Alexandra Johnson

Primary Focus & Experience

Ms. Johnson regularly represents underwriters, issuers, lenders, lessors, borrowers, credit insurers and equity and debt investors. Her experience includes a variety of international financial and corporate transactions, including portfolio securitizations, CLOs, acquisition financing, mergers and acquisitions and secured lending, that involve transportation assets, such as aircraft, railcars and loan obligations collateralized by aviation-related assets. Ms. Johnson has worked on some of the most complex and innovative financings involving aircraft, including many that have been recognized by industry publications as “Deals of the Year.”

Ms. Johnson helped lead the creation and implementation of, and is the lead instructor for, the Deals@Milbank Transactional Drafting Series for junior associates at Milbank.

Recognition & Accomplishments

Ms. Johnson was named Aviation Lawyer of the Year at the 2023 Euromoney Women in Business Law Americas Awards, which honors leading women practitioners for professional accomplishments as well as advocacy and influence within each field.  

Ms. Johnson is a Senior Lecturing Fellow at the Duke University School of Law where she teaches transaction and contract drafting. She received her J.D. from Georgetown Law and an A.B. from Duke University.