David G. Mayer
AIN Contributor
David G. Mayer is a partner in the global Aviation Practice Group at Shackelford, Bowen, McKinley & Norton in Dallas, which handles private aircraft matters, including regulatory compliance, tax planning, purchases, sales, leasing and financing, risk management, insurance, aircraft management and operations, hangar leasing, and related corporate work. Mayer frequently represents corporations and high and ultra-high-net worth individuals and other aircraft owners, flight departments, lessees, borrowers, operators, sellers, purchasers, corporations and managers, as well as lessors and lenders. He can be contacted at [email protected].
Latest from David G. Mayer
Aircraft
AINsight: How To Buy a Bizjet at a Fast Pace
It takes a village to keep a business aircraft transaction on track
Aircraft
AINsight: How To Structure Aircraft Co-ownership
Joint or co-ownership of aircraft can be a good option but can be a legal landmine if not done correctly
Regulations and Government
AINsight: Personal Liability of Aircraft LLC Owners
Piercing the veil isn't as difficult as many LLC owners assume
Regulations and Government
AINsight: Corporate Transparency Act Descends on Bizav
Critical to understand and comply with the new law despite its challenges and invasiveness.
Finance, Taxes, Insurance
AINsight: Strategies To Manage Aircraft Financing Costs
Cash might be king, but financing still often makes the most sense for business aircraft purchases
Charter & Fractional
AINsight: Buying/Selling a Part 135 Air Charter Business
Buying a charter operator bypasses a long application process
Aircraft
AINsight: Which Aircraft Brokers Rise Above the Field?
Finding the right fit can ease buying or selling a used business aircraft
Finance, Taxes, Insurance
AINsight: Liability Risk Management for Bizjet Owners
What does risk management mean in the concept of business aviation?
Finance, Taxes, Insurance
AINsight: Aircraft Finance Losing Altitude in Bank Crisis
Despite recent bank casualties and market volatility, most financiers can and will continue to finance private aircraft—but under stricter terms.
Aircraft
AINsight: Contract Issues Remain Hot as Jet Sales Cool
As the preowned business jet market is rebalancing to pre-pandemic norms, the devil is in the details of purchase contract terms.
Regulations and Government
AINsight: How To Protect Owner Privacy in Bizav
Privacy for business aircraft users is important, but far from guaranteed.
Aircraft
AINsight: Sacrificing Due Diligence To Buy a Bizjet
Business aircraft transactions are complex, and buyers should be seeking more, not less, due diligence when purchasing an airplane.
Finance, Taxes, Insurance
AINsight: Five Leases Power Bizjet Deals
Business aircraft buyers can miss out on the potential tax, financial, and other advantages of leasing as an alternative to cash or financed purchases.
Regulations and Government
AINsight: A FAR Out Look at Part 91 Versus 135
FARs unavoidably and significantly impact a business aircraft buyer’s business, tax, structuring, and other major decisions.
Aircraft
AINsight: Timing Counts in Buying, Financing Bizjets
With preowned business jet inventory low and demand at record highs, speed is important to successfully purchase an airplane using either financing or cash
Regulations and Government
AINsight: Will Sanctions on Russia Upend Bizjet Sales?
The Russian sanctions have implications for multi-national preowned business aircraft sale transactions.
Finance, Taxes, Insurance
AINsight: Who Gets To Fly on the Company Jet?
As companies lift restrictions on travel via business aircraft amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the time is right to reconsider aircraft use policies.
Regulations and Government
AINsight: Managing To Fly
Selecting the right management organization helps new aircraft owners get their aircraft safely off the ground.
Regulations and Government
AINsight: Aircraft Owner Trusts Under Indictment
Owner trusts provide a well understood and essential tool for ownership and financing of aircraft by citizens and non-citizens.
Regulations and Government
AINsight: Do LLCs Shield Aircraft Owners from Liability?
LLCs are not iron-clad in protecting aircraft owners from all liabilities, but they often makes sense as part of an overall aircraft ownership structure.
Finance, Taxes, Insurance
AINsight: Flying Free of Federal Excise Taxes
After years of advocacy by the bizav industry, the U.S. IRS recently shifted its position on federal excise taxes largely in favor of aircraft owners.
Aircraft
AINsight: What First-time Bizjet Buyers Need To Know
Buying a business jet is a complicated and unique transaction, demanding plenty of patience and the use of skilled advisors.
Finance, Taxes, Insurance
AINsight: How Dry Leases Can Prevent Illegal Charter
Leasing enables a lessee to lawfully “operate” and thereby exercise “operational control” over an aircraft under the FARs.
Finance, Taxes, Insurance
AINsight: 7 Avoidable Mistakes in Acquiring a Bizjet
Acquiring a private jet aircraft is fraught with the potential to make these seven expensive mistakes that can be avoided with a qualified aviation team.
Finance, Taxes, Insurance
AINsight: 5 Incentives To Finance Business Aircraft
Incentives to finance a business aircraft include cheap money, no to low cash outlay, tax write-offs, lessor/lender competition, and customized solutions.
Charter & Fractional
AINsight: Best Five Options To Fly Privately
Amid the pandemic, some families, businesses, and individuals have made a flight to safety by traveling again or for the first time on private jets.
Regulations and Government
AINsight: How To Shield Bizjet Owners from Virus Claims
Business aircraft owners should take precautions now to shield themselves from the potential of Covid-19-related claims by pasengers, crews, and others.
Finance, Taxes, Insurance
AINsight: Negotiating Business Aircraft Financing
An increasing number of high/ultra-high-net-worth individuals are increasingly using other people’s money to purchase business aircraft.
ATC
AINsight: Hot Topics for Bizav in 2020
Ethics, illegal charters, tax planning, ADS-B privacy, and aircraft insurance are the top challenges for business aviation in 2020.
Finance, Taxes, Insurance
AINsight: Limiting Risk as Liability Insurance Tightens
In the last two years, many underwriters have exited aviation insurance while those remaining have tightened underwriting standards and hiked premiums.
