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Asset Brok’Air is an independent Irish asset finance advisory firm providing:

Arrangement of Debt and Equity
Advisory on Transportation Finance and Leasing

We focus on the Japanese leasing market where we have secured partnerships with banks, private investors, leasing houses and lessors.

Our Team

Akio Oda

Head of Investor Relations

Jean-Gaël Duboc

Chief Commercial Officer
Equity Partner

Camille Voisin

Chief Financial Officer
Equity Partner

Christian Mc Cormick

Special Advisor

Kenji Kawahara

Managing Director, Japan

Thierry Pierson

 


Thierry Pierson



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Thierry Pierson holds a Masters in Econometrics and a Masters in Capital Markets. He began his career at Crédit Lyonnais, in securitization and later in the transportation department, first in Paris and then in Singapore. He then joined the insurance broker Marsh where he was in charge of the development of insurance products used in structured finance transactions, in credit risk securitization program and in asset risk aircraft finance transaction. Thierry headed the asset based financing departement of a French M&A firm focusing on transportation industries before founding Asset Brok'Air.

Asset Based & Corporate Finance Expertise:

Securitization (ABCP & EETC)
Export Credit / Commercial loan
Japanese Tax Lease
Residual Value Insurance & Captive
Credit & Political Insurance
Small/Mid Cap Merger & Acquisition

Jean-Gaël Duboc



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Jean-Gaël Duboc holds an Engineering degree in aeronautics (ISAE Supaero) and a Masters’ degree in corporate finance (EM Lyon business school). He began his career at CIC bank, then he became auditor at KPMG where he specialised in airlines, airports and financial compliance. Jean-Gaël joined Air France in 2006 where he was in charge of aircraft finance. After 7 years serving with the French flag carrier Jean-Gaël became aircraft leasing manager within the Air France KLM Group Fleet department.

Jean-Gaël has been an ISTAT member since 2012 and he is lecturer both at Toulouse Business School and ENAC (the French National University for Civil Aviation).

Asset Based & Corporate Finance Expertise:

JOLCO / JOL
Tax enhanced / Cross border leasing
Loan finance
Export Credit
Aircraft valuation / Technical expertise
Financial process compliance

Jean-François Lascombe



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Jean-François Lascombe holds an MBA from ESSEC (France). He began his career with Credit Agricole Indosuez (now CA-CIB), then joined INGEPAR in 2001, a boutique arranging firm of BPCE group specialised in French tax lease. Jean-François then joined Natixis, BPCE investment bank, in Paris in 2006 before heading the aircraft finance Asia Pacific team in Singapore and won 3 Airfinance Journal deal of the year (Asia and Bank Loan categories) during his tenure. Jean-François was head of Asia Pacific for the Irish arranger Stellwagen Finance before joining Asset Brok’Air in 2018.

In addition to speaking English and French, Jean-François has notions of German, Russian and Bahasa Indonesia.

Expertise:

JOLCO
French Tax Lease
Pre-delivery payment financing
Airbus, Boeing, Embraer, ATR Export Credit
Portfolio/warehouse financing
EETC
Mezzanine financing

Christian Mc Cormick



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Christian holds a Masters degree from Tufts University and an MBA from Boston College. He has over 30 years of banking, lessor and manufacturer experience in the Aviation Finance industry. He worked for Société Générale, Aerospatiale (Now Airbus) Credit Lyonnais (now CACIB), Natixis and more recently for Chinese lessor CALC. He has acquired in depth knowledge of the aviation finance industry and developped a network of banks, investors and other capital markets players with whom he maintains close contacts for the benefit of Asset Brok’Air’s clients.

Christian’s expertise include all types of financial products from straight loans, export credit, tax structures, capital market products including EETC, ABS, and sidecars.

Christian has always been recognized for his sense of innovation and perseverance and has won directly, through the institutions he has worked for, or the teams he has managed throughout his career numerous industry awards. He is also a frequent panelist at the AFJ and Airline Economics conferences around the world.

Jean Pierson


Jean Pierson holds an Engineering degree in aeronautics from Ecole Nationale Supérieure de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace and Doctor honoris causa ès sciences from Cranfield.

He has dedicated his entire professional life to aerospace industries and was the driving force for the development and production of most of European civil aircraft during the last 50 years (Concorde, ATR, Airbus family aircraft).

For 14 years, Jean was Chief Executive Officer of Airbus before retiring in 1999. He then started a consultancy service to aerospace related companies.

Akio Oda



Akio Oda graduated from Waseda University in 1972

Executive officer of one of the largest Japanese Leasing Company
         - Worked for the company more than 40 years
         - Was in charge of Aircraft and Ship Finance more than 30 years
         - Was involved with more than 200 JLL,JOL,JOLCO transactions
           including the first Japanese Leveraged Lease.

Retired in Sep 2011, established Oda Aviation Co. Ltd in Japan in 2012

Started JOL/JOLCO Advisory business with Asset Brok'Air

Kenji Kawahara




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Kenji Kawahara holds a bachelor’s degree in commerce and accounting from KEIO university. He worked with IBJ Leasing (now Mizuho Leasing) for about 30 years and JP Lease for 4 years.

Kenji has been involved in aircraft lease and finance for more than 15 years with IBJ Leasing and JP Lease. A notable expert of JOLCO structuring in Japan, Kenji joined Asset Brok’Air in June 2022.

Kenji has also a national certification of a registered management consultant with Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry in Japan.

Asset Based & Corporate Finance Expertise:

JOLCO /JOL (Japanese Tax Lease)
Aircraft finance
Aircraft operating lease
Management consultant

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