Amanda helps clients negotiate and finalize sophisticated commercial contracts—especially those that require a new strategy or a different framework.
Amanda’s primary focus is commercial contracting, generally for agreements worth tens of millions of dollars in goods or services. Many of her contracts involve essential company functions or critical supplies, and they can often be as transformational as major mergers and acquisitions. Amanda has assisted clients with a wide variety of service contracts, supply agreements, and manufacturing contracts, including those that establish the sourcing of raw materials, the sale and purchase of chemicals, white label and cobranding agreements, and exclusivity provisions. She works with clients of all sizes, ranging from solely-owned enterprises to Fortune 100 companies and other major corporations.
Best known for creating unique contracts that address novel situations, Amanda especially enjoys helping clients work out the details of new relationships and plans. She loves negotiating contracts that have no template or precedent, and she regularly supports clients as they form ongoing strategic relationships with new business partners.
In addition to her commercial contracting work, Amanda is one of a small population of U.S. attorneys involved in major aircraft acquisitions. She has handled billion-dollar purchasing transactions of large aircraft for major commercial airlines and has served as special counsel in providing lex situs options for foreign lenders in connection with aircraft acquisition, disposition, and financing transactions. Amanda also negotiates routine commercial contracts for major commercial airlines, and aviation clients seek her advice on regulatory matters with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Department of Transportation (DOT). She is the only attorney at the firm to have assisted a client in obtaining a DOT Certificate of Authorization, which allows aircraft charter companies to operate large aircraft as part of their charter operations.
Amanda has a reputation for her practical thinking, and she aims to draft contracts that not only work legally but also make sense in practical business terms. Throughout her career, she has been seconded to various manufacturing clients—an experience that has made her sharply aware of the day-to-day business realities that make or break commercial contracts. Amanda also understands the long-term relationships these contracts often establish, and she works closely with clients to ensure that the terms of an agreement set organizations up for lasting success with their business partners.