Aircraft Finance

GA Telesis Continues to Lead with the Refinancing of its Five-Year $225 Million Syndicated ABL Credit Facility with Oversubscription and Tighter Pricing

November 15, 2021 – Fort Lauderdale, Florida – Leading global aviation integration company GA Telesis, LLC (or the “Company”) announced closing a new five-year, $225 million ABL credit facility led by HSBC Bank USA and Fifth Third Bank as Joint Lead Arrangers. The syndication was met with overwhelming interest and allowed the Company to improve terms while expanding its existing bank group. The facility comprises nine global, super-regional, and regional banks with HSBC Bank USA as… Read more

Aircraft Valuations: What’s the Secret Sauce? / By Marc Cho

During an interview for a summer internship before my senior year at college, an investment banker asked me to sum up investment banking in one word. As a naive and uninformed undergrad, I didn’t have a good answer so I replied, “finance.” He told me the better answer was, “value”. He said the goal of any investment banker was to determine value – of a company, an asset, a contract, and anything else that can… Read more