With over 25 years experience in the financing, leasing and selling of commercial aircraft portfolios, Jaime Infante currently is Principal at AvCap Partners LLC, an advisory and investment firm he co-founded in 1997 that specializes in the acquisitions, lease, sale, financing and management of commercial aircraft.
He is currently working on several projects as consultant to Lazard Freres & Co. including the strategic disposition of an aircraft portfolio valued in excess of $1 billion. In addition he is arranging the sale of six aircraft leased to US and Canadian airlines for several clients in the US and the UK.
He recently worked with Montrose & Co on aircraft acquisitions and dispositions. Montrose is an equipment lease company with approximately $6 billion in assets under management owned by the Bank of America. At Montrose, he arranged the purchase of four Iberia A320 aircraft for a US lessor, the sale of ex-Swissair A319 for a German bank, one 737-700 and two 737-800 leased to Continental Airlines, and two MD-88s leased to Delta. He provided financial advisory services to a bondholder group for a portfolio of 60 commercial aircraft.
At AvCap, he sold a fleet of commercial aircraft owned by the PSG Group with a market value of $100 million. He also acted as co-manager in the sale of a portfolio of commercial aircraft leases and loans owned by American Express Bank Ltd. with a market value in excess of $300 million. These aircraft consisted of narrowbody and widebody aircraft sold to institutions in the United States, Europe and Japan.
Other accomplishments include the purchase, conversion and lease of three freighter aircraft to Emery Worldwide and the sale of laircraft and Secured Notes owned by the Kanematsu Group totally $150 million. He was adviser to funds purchasing Enhanced Equipment Trust Certificates and secured airline debt and to a U.S. leasing company on the acquisition of four aircraft leased to Continental Airlines.
Mr. Infante acted as consultant to Lazard Freres & Co. in the valuation of the FINOVA transportation portfolio during its bankruptcy. He also acted as consultant to Radian Asset Assurance Inc. on the valuation of a fleet of commercial aircraft.
Prior to AvCap, Mr. Infante was Senior Director of the Aircraft Leasing Group of American Express Bank Ltd. and was with American Express from 1980 until 1996. At American Express, Mr. Infante was responsible for originating and structuring aircraft lease and finance transactions. He closed transactions for new and used aircraft in excess of several hundred million dollars in Asia, South American and the Middle East. His team financed, acquired and leased a portfolio of 100 commercial aircraft to 30 airlines worldwide.
Mr. Infante has substantial experience in cross border leasing structures, debt and equity placement and aircraft acquisitions and dispositions.
He received his MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and is based in New York.
Based in New York, Mr. Rentschler is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and the University of Chicago (MBA). In 1979, he joined American Express Bank Ltd. where he was Executive Director and Group Head of the Aircraft Leasing Group until 1996.
At American Express, Mr. Rentschler was responsible for its international aircraft finance and leasing business. The Business grew to 12 professionals actively managing over 100 aircraft valued at over $US 1 billion leased and/or financed for approximately 25 airlines and operating lessors worldwide. In this capacity, he acquires substantial expertise in aircraft acquisition, the sale of aircraft on operating lease, lease negotiation and structuring, and debt and equity placement.
Prior to joining American Express, he served as Treasurer and later, after starting and managing a joint venture leasing company in Japan, as Vice-President-International of Greyhound Leasing.