouse facility provided by an international bank to finance the acquisition and conversion of passenger and freighter conversion aircraft
- Advised Altavair on acquisition of four Boeing 787-9 aircraft on lease to LATAM from Vmo Leasing
- Advised Nordic Aviation Capital (NAC) on portfolio sale to Falko of 24 Embraer E-Jets on lease to operators in North America, Europe and Africa
- Advised a syndicate of banks on various secured portfolio financings and working capital liquidity facilities for AerCap
- Advised major lessors and banks to Malaysia Airlines in relation to the restructuring of the airline through a UK scheme of arrangement
- Advised two major aircraft lessors on sale and leaseback of several A321neo aircraft for IndiGo
- Advised Rock Rail and abrdn Core Infrastructure on financing the purchase and leaseback of 31 x 6-car Talent 3 Plus electrical trains from Alstom for the Baden-Württemberg and Saale-Thuringia-Southern Harz (STS) networks in Germany
- Advised Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and UK Government Investments on the novation from Bombardier Inc to Spirit Aerosystems Inc. of certain repayable investment agreements granted to Short Brothers plc., and the subsequent prepayment of the same
- Advised a syndicate of 9 international banks on a secured financing for semiconductor equipment in Dresden, Germany
- Advised an international bank on equity bridge loans to Equitix to finance the construction of a waste wood biomass plant in Belgium
- Advised a large syndicate of ECA supported banks on the financing of the €6.2bn Trans Adriatic Pipeline. PFI European Oil & Gas Deal of the Year 2018. TXF Perfect 10 Deal of the Year, 2019. Gas Project of the Year, Gastech Awards 2021
News and client work
Contact details
- Clifford Chance, London
- +442070062279
- Email me
- Speaks English, Turkish and Azerbaijani
- Practice area Global Financial Markets
Career and qualifications
- London School of Economics and Political Science (LLB) 2015
- Joined Clifford Chance 2016
- Admitted as a solicitor in England & Wales 2018
Professional bodies
- Law Society of England & Wales