UKEF General Aerospace Legal Panel (GALP)

Department for International Trade (DIT), on behalf of UK Export Finance (UKEF) as Contracting Authority, intends to put in place a panel for the provision of services of external legal counsel to advise in relation to the financial support that UKEF provides to the aerospace and defence sector. In general terms, advice will relate to transactions for the financing of:

• Airbus aircraft where legal counsel is not otherwise procured from a separate panel established jointly by UKEF and the French and German Export Credit Agencies;
• aircraft produced by other manufacturers (e.g., Boeing); and
• aircraft engines and other aerospace assets and services. This includes restructuring and post-issue work relating to such transactions. DIT and UKEF intend to hold joint market engagement in February 2021 with suppliers who express an interest in potentially bidding for a place of the panel.