HI Deal of the Year Awards: New deadline May 26th, 2026

There’s now even more time to nominate your favourite rotary finance deals for our Helicopter Investor Deal of the Year Awards. The new deadline is noon on Tuesday May 26th, 2026.

We’d like your help to showcase the best in helicopter finance deals. There are eight categories – spanning Best Americas Deal to M&A Deal of the Year – to choose between. Companies can self-nominate or we’d be delighted to receive nominations from individuals on behalf of others. What’s important is the calibre of the deal and its significance for the civil helicopter industry.

Making a nomination is easy: simply pick a category or categories from the list below before emailing us the details.. The winners from each category will be considered for the big one – The Helicopter Investor Deal of the Year Award 2026.

Credit where credit is due

To help us give credit where credit is due, we have recruited a highly experienced team of industry analysts and appraisers. Scrutinising all the entries will be Sara Dhariwal, aviation analyst and lead appraiser at Cirium Ascend Consultancy, Alastair Fallon, director, senior appraiser with the consultancy F4 – Fly Fast Further First and Clark McGinn, founder of the consultancy Uplifting Advice.

Calculators in hand, they will be sifting through the financial details of all entries. When their work is done, we will be ready to celebrate all the winners at our Helicopter Investor London 2026 conference on the afternoon of Tuesday, June 16th.

Meanwhile, good luck to all the nominees. We can’t wait to read all the entries and share the winners with you.

Categories: HI Deal of the Year Awards:

Best Americas Deal

Best European Deal

Best Asian/MEA Deal

Most Innovative Deal

M&A Deal

Best Supported Financing Deal (including export credit)

Borrower treasury team of the year

Overall Deal of the Year.

Making a nomination

Please send the following transaction details and other information, either as an email or Word document, to Mike Stones:

Borrower’s name ……………..

Deal size in $ ………………….

Structure ………………………

Closing date .…………………

Helicopter types (if secured) …

Financial arrangers …………..

Lenders ……………………….

Legal advisers ………………..

Tax advisers …………………..

Appraisers …………………….

Summary of why your nomination deserves to win an award ….

The nominee’s name (This will remain confidential) ……………..

The nominee’s email and telephone number ……………………..

Good luck to all the nominees.