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How we choose Airfinance Journal's Deals of the Year

08 March 2011

A guide to how we choose Airfinance Journal's Deals of the Year, as the 2010 winners are announced this week.

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Airfinance Journal has chosen Deals of the Year Awards for more than 15 years. The awards recognize significant and groundbreaking transactions that have tested participants and raised efficient funding for the borrower.

We recognize the contribution of all participants in the deal: borrowers, lenders, investors, legal advisers and anyone else connected with it. If we have missed your institution from any write-ups, please let us know and we will update them.

At the start of 2011 Airfinance Journal began to receive nominations from airlines, lessors, banks, law firms and other participants. To get across their message, some use emails, some talk the editorial team’s ear off on the phone, and some take it one step further by inviting us to a presentation.

Once the nominations are in, the team groups them into categories, looks for particular stars and then heads back into the market.

If bank X says a...


Latest Deals Database Updates

Atlas Air / 05-13 / Ex-Im Guaranteed Bond / 1x747 23/05/2013
Borrower Atlas Air
Amount $m143
Assets 747-8
Comair / 05-13 / PDP financing / 4x737 23/05/2013
Borrower Comair
Overall Arrangers
Assets 737-800
SA Airlink / 05-13 / Airc. Secured Loan / 5xAirc 23/05/2013
Borrower SA Airlink
Amount $m9.5
Assets ERJ 135

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