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Paul Sheridan

Paul Sheridan

CEO of Aergo Capital, the Dublin-headquartered global aircraft lessor, with 25+ years in aviation finance across leasing, banking and advisory.

Sep 16, 2026

3:00
My question to you is what about your experience, especially with COVID, and the recovery has confirmed or changed your view on the leasing business because that's where we are right now and that's where you are.
3:11
Yeah, I think COVID told us almost everything that we currently know about how the leasing business works because it was such a severe shock to the system.
3:21
It's easy to look at some of these things in hindsight and see them as inevitable, but when we put ourselves back in March, April, May 2020, nothing seemed inevitable then, and we really didn't know what was going to happen.
3:32
And so I think it affirms the importance of the right assets in the right place, the movability of those assets.
3:41
We possess aircraft and transitioned aircraft through lockdowns, extremely difficult times, but if you have the right assets, then things do move.
3:51
I think coming out of it, it's probably reaffirmed that I've always had a strong belief that the airline credit is really important at understanding what your airline credit is, what your maintenance exposures are within that.
4:01
And that, I think, you know, the treatment was probably a bit longer pre-COVID.
5:11
But then there's also jurisdictional risk.

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