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Robert
E.
Cohn
Partner, Washington, D.C.
robert.cohn@hoganlovells.com
Robert Cohn is the head of Hogan Lovells' Aviation practice group. He has focused on aviation law for decades. Mr. Cohn has a broad array of clients spanning every facet of aerospace and aviation including major U.S. scheduled airlines, foreign airlines, regional airlines, municipalities, airport owners and operators, charter airlines, helicopter operators, new entrant airlines, low cost carriers, aircraft manufacturers, maintenance/repair/overhaul companies, industry trade associations, tour operators/travel agencies, aviation technology companies, and airline venture capital investor groups.
He practices extensively before various agencies of the federal government on transportation and aviation issues, including the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Department of State (DOS), and Department of Justice (DOJ) and before Congress.
Mr. Cohn's varied practice includes counseling and representation of airports and airlines in connection DOT and FAA regulatory and compliance issues, international airline alliances, including antitrust immunity and joint ventures, DOT route proceedings, airport slots, and domestic and international air service development. He advises clients on Airport Improvement Program (AIP) grants and Passenger Facility Charge (PFC) authorizations, environmental issues, airport rates and charges and revenue use issues, airport and airline security, bankruptcy, antitrust, and aircraft certification. Mr. Cohn also advises clients in appellate and trial litigation in the federal courts, and on legislative matters in Congress.
Mr. Cohn's practice also includes complex commercial transactions, including airline alliances and joint ventures, airport use and lease agreements, aircraft acquisitions and financing, mergers and acquisitions, U.S. Export Import Bank financings, and public private partnerships. He is outside aviation counsel to major airports. He served as aviation counsel to consortia considering bids to privatize two U.S. airports. He also served as regulatory and transactional counsel to an airport commission established to develop a new third airport in the south suburbs of Chicago.
Before entering private practice, Mr. Cohn held a number of senior policy positions at the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB), including executive assistant to three CAB Members, including the Chairman of the CAB. He was also general counsel to People Express Airlines, one of the largest post-deregulation new entrant airlines.
Hogan Lovells Publications
11 January 2012
"Hogan Lovells wins important victory for client Republic Airline in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District Columbia Circuit." Aviation and Surface Transportation Alert, Hogan Lovells
21 April 2011
"Enhancing airline passenger protections rule." Aviation Alert, Hogan Lovells
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