Alexandra Johnson

Primary Focus & Experience

Ms. Johnson’s experience includes a wide variety of structured finance transactions, international transactions and corporate transactions, including ABS and portfolio securitizations across multiple asset classes, corporate platform formations with dynamic capital structures, CLOs (including nontraditional CLOs), acquisition financing, mergers and acquisitions, secured lending and restructuring. She focuses on transportation and equipment assets, esoteric assets, digital infrastructure and space assets in the capital markets, the bank markets and the alternative lending markets. Ms. Johnson regularly represents underwriters, lenders (including alternative lenders), debt and equity investors, sponsors, issuers, borrowers, lessors and credit insurers. Ms. Johnson has worked on some of the most complex and innovative transactions, 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 recognized as a leading lawyer nationwide for Transportation: Aviation: Finance in Chambers USA rankings guide and she is recognized as a Next Generation Partner for Aviation and Air Travel: Finance by Legal 500 USA. Ms. Johnson is also featured as a Highly Regarded lawyer for aviation in IFLR1000's 2024 rankings.

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.