Headquartered in the International Financial Services Centre in Dublin and with locations in Amsterdam, Beijing, Hong Kong, New York, Seattle, Miami, Shanghai, Singapore, Tokyo and Toulouse, the company employs over 300 people.

SMBC Aviation Capital maintains a young fleet with an average weighted age of 5.4 years.

[4] By 2005, the company had taken delivery of its 200th aircraft and opened locations in Toulouse and Seattle, with expansion into South East Asia in 2007.

In 2012, the company was acquired by the Japanese consortium for $7.3 billion, which was the largest ever global sale of an aircraft leasing business.

[7] He is a former employee of Guinness Peat Aviation (GPA), where he specialised in aircraft cross-border tax leasing and securitisations.