ABL Aviation shortlisted for Aviation Leasing Achievement Award at Aviation Industry Awards 2025

ABL Aviation was named a finalist for the Aviation Leasing Achievement Award at the Aviation Industry Awards 2025, shortlisted last year for a body of work that reflected both the commercial breadth and the financial sophistication that the category was designed to recognise, with each transaction demonstrating a different dimension of the firm's capability across placement, structuring, and ESG-aligned finance.

The eight aircraft placements with Emirates, Air France, and Pegasus gave the judging panel a clear picture of ABL Aviation's ability to execute lease transactions across a range of carriers and market contexts, drawing on a globally integrated team to manage the complexity and cross-border coordination that deals of this nature demand. The €170 million sustainability financing for Swissport added a further dimension to the submission, positioning ABL Aviation as an active participant in the growing market for ESG-linked aviation finance rather than a peripheral observer of it.

What distinguished ABL Aviation's entry was the range of competencies it evidenced within a single awards cycle. Innovative lease structures, cross-border execution capability, and a commitment to sustainability financing combined to present a firm whose achievements over the preceding 12 months reflected strategic intent as much as transactional volume.

The Aviation Leasing Achievement Award assessed entries on the significance of the leasing deal or achievement, the innovation embedded in the sale strategy and deal structuring, the quality of financing operations, and the overall execution across acquisition, negotiation, and technical services. ABL Aviation's shortlisting reflected the panel's view that its 2025 record represented a compelling and well-evidenced case for recognition as a leader in independent aviation leasing from an Irish base.

As the Aviation Industry Awards 2026 cycle draws closer, the question facing Ireland's aviation leasing community is who will carry the standard of deal-making excellence and ESG leadership that ABL Aviation brought to the 2025 shortlist.

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