“The practice is still very global and undoubtedly remains the pre-eminent global aviation finance practice. He says it reflects the significance of the US market for the practice. Glaister agrees the move to appoint a new global head in North America represents a “shift” for Clifford Chance. Zarrar Sehgal succeeded William Glaister as Clifford Chance's head of the global asset finance group earlier this month. Glaister headed a team of 16 partners across the world with offices in New York, Hong Kong SAR, Singapore and Dubai, and passed the baton to Zarrar Sehgal, from the New York office, at the end of April. He was admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales in 1993. Glaister was seconded to the firm’s Singapore office in 1996-97 and the Hong Kong SAR office btween 19. He graduated from University College London in 1989 with a BA reading history. He is a one-career person having joined Clifford Chance in 1991. For this latest visit, the first in six years, I once again joined the RAP group, but before joining this group I also spent two productive days by myself in Havana, visiting, among others, two long-time friends and academic scholars, Alicia Acosta and Miguel Hernandez (both pseudonyms).William Glaister was until the end of April 2023 head of Clifford Chance’s global asset finance group specialising in advising financiers, lessors and operators on all aspects of big-ticket asset finance transactions. For my take on Cuban socialism, see Tharamangalam 2019). About five visits were organised by myself and my research team as part of a research project comparing the human development experience of Cuba and Kerala in India, two regions known for their high human development achievements despite low gross domestic product (GDP) growth and income (see Tharamangalam 2010 for a summary of this comparison. Since 2005, I have visited Cuba several times, some of these visits have been with a group (mostly young Americans) of Cuba visitors under the leadership of Cliff Durand of the Radical Philosophy Association (RAP) based in Mexico. Regrettably it has taken me this long to write these reflections due to other pressing preoccupations. These observations are based on my most recent visit to Cuba (12 to 28 June 2022). My aim in this article is to offer a few personal observations and reflections on the multidimensional crisis Cuba is facing in the aftermath of COVID-19.
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