Aircraft operating leasing: a legal and practical analysis in the context of public and private international air law
Hanley, D.P.
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Hanley, D. P. (2011, November 24). Aircraft operating leasing: a legal and practical analysis in the context of public and private international air law. Retrieved from
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Donal Patrick Hanley (Domhnall Pádraig Ó hAinlighe) was born in 1964 to Donal and Norma (née Gunn) in Dublin, Ireland, where he grew up with his sister Ciara and his brother Cormac. Having lived in London, England and Tokyo, Japan, he now lives in Los Angeles, California with his wife Helen (née Chen). He retains links with Dublin as a life member of the Stephen’s Green Hibernian Club.
He was educated by the Jesuits at Belvedere College, SJ, Dublin and at the Law School of Trinity College, Dublin University, from which he graduated with an MA degree. He received a European Commission scholarship to study Japanese language and business at Tokyo School of Japanese Language and Sophia University, SJ, as part of its Executive Training Programme in Japan. He also has an MA degree in Linguistics from Monash University, which he studied by distance learning, as well as an MBA degree in International Aviation from Concordia University, Montréal and a Diploma in Air Law from the International Air Transport Association (IATA) in Montréal, where he is an instructor in the IATA Training and Development Institute. He graduated cum laude with an LLM (Adv) in Air and Space Law from Leiden University in The Netherlands and became a PhD candidate there in 2009.
He is Vice President, Legal of Aviation Capital Group Corp. (ACG), a large commercial jet aircraft leasing and asset management company owned by PacificLife Corp. With Dr.
Donald H. Bunker and others, he founded and serves on the board of directors of CIAF Leasing, a joint venture leasing aircraft leasing company, based in Cairo, Egypt, among ACG, CIAF Holding Company (headed by His Excellency Dr Medhat Hassanein, former Egyptian Finance Minister), EgyptAir and others, with the support of His Excellency Air Marshal Ahmed Shafik, former Egyptian Prime Minister and former Egyptian Minister of Civil Aviation.
He represents ACG on Cape Town Convention and legal documentation standardization matters on the Aviation Working Group (AWG), an industry association of major aircraft and aircraft engine manufacturers, lessors and financiers, and is a member of the AWG team negotiating legal documentation standardization with IATA.
Before joining ACG in 2005, he was an aircraft leasing and finance lawyer for 15 years with extensive experience, both in private practice and in house, in Ireland and England for McCann FitzGerald, in Japan for Linklaters and in the United States and The Netherlands for Tombo Aviation Inc. and other group companies of Mitsui & Co., Ltd.
He is a solicitor admitted in Ireland and England and Wales and is a member of the State Bar of California. He served as Chair of the International Law Section of the State Bar of California from 2006 to 2007.
