David Maughan is internationally recognised as a leading finance lawyer in Dublin, continuously ranked in prominent journals as one of Ireland’s leading lawyers.
David advises on aviation, asset-finance and debt capital markets transactions.
Recent deals that David advised on include:
- Nordic Aviation Capital on its bankruptcy and unsecured bond restructuring
- KfW on its financing of locomotives for Rive Rail
- Smurfit Kappa on its corporate and green bond issuances
- Guotai Junan Securities on its repackaging programmes
- auxmoney on its warehousing and ABS of consumer loans
- LähiTapiola Rahoitus Oy on its auto loan securitisations
- Pollen Street Capital on its property-backed receivable lending note platforms
- British Airways’ EETC issuances
- Proventus Capital on a share receiver appointment to Montrose Global aircraft group
- Dublin Port infrastructure bonds
2025 Chambers Europe
"David is extremely commercial and knowledgeable of the aviation industry." "David Maughan is very helpful and commercial."
2025 Legal 500 EMEA
David is ranked as a Leading Partner in Legal 500 for Asset Finance.
2025 Chambers Global
"David is extremely commercial and knowledgeable of the aviation industry." "David Maughan is very helpful and commercial."
2025 IFLR 1000
“David is a very knowledgeable and experienced counsel. He has worked on a very wide range of transaction structures and is able to provide effective advice on aircraft financing transactions and structures of all types.”
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