Boeing GC Leads In-House Team in $18 Billion Deal With Emirates Airlines

November 15, 2011 6:02 PM

Boeing GC Leads In-House Team in $18 Billion Deal With Emirates Airlines

Posted by Brian Baxter

In what the company described as the largest order in its 95-year history, Boeing announced Monday that it has reached an agreement to sell at least 50 planes to Dubai-based Emirates Airlines for $18 billion.

Boeing has freqently turned to Kirkland Ellis for the bulk of its corporate work since moving its headquarters to Chicago last decade, according to our previous reports. For example, the firm advised the aircraft manufacturer last year on its $775 million acquisition of defense manufacturer Argon ST.

For this transaction, though, Boeing relied solely on its in-house lawyers, according to general counsel J. Michael Luttig.

Luttig became Boeing’s general counsel in 2006 after stepping down from a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. At the time, he was reportedly a contender for a nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, according to a story by sibling publication The National Law Journal.

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