Donald Gray
Of Counsel - Aviation And Aerospace
Miami, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolDonald Gray is a distinguished aviation and aerospace lawyer with over three decades of hands-on experience advising global lessors, financiers, manufacturers and airlines on complex aircraft finance, regulatory and insolvency matters. He built and led Canada’s largest and top-ranked aviation practice, has advised on financing or refinancing of more than 900 aircraft, and played a central role for financiers in virtually every major Canadian airline bankruptcy over the past 25 years. Now Of Counsel in Holland & Knight’s Miami Global Aviation Practice and a member of the Hague Court of Arbitration for Aviation advisory board, he combines transactional creativity (including pioneering non‑US EETC deals) with deep policy influence—having helped shape Cape Town Convention implementation and Canadian aviation regulation. Equally comfortable in high-stakes restructurings, cross-border M&A and government advisory work, he brings rare institutional memory across airlines, lessors and OEMs. A former airline VP and Coast Guard quartermaster, he pairs legal mastery with operational insight into aviation systems and risk.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Senior Matriculation, Senior Matriculation at Upper Canada CollegeBachelor of Arts - BA, International Politics, Bachelor of Arts - BA, International Politics at Western UniversityLL.B., Faculty of Law, LL.B., Faculty of Law at University of WindsorExchange Program Credits in International Aviation Law, Exchange Program Credits in International Aviation Law at Wayne State University Law School
Github Skills (15)
cpp6
cmake5
snap5
ninja5
linux4
react4
package-manager3
javascript3
conan3
database2
music2
java-api1
api1
java1
music-programming1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
SongBase/Audovia
Jul 2015 - May 2022
Contributions:5 releases, 52 commits, 98 pushes in 6 years 11 months
SongBase/songbase.github.io
Apr 2015 - Jan 2023
Contributions:444 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 10 months
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