Mehtap Cevher Conti

Mehtap Cevher Conti

Partner Corporate & Finance

New York

+1 212 918 3617

mehtap.cevherconti@hoganlovells.com

Languages

English, Turkish

Mehtap Cevher Conti

Overview
Experience
Credentials
Insights and events

Mehtap is easy to work with, quick and responsive.
Chambers USA, 2025

Mehtap Cevher Conti concentrates her practice on asset finance, particularly in the aviation and transportation industries.

Her broad-based experience includes working with clients on secured debt, export credit agency supported transactions, revolving credit facilities, finance leases, operating leases, and portfolio acquisitions as well as asset-backed structured financings for commercial and investment banks, financial institutions, aircraft operating lessors, and airlines. She also advises clients on the purchase and financing of corporate aircraft and helicopters.

Mehtap frequently handles finance transactions that involve multiple global jurisdictions. She is a native of Turkey and is fluent in Turkish.

Prior to joining the firm, Mehtap was in private practice, where she focused on global transportation finance. She has been recognized by Chambers & Partners for Transportation: Aviation: Finance and she has been recognized by the Women in Business Law Americas Awards in 2025 in the North American Aviation Lawyer of the Year category.

Mehtap is actively involved in the aviation industry through her membership in various trade associations and her service with charitable organizations. She served as a Governing Committee Member of the American Bar Association’s Forum on Air & Space Law for five years. Other organizations that she regularly participates in include the International Society of Transport Aircraft Traders (ISTAT), the International Aviation Womens Association (IAWA) and the Advancing Women in Aviation Roundtable (AWAR). Mehtap is also committed to Airlink (a global humanitarian organization delivering critical aid to communities in crisis by providing free airlift and logistical solutions) and serves as an Ambassador to Airlink.

Mehtap is easy to work with, quick and responsive.
Chambers USA, 2025

Representative experience

Pembroke Capital in connection with the sale and leaseback of six Airbus A321-200 aircraft for Delta Air Lines.

Pembroke Capital in connection with the sale and leaseback of 10 Boeing 737-800 aircraft for Southwest Airlines.

AviLease on its sale and leaseback of six Airbus A321neo aircraft with Frontier Airlines.

A European bank in connection with numerous term loan facilities secured by corporate aircraft.

Aviation Capital Group in connection with the finance lease of one Boeing 737-800 aircraft to Air North.

Castlelake in connection with the lease of one Airbus A330-200 aircraft and the lease of one spare engine to Turkish Airlines.

Stonepeak in connection with aviation matters in its $3.1bn take-private acquisition of Air Transport Services Group.

Stonepeak in connection with aviation and supply chain contracts matters in its €2bn acquisition of Forgital Group from The Carlyle Group.

VivaAerobús on a number of secured loan facilities, upsizing of these facilities and a number of aircraft acquisitions.

A U.S. Airline on its acquisition of seven Boeing 777-200ER aircraft from Delta Air Lines.

Private Export Funding Corporation (PEFCO) in connection with its US EXIM-supported financing for The Bahrain Petroleum Company for an oil and gas field development project.

PEFCO and Apple Bank in a first-time co-risk mitigant structure to finance the purchase of a new Gulfstream G700 aircraft.

A European airline in connection with the restructuring of its various credit facilities.

Wheels Up as aviation counsel in two separate transactions involving its acquisitions of Mountain Aviation and Alante Air Charter.

Advised NetJets in connection with its investment and lease arrangements with Amber Aviation.

Credentials

Education

J.D., Boston College Law School, cum laude, 2002
B.A., Koç University, with honors, 1998

Bar admissions and qualifications

New York
Massachusetts

Memberships

Member, International Society of Transport Aircraft Traders (ISTAT)
Member, International Aviation Womens Association (IAWA)
Board Member, Advancing Women in Aviation Roundtable (AWAR)
Former Governing Committee Member, American Bar Association, Forum on Air & Space Law