NEW YORK & LONDON December 19, 2012 – Seabury Capital, a leading global investment bank, advisory and investment management firm, acted as sole financial adviser to UK-based A J Walter Aviation (AJW), a global leader in aircraft spare parts supply and repair, in securing a $125 million senior secured credit facility.  Seabury Capital led the development of a multi-year financial plan and other marketing materials in support of a broad capital raise campaign.

A consortium led by CIT Group Inc. (NYSE: CIT) financed the credit facility, with proceeds being used to fund spare parts acquisitions needed to support the rapid expansion of AJW’s operations and customer base.

Additional terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

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Seabury Capital

Seabury is a global advisory and investment banking firm with over 250 professionals based in 14 countries on five continents, including six offices in the United States, providing clients a comprehensive approach to driving business solutions, no matter how complex or challenging the issues. Seabury provides investment banking and merchant banking, management consulting, enterprise MIS software solutions, structured investment products, FX trading software, trade finance solutions, and human capital advisory services to clients in the following industries: aerospace, automotive, aviation, cargo/logistics, explosives/mining, financial services, gaming, hospitality, infrastructure, insurance, manufacturing, maritime/offshore oil & gas exploration, metals processing, mining, private equity, debt and hedge funds, real estate and travel.

Seabury professionals are a unique combination of top-tier bankers, consultants, software solutions experts, and former industry executives that provide in-depth advisory services to effectuate enterprise-wide change. Since 1995 Seabury’s professionals have advised on over 900 client engagements globally including assignments involving negotiating new or existing aircraft orders totalling over $250 billion (list prices) and structuring over $80 billion of equity and debt capital transactions. Additionally Seabury served as investment banker and restructuring advisor for 10 of the 15 largest airline turnarounds, including restructuring over $100 billion of debt and lease transactions.

Seabury has increasingly broadened its global businesses to include structured finance products, enterprise software, and trade finance services. Seabury is a global leader in providing software tools and data products covering aviation, aerospace, cargo/global trade, FX trading and human capital. Seabury has developed world-class, enterprise-wide MIS systems that can extract information, manage contracts, and evaluate data across an array of IT systems delivering real-time analysis and executable information. In 2013 Seabury acquired FXone Ltd., a leading provider of new software tools and enterprise software for market makers, brokers and traders for FX trading based in San Francisco which has been renamed Seabury Financial Solutions LLC, and 1 East West Limited, a provider of innovative supply chain finance solutions, based in Hong Kong, which has been renamed Seabury Trade Finance Exchange Ltd.

About A J Walter Aviation

A J Walter Aviation is a world leading specialist in the supply, repair and loan of commercial aircraft spare parts, including services in aircraft engines, aircraft inventory management; power-by-the-hour and pooling support; consignment stock; global 24/7 AOG; component maintenance and overhaul; consumable supplies; logistics and freight management. AJW offices are based in Singapore, Dubai, London, Montreal and Miami with further inventory hubs across Europe and North America. AJW is celebrating its 80th year of aviation support leadership in 2012.www.ajw-aviation.com