Aerospace & Defence Finance
Aerospace & Defence Finance provides financing solutions and advisory services to a full range of businesses across the aerospace, defence, and homeland security industries. Our core clients are middle market manufacturers, distributors and service providers in the Aerospace and Defence landscape, as well as private equity sponsors or families who own companies in the sector.
Who We Are
We are a group of professionals who leverage the global expertise of CIT Aerospace and its $8 billion fleet of more than 300 commercial and business aircraft and a wealth of relationships in the sector. We have the knowledge and support base to better understand your business, access risks and deliver innovative and agile solutions.
What We Do
Our London-based Aerospace & Defence Finance team has specific competencies in the following sectors:
- Aircraft interiors
- Aerospace distribution
- Airframe manufacturers
- Aircraft parts and sub-systems manufacturers
- Airlines
- Maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO)
- Military (air, ground, sea, C4ISR)
Working closely with the European Leveraged Finance team, we provide the following products and services:
- Senior Debt - Asset Backed & Cash Flow
- Revolver (including aircraft parts inventory financing solutions)
- Term
- Second-lien debt
- Leasing
- Single investor
- Leveraged
- Synthetic
- Mezzanine Finance/Subordinated debt
- Equity
- Preferred
- Convertible preferred
- Warrants
- Advisory and Syndication Services
- Capital markets services
- Sell-side and buy-side M&A advisory
- Management buyouts
- Going private transactions