SMBC Aviation Capital receives the Aviation 100 Fund of the Year (New) award for GAEL

GAEL represents one of SMBC Aviation Capital’s most innovative trading transactions to date. It was fully-subscribed after a very short marketing period demonstrating the appetite for the aircraft identified and for investment into the aircraft leasing space from institutional investors in Japan. The fund is now also fully deployed following completion of the eight aircraft transaction.

Brian McArdle, Senior Director, Aircraft Trading commented: “We are delighted to accept this award from Airline Economics following the successful launch of our inaugural aviation fund, GAEL. This recognises the hard work and innovation by our team, our shareholder SMBC who we partnered with on the equity raising in Japan and all of our other partners who were part of this success. Aircraft leasing continues to be an attractive asset class for the Japanese institutional investor market and we expect this to continue as more opportunities and products come on stream in the market.”