Jaffa & Co, the UK aviation and superyacht legal firm, has promoted Katie Bancroft to senior associate.

Jonathan Russell, a partner and the firm's head of aviation, says: “This promotion builds on a fantastic year for Katie. We are very proud of her work. She has successfully completed many excellent transactions this year, as well as sharing her exceptional knowledge by presenting at numerous conferences, including Corporate Jet Investor London and the Isle of Man Aviation Conference. She is deservedly making a name for herself in the circles that matter, and we are proud to have her in the Jaffa & Co team. We wholeheartedly agree with one industry journalist, who recently noted she, 'stood out as a role model for the next generation of aviation professionals’.”

James Jaffa, the firm's founder, adds: “Katie has won the loyalty of a number of clients by smoothly getting deals done and being a safe, reliable pair of hands. She started at Jaffa as our first employee, and she is now a key part of the business aviation team and our wider business”.

Bancroft comments: “Receiving recognition for doing a job I enjoy so much is wonderful. It has been so rewarding to see the firm's business aviation department going from strength to strength over the years. Jonathan, joining the team in May of last year, really turbo-charged our offering. I am looking forward to seeing how much we all achieve in the coming years.”

Jaffa & Co are an UK law firm with offices in London's Mayfair and at Farnborough Airport. Its expert team of lawyers are acknowledged as industry leaders in their chosen fields. The firm has advised on transactions with an aggregate value of several billion euros.

The firm's core business is focused on business aviation and superyachts. Its business aviation team includes head of D

department, Jonathan Russell; legal director Hannah Moran-Ellis (who joined the firm after acting as General Counsel for various airlines in the Middle East) along with senior associate Katie Bancroft.

Jaffa also offers escrow services for business aviation and superyacht assets, which can make an attractive alternative to Oklahoma City escrow agents for transactions with a European or East-Asian element.