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City aviation finance partner Rob Murphy, the global head of asset finance and co-head of the aviation sector group, is retiring at the end of the year to join CDB Aviation Lease Finance — the aircraft leasing unit of China Development Bank — as general counsel and chief operating officer.
Freshfields has once again been streamlining its finance offering, shedding
its City aviation finance team amid a wider shakeup of the practice that is expected to result in a number of partner exits.