AerCap’s Acquisition of GE Capital Aviation Services

Cravath represented AerCap Ireland Capital Designated Activity Company and AerCap Global Aviation Trust in connection with its $2.4 billion registered senior notes offering. AerCap Ireland Capital Designated Activity Company and AerCap Global Aviation Trust are wholly owned subsidiaries of AerCap Holdings N.V., the world’s largest independent aircraft leasing company. The transaction closed on September 10, 2024.

Cravath represented AerCap Ireland Capital Designated Activity Company and AerCap Global Aviation Trust in connection with its $750 million registered junior subordinated notes offering. AerCap Ireland Capital Designated Activity Company and AerCap Global Aviation Trust are wholly owned subsidiaries of AerCap Holdings N.V., the world's largest independent aircraft leasing company. The transaction closed on July 11, 2024.

Cravath represented AerCap Ireland Capital Designated Activity Company and AerCap Global Aviation Trust in connection with their $1.5 billion registered senior notes offering. AerCap Ireland Capital Designated Activity Company and AerCap Global Aviation Trust are wholly owned subsidiaries of AerCap Holdings N.V., the global leader in aircraft leasing. The notes were listed on the Irish Stock Exchange. The transaction closed on January 11, 2024.

AerCap Holdings N.V, the world’s largest commercial aircraft leasing company, which Cravath is representing in connection with U.S. sanctions and export controls matters, has secured over $1.2 billion in related insurance recoveries involving Russian airlines’ refusal to return over 100 aircraft leased from AerCap following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. In September 2023, in the first announced insurance settlement of its kind, Cravath represented AerCap in obtaining authorizations from the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) and the U.S. Department of Commerce’s U.S. Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) for an agreement to enable payment of approximately $645 million to AerCap to resolve claims against certain Russian insurers and airlines as to a substantial number of AerCap aircraft. Cravath also represented AerCap before BIS and OFAC in connection with AerCap’s subsequent, $572 million insurance settlements with Russian insurers and airlines announced in December 2023.