Mark Bisset

Mark Bisset

Clyde & Co is a global law firm with a focus on five core sectors: transport, insurance, energy, trade & commodities and infrastructure. The firm employs 2,200 legal professionals in 52 offices in every global region. Clyde & Co is recognised by the legal directories as the world's pre-eminent aviation law firm.

Mark is Clyde & Co's global head of Aviation Finance. Mark's experience extends for over 20 years and includes loan and lease financing, operating leases and tax-based leases, export credit finance, and aircraft trading, in a wide variety of jurisdictions. Mark's Finance team won Airline Economics - Law Firm of the Year in 2016.

Mark is very active in the business jet market (acting for banks, owners and operators). Mark also has extensive aviation regulatory experience and led the Clyde & Co team which wrote an extensive report for the European Business Aviation Association (EBAA) on the legal implications of Brexit for business aviation (February 2018).

Mark is recognised as a leading aviation/asset finance practitioner in the UK directories. Who's Who Legal Aviation has commented that Mark is an "exceptional finance lawyer with extensive knowledge of both the commercial airline and business jet market" and lists him as a global 2020 Thought Leader for aircraft finance. Mark is ranked as a Band 1 individual in Private Aircraft (Global-wide) in Chambers High Net Worth.

Mark is contributing editor of the annual Lexology publication "Getting the Deal Through - Aviation Finance and Leasing" and is a Guest Lecturer in aircraft finance at the International Institute of Air and Space Law, Leiden University.

Mark's team recently won 4 major awards: CACIB-arranged French tax lease financing of one (1) Boeing 777-F aircraft with ICBC put option for Turkish Airlines (Airline Economics Lease Deal of the Year 2018); AFIC-supported French tax lease financing of one (1) Boeing 737-MAX-8 aircraft and one (1) Boeing 787-9 aircraft (Global Transport Finance 2018 Aircraft Tax Lease of the Year and Airline Economics Aviation 100 Middle East & Africa Editor’s Deal of the Year); and sale and leaseback of two A220-300 aircraft with Avation plc (AirFinance Journal Operating Lease Deal of the Year 2018).