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Fast Freeman finished Freshfields

01 March 2005

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Mark Freeman has been a partner at London law firm Freshfields since 1974 and has specialized in financial law, including aircraft and asset finance. Freeman qualified in 1962, and he joined Freshfields the day after at a time when the firm had only 18 partners and four departments. He began work on a mixture of corporate and financial law, and worked on transactions such as the first euro dollar loans, or syndicated bank loans. He then began working on new asset financing transactions, for aircraft and ships, for companies such as Gatx, Chemical Bank and Itel. Freeman was made partner in 1974, when he took over the running of the finance practice. He continued to work on numerous aircraft and ship financing transactions, and in 1981 he did the first double dip lease for American Airlines and worked worked on a number of subsequent double dip transactions including one for the most expensive...


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