Helaba
Joerg Schirrmacher serves as Head of Transport Finance at Helaba and is responsible for the origination and structuring of all transactions within the aviation and rolling stock segment. The aviation segment is currently the largest sub-portfolio with approximately USD 3 bn, where a team of seven dedicated aircraft financing specialists is responsible for originating new business.
Prior to his current role Joerg held several positions in the Bank including an assignment to the Dublin office, where he served as Head of Credit, and the London office, where he was responsible for originating new business in the Project Finance department.
In total he has twenty-three years of Corporate Finance experience mostly in the aviation sector, where he has assumed various responsibilities from credit analysis to origination and structuring as well as restructuring non-performing loans.
Joerg earned an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University and also holds a Bachelor’s degree (Diplom-Kaufmann) in Business Administration from Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University, Frankfurt.
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Main Agenda
- How overlevered have companies’ balance sheets become as a result of multiple waves of COVID, the Ukraine crisis, increased fuel and labour costs?
- Assessing various capital solutions from recapitalising debt to loans for airlines and lessors.
- What financial solutions have been more, or less, popular with aviation investors and airlines in the wake of rising interest rates?
- What measures are airlines taking to become more efficient in an attempt to correct their balance sheets and become more attractive for investment?
- Evaluating how some airlines avoided state relief loans and for those who needed to use it, how will this impact their revenue going forward?
