Preston G. Gaddis II (Gil) is an advisory director at the firm’s Oklahoma City office, where he joined in 1965. Preston graduated from the University of Oklahoma, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in 1960 and a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1962. He served in the Office of the Army Judge Advocate General in Washington, D.C. from 1963 to 1965. He also attended Georgetown University and received a Master of Laws degree in 1965. Preston has spoken on various topics involving aircraft financing at numerous conferences over the past 50 years. Preston is also the author of various articles that have appeared in the AirFinance Journal and is the author of the Aircraft Financing Chapter in Mathew Bender’s Commercial Finance Guide. He is principally involved in representing clients in the purchase, sale, leasing and financing of aircraft.
Preston G. Gaddis IIDirector
- Oklahoma Bar Association, Section of Corporations, Banking and Business Law, Chairman
- Federal Bar Journal, Editor
Georgetown University Law Center
Washington, D.C.
LL.M., 1965
University of Oklahoma College of Law
Norman, Oklahoma
LL.B., 1962
Honors:
Order of the Coif
Oklahoma Law Review
University of Oklahoma
Norman, Oklahoma
B.A., 1960
- Oklahoma, 1962
- Oklahoma Bar Association, Section of Corporations, Banking and Business Law, Chairman
- Named Best Lawyers Lawyer of the Year (OKC) in Equipment Finance Law (2014, 2017, 2020)
- Listed in Best Lawyers in Aviation Law, Equipment Finance Law (2007 - Present)*
*Crowe & Dunlevy has no input in the rating methodologies used by Best Lawyers publication.
- Matthew Bender Commercial Finance Guide, Aircraft Financing, Chapter 9
- Speaker, American Conference Institute's 2nd National Forum on Aircraft Finance & Leasing, Junes 24-25, 2013, New York, NY
- Speaker at conferences sponsored by Strategic Research Institute, Airfinance Journal and other aviation conference sponsors
- Member of the Board of Trustees of the Oklahoma City Museum of Art
- Member of the Board of Trustees of the Heart of Oklahoma Camp Fire Council
- Member of the Board of Directors of the Bizzell Library Society of the University of Oklahoma
- U.S. Army Judge Advocate Generals Corps (Captain, 1962 - 1965)
