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Over 17 years of legal support practice in aviation business projects

All our aviation legal expets worked as in-house lawyers in major Russian airlines, as well as in business aviation, for many years.

Owing to such experience, we understand inside workflows of aviation enterprises, and the real need for legal support.

Combining of such experience with our knowledge as external legal counsels allowed us to create a unique conception as: “External in-house lawyer”.

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External in-house lawyers – is a team of legal professionals.

Current legal support of airline activity requires full immersion into the workflows.

Only a team of legal professionals may advise, represent the interests in court, guide transactions, corporate operations, manage passenger claims and state authorities claims, register trademarks and real esteta, conduct clerical legal work.

For many years of implementation of “External in-house lawyer” conception we have managed to assemble a team of legal professionals, which is able to legally support any airline.

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Comprehensive A to Z legal support through «one-stop» approach

Today our team consists of more than 30 lawyers, including narrowly focused specialists of aviation profile, intellectual property protection, corporate, labor law and litigation, contractual arrangements and schemes establishment.

· conducting negotiations with foreign counterparties

· legal support of transactions set forth by supply agreements, lease of aircraft, maintenance of aircraft, engines and aircraft components

· claim related work with passengers and counterparties

· protection of interests of airlines in labor and other disputes with aviation personnel;

· safeguarding the Client’s interests to the aviation, customs and other state authorities, appealing against their actions and decisions

· if required, a lawyer workplace arrangement at the airline’s office.

«For 17 years, I have assembled a team of aviation lawyers capable of solving any problem».

Svetlana Starodubova
Executive director — Deputy General Director on Aviation Projects

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INDUSTRY NEWS AND GALLERY

OUR AVIATION CLIENTS

  • Sergey Vlasov (General Director of JSC «Air Management Group»)
    BLS CUSTOS GROUP has been our legal support partners for many years.  I am confident that BLS CUSTOS GROUP's lawyers will be able to promptly resolve the most unusual issue. More than once we were impressed with their competence in matters of making international transactions, as well as in the day-to-day legal support of the airline's operation.
  • Mikhail Markov (General Director of «Sky Partner» Ltd.)
    We often face challenging tasks and BLS CUSTOS GROUP's lawyers have been helping us for several years in legal support of the most complex aviation projects on management and organization of aircraft flight and technical operations.
  • Igor Bublovsky (General Director of MSKY LLC)
    Business aviation is an area where it is of utmost importance to have a partner you trust. BLS CUSTOS GROUP's lawyers have been involved in our company's projects for several years and have proven themselves as high-level professionals with an unconventional approach to solving complex problems.
  • Alexandra Shumaeva (General Director of DreamJet LLC)
    BLS CUSTOS GROUP provides support 24/7, you can ask for advice at any moment, when time is of the essence and, as is often the case in business aviation, everything is “on fire” and solutions were needed yesterday. For several years this company has been a reliable partner for us, to whom we entrust legal issues.
  • Sergey Trifonov (General Director of «Jetica» LLC)
    BLS CUSTOS GROUP's lawyers have accumulated considerable experience in supporting the airlines activities in the area of business aviation, which allows us to take into account all the nuances of the airline's operation and be sure that all changes in legislation and cases from practice will be taken into consideration when solving the tasks.
  • Solovyov Peter (Board member of LLC «Aircompany «Ikar»)
    WE ENTERED THE INTERNATIONAL PASSENGER AIR CARRIAGE MARKET TOGETHER WITH OUR PRIVATE EXTERNAL IN-HOUSE LAWYER.
    BLS CUSTOS GROUP has been our legal support partners since LLC «Aircompany «Ikar» entered the international passenger air carriage market. During the start-up stage, BLS CUSTOS GROUP has prepared and formalized the full scope of required contracts and agreements with airports, fueling companies and other service organizations. During the stage of active growth, as our fleet size increased, the lawyers of BLS CUSTOS GROUP provided comprehensive legal assistance for aircraft leasing deals with our overseas partners from the negotiations began to the start of commercial aircraft use.
  • Igor Schvetsov (General Director of LLC NORD WIND)
    AT FIRST, WE ENSURED THEIR COURT REPRESENTATIVES' QUALIFICATIONS.
    BLS CUSTOS GROUP is our external in-house lawyers. Our collaboration with BLS CUSTOS GROUP began with their legal experts representing our interests in court. After a sequence of successfully resolved cases, we began entrusting our contractual and even corporate matters to them, as BLS CUSTOS GROUP employs experts in these and other areas of law. As of this moment, we have fully delegated our legal support and we have been enjoying more benefits than we had ever expected.