Brendan Lord | Senior Associate

Brendan is a senior associate at Norton White in both the litigation and commercial sector.

Expertise & Experience

  • Negotiating and drafting aircraft sale and purchase contracts, operating leases, finance leases and other agreements for aircraft, rotorcraft, drones and other transport equipment

  • Regulatory advice on the Civil Aviation Act 1988 (Cth) and associated instruments

  • Cross-border financing and leasing

  • Advising on key current and emergent issues of air transport law and policy

  • Acting on M&A transactions for businesses with a transport focus

Prior to joining Norton White in 2019, Brendan interned in a top aviation firm in London, studied at the University of Vienna and Utrecht University, the Netherlands, and has been working in the legal industry since his first job as a law clerk in 2012.

Awards & Qualifications

  • Doyles Guide Rising Star Transport Law (Australia) 2022 and 2024

  • Treasurer Aviation Law Association of Australia and New Zealand (NSW Branch) 2019-present

  • Executive Committee - Australian Business Aviation Association

  • Advanced Masters of Air and Space Law (summa cum laude); Dux 2017-2018

  • European Aviation Law Association Essay Prize (2018)

Publications

'The Agency Agreement Between Travel Agents and Airlines in the Digital Milieu: Perspectives from Competition Law' (2018) 4-5 Air and Space Law 43.

‘The Protection of Personal Data in International Civil Aviation: The Transatlantic Clash of Opinions’ (2019) 3 Air and Space Law 44.

‘On the Economic Uses of Outer Space: A Clash of Values’ (2019) 2 Air and Space Law 44.

‘On the Future of Sovereignty in International Civil Aviation’ in Behind and Beyond the Chicago Convention: the Evolution of Aerial Sovereignty, e.d. Pablo Mendes De Leon (Kluwer, 2019)