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Aircraft Financing provides industry participants with expert guidance on the key elements that are relevant to aircraft financing and leasing transactions.

Written and edited by internationally renowned experts, this is the leading text providing guidance on all the core topics, including sources of funding, the main issues relevant to assessing and structuring potential financing and leasing transactions, and the key legal, tax and accounting considerations that frame commercial aviation financing transactions.

Split into four parts covering Market Context, Business Model - Key Elements, Core Products and Regulatory Matters, the Sixth Edition includes new or expanded sections on:

- Credit rating agencies
- Sanctions
- Portfolio trading
- Credit supported financing
- Key engine related elements

It is an invaluable handbook for anyone working in the leasing, banking, legal, tax and accounting industries, as well as those in airlines, financial investors, rating agencies and OEMs.

This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Banking and Finance Law and Irish Banking and Finance Law online services.

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Table of Contents

Part I - Market Context
1. Aviation Finance Introduction - Robert Martin (Senior Advisor, Marsh Aviation)
2. Overview of Aircraft Financing Markets - Laurent Delvart (Crédit Agricole CIB)
3. Aircraft Capital Markets - Zarrar Sehgal (Clifford Chance)
Part II - Business Model – Key Elements
4. Aircraft as Investments - Dick Forsberg (formerly of PwC AFAS, now DFOR Insight)
5. Legal Issues in Aircraft Finance - William Glaister (General Editor) and Marisa Chan (Clifford Chance)
6. Cross-border Aircraft Leasing - Key Taxation Considerations - James Kelly (KPMG)
7. Commercial Aircraft Valuation – Randy Nightingale (Aircastle)
8. Risk in Aviation Finance - Arthur Gaskin (Aviation Consultant)
9. Credit Rating Agencies - Betsy R Snyder, CFA (Independent Senior Adviser, aviation industry)
10. Environmental Matters and the Aviation Industry - Jim Bell (Watson Farley & Williams)
11. Sanctions and Export Controls - Bijan Ganji, Nick Swinburne, Pinky Mehta and Bridget Golob (Milbank)
Part III - Core Products
12. Operating Leasing – Lessor Perspectives - Rob Murphy (General Editor)
13. Operating Leasing – Lessee Perspectives - Michelle Johnson (flydubai)
14. Portfolio Trading and the Sale/Leaseback Product - Rob Murphy (General Editor) and William Glaister (General Editor)
15. Pre-delivery Payment Financing - Bill Gibson (Vedder)
16: Credit Supported Financings - Leslie Kurshan (Marsh Speciality) and George Paterson (Norton Rose Fulbright)
17. Islamic Finance - William Coleman (Holland & Knight)
18. Key Engine Related Elements - Rick Boyes (Deucalion Aviation)
19. Japanese Operating Leasing - Paul Greenwell (Clifford Chance)
20. Insurance Considerations - Glen Brighton (Willis Trowers Watson)
21. Aircraft Repossession – Practical Considerations - Phil Seymour (IBA Group)
22. Airline Restructurings - Michelle McGreal, Gabrielle Ruiz, Harini Viswanathan, Richard Evans and Marisa Chan (Clifford Chance)
Part IV - Regulatory Matters
23. The Regulatory Framework for Airline Operations - Alan Ryan (Freshfields)
24. International Conventions Affecting Aircraft Financing - Jeffrey Wool and Karla Baston (Aviation Working Group)
25. Accounting Developments in Aircraft Finance - Terence Coveney (KPMG)

Product details

Published 10 Sep 2026
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 6th
Pages 456
ISBN 9781526535450
Imprint Bloomsbury Professional
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

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Volume Editor

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