HONG KONG -- Under the wing of China's acquisitive HNA Group, Avolon Holdings rose in little over a year from being the world's 11th largest jet leasing company to the third-biggest.
Chief Executive Domhnal Slattery, who founded the company in Ireland in 2010, told the Nikkei Asian Review that a deal reached this week for Japanese financial services company Orix, which has its own jet leasing business, to take a 30% stake in Avolon will help it climb higher.
