Bart Peters

Managing Attorney - Business Aviation Law Group

For more than twelve years, Bart has represented aircraft owners and operators providing turnkey transactional and tax legal services designed to maximize federal income tax savings, minimize state sales and use taxes and property tax and manage federal excise tax, while ensuring compliance with federal and state regulatory agencies. He assists aircraft owners and operators in identifying efficient corporate entity structures for aircraft acquisition and operation, compliant with FAA commercial and noncommercial regulations and federal and state tax law, while controlling liability exposure. He has drafted and negotiated hundreds of purchase and sale agreements, operating agreements, aircraft leases, hangar leases, marketing agreements, and charter and management agreements, in addition to documenting numerous commercial finance transactions. Bart has prosecuted state and federal tax audits on behalf of aircraft owners. Prior to his practice in aviation law, he served as general counsel to two affiliated national media enterprises.

After graduating both the University of Connecticut School of Law and the University of Connecticut Graduate School of Business, Bart joined a major regional law firm where he practiced in the areas of private equity finance and general corporate law including transactions, securities, technology, commercial finance, corporate governance, employment, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic alliances. He is admitted to the Bars of Connecticut and Florida.

Bart is a student pilot, a member of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, the National Business Aviation Association, and an amateur sports car racer.