About event
Taking place on January 19th 2021, The Dublin Dialogues is a must-attend virtual gathering for all those committed to the aviation industry’s recovery in the coming years. Featuring the very most senior figures in aviation finance, hear thought-leaders from the airline, leasing and financing sectors give their view on how aviation can move forward and their strategies to facilitate this. Whether you’re an airline finance, fleet or treasury professional wanting to understand bank’s lending strategy or a lessor concerned with the health of the aircraft secondary market, The Dublin Dialogues answers the questions that will help you do your job more efficiently and effectively.
Agenda
Time Zone – GMT
10:00 Airfinance Journal welcoming remarks
Laura Mueller, Managing Director, Airfinance Journal
10:05 What is the lending strategy for aviation banks?
- How has the banking sector’s view of airline and the broader aviation industry’s credit-worthiness changed since the pandemic?
- What criteria are aviation financiers looking at when deciding whether or not to deploy capital in the sector?
- What can airline and lessor management teams be doing to to strengthen their case for bank finance in the next 6-12 months?
Vinodh Srinivasan, Managing Director & Co-Head of the Structured Credit Group, Mizuho Securities
Moderated by: Michael Duff, Managing Director, The Airline Analyst
10:55 What have the most successful cash-burn and liquidity management strategies from airlines looked like?
- A look at the unsecured debt market and the importance of unencumbered assets
- Which funding avenues have remained open to airlines further down the credit scale?
- How to best extract yield from your fleet?
Christine Rovelli, Senior Vice President, Finance & Fleet Management, Finnair
Moderated by: Andy Mansell, Partner, Split Rock Aviation
11:45 Short break
12:00 Capitalising on M&A & finance opportunities in the aviation market?
- In what circumstances does it make sense for financiers to deploy capital in aviation now or in the future?
- What can prospective financiers or investors do to maximise the value of their capital deployments?
- In what form can we expect these deployments to be made?
- Geographical breakdown of opportunities in aircraft finance & M&A
- What level of M&A activity should we be expecting, which players are best positioned to engage and where are the most promising opportunities to do so?
- Opportunities in alternative asset classes including mid-life aircraft?
Ted O’Byrne, Managing Director, Co-Head of Aviation, Carlyle Aviation Partners
Michel Angelo Raimondi, Executive Director, Global Capital Markets, Morgan Stanley
Armin Rothauser, Partner, Castlelake
Ray Sisson, Director, Credit Suisse
Radha Tilton, Managing Director, Goldman Sachs
13:10 What steps can ABS issuers take to maintain cash strapped vehicles?
- A number of ratings agencies have already raised alarm about the vulnerability many ABS vehicles find themselves in, what can be done to protect issuers and investors from a collapse?
- What is the plan to work with operators to get parked assets generating revenue again?
- Many claimed that ABS issuers had learnt the lessons which succeeded the financial crash of 08, how is this downturn different and what can issuers do to produce the most favourable outcomes?
Damon J. D’Agostino, President & Chief Executive Officer, Zephyrus Aviation Capital
Radha Tilton, Managing Director, Goldman Sachs
Moderated by: Drew Fine, Partner, Milbank LLP
14:00 Where is the value in an airline in 2020?
Previously airlines could have pointed to any number of factors to communicate their value to potential financiers or investors, whether it be their fleets or the product itself or ancillary options such as a loyalty scheme. Now however that question is more difficult to answer; hear some of the industry’s most prominent experts give their view.
Mike Powell, Executive Chairman, Flybondi
Neil Sorahan, Chief Financial Officer, Ryanair
Moderated by: Kieran O’Brien, Partner, Aviation Advisory, KPMG
14:50 In conversation with the Taoiseach
Ireland has long been the home of the global aviation finance industry since the days of Guiness Peat Aviation, hear Domhnal Slattery, the
CEO of Avolon and the Taoiseach, Micheál Martin discuss the future of aviation finance in Ireland.
Micheál Martin, Taoiseach, Republic of Ireland
SPEAKERS
Michael Martin
Republic of Ireland
Radha Tilton
Goldman Sachs
Domhnal Slattery
Avolon
Keith Allman
MUFG
Damon J. D'Agostino
Zephyrus Aviation Capital
Séamus Ó Cróinín
A&L Goodbody
Catharine Ennis
SMBC Aviation Capital
Drew Fine
Milbank LLP
Dan Hartnett
Arnold & Porter
Meghan Montana
American Airlines
Henry Morriello
Arnold & Porter
Richard Moody
Deutsche Bank
Ted O'Byrne
Carlyle Aviation Partners
Michael Duff
The Airline Analyst
Mike Powell
Flybondi
Michelangelo Raimondi
Morgan Stanley
Armin Rothauser
Castlelake
Christine Rovelli
Finnair
Joseph Shanahan
Citi
Ray Sisson
Credit Suisse
Kieran O'Brien
KPMG
Vinodh Srinivasan
Mizuho Securities
Neil Sorahan
Ryanair
Andy Mansell
Split Rock Aviation
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