Amy Blackburn Wages' practice concentrates on corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions and business law. Additionally, Amy represents domestic and international clients in aviation transactions involving the acquisition, financing, fractional ownership and leasing of new and used corporate aircraft, including import/export, completion, charter, timeshare and shared use agreements, maintenance, ownership structure and operational issues as well as the purchase, sale and lease of ex-commercial aircraft fleets, engines and aircraft parts. Amy also represents a cargo air carrier and other aviation-related businesses in acquisitions, financing and general corporate matters.

From 1996 to 1997, Amy was a visiting lecturer at the Faculty of Management at Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia. In addition, Amy served as a clerk for the Honorable K. Dawson Jackson, Chief Judge of Gwinnett Superior Court in Georgia, from 1994 to 1996.

Sample Corporate Aircraft Transactions:

• Purchase of Boeing 727-100 VIP Aircraft and related leases
• Purchase of Citation II Aircraft
• Two (2) separate purchases of Citation Excel 560-XL Aircraft
• Charter of Citation Excel 560-5023 Aircraft
• Purchase of a Citation CJ2+ Aircraft
• Lease of Cessna Citation 550 Aircraft
• Sale of Cessna Citation VII Aircraft
• Purchase of and sale of Canadair CL-600 Challenger Aircraft
• Lease of Canadair Challenger 604 Aircraft
• Sale of Dauphin II Helicopter
• Three (3) separate purchases of Falcon 900B Aircraft and three (3) related leases
• Two (2) separate sales of Falcon 900B Aircraft
• Purchase of Falcon 10 Aircraft and related lease
• Two (2) separate purchases and three (3) separate sales of Falcon 50 Aircraft
• Purchase of Augusta Grand Helicopter
• Purchase of Bombardier Global Express Aircraft
• One (1) purchase and two (2) separate sales of Gulfstream G200 Aircraft
• Lease of two (2) Gulfstream G200 Aircraft
• Sale of Gulfstream IV SP Aircraft
• Long-term charter of Raytheon Hawker 800 Aircraft
• Two (2) separate sales of King Air 350 Aircraft
• Sale of Learjet 31 Aircraft
• Lease of Learjet 60 Aircraft
• Purchase of Raytheon Premier I Aircraft
• Purchase of one (1) and lease of three (3) Saab 340A Aircraft