Signature Aviation Now Less than New Ownership

Without the need of any fanfare, the $4.7 billion sale of Signature Aviation to a consortium of personal fairness companies was done very last week. The groups—Blackstone, Global Infrastructure Associates, and Cascade Investments—combined to set up a jointly-owned company and issued the effective bid, which was accredited by Signature Aviation’s shareholders in late March. The acquire was officially sanctioned by a British isles court docket on Might 27.

“Effective June 1, Blackstone, World Infrastructure Associates, and Cascade assumed possession of Signature Aviation, which is now a privately held company no for a longer time publicly traded on the London Inventory Trade,” Signature claimed in a assertion launched to AIN. “All 3 organizations have unmatched expertise productively investing across the aviation, transportation, infrastructure, and hospitality sectors. They are deeply fully commited to accelerating the progress of the Signature Aviation company though building a beneficial influence on our crew, our customers, the setting, and the communities we provide.”

In January, International Infrastructure Partners issued an supply of $4.6 billion to invest in Signature, which operates the world’s greatest FBO community with more than 200 locations globally. That prompted responses from Cascade, which handles the bulk of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates’s individual fortune and owned a virtually 20 % stake in Signature, as properly as from non-public fairness group Blackstone Infrastructure Advisors and Blackstone Core Fairness Administration Associates, which had beforehand issued its possess $4 billion offer, to combine forces to buy Signature.