Insiders Guide to Snaring the Best Lease Deal

Every year, thousands of business owners and financial managers are faced with the task of obtaining attractive financing for equipment their firms want to acquire. Snaring the best leasing arrangement requires only a bit of planning and a smidgeon of finesse. You can save time, land a better lease deal... Read More

Ten Equipment Leasing Tips - Save a Bundle on Your Next Lease

According to the Equipment Leasing Association ("ELA"), U.S. businesses lease every thing from laptop computers to commercial airplanes, racking up more than $ 200 billion in equipment leased each year. Although four out of five U.S. companies use leasing to acquire equipment, many don't know the ins and outs of... Read More

Venture Leasing - A Smarter Way To Build Enterprise Value

In 2003, venture capitalists and investors dispensed over $18 billion to promising young U.S. companies, according to VentureOne and Ernst & Young Quarterly Venture Capital Report. Less documented and reported is venture leasing's activity and volume. This form of equipment financing contributes greatly to the growth of U.S. start-ups. Yearly,... Read More

Warning - This Lease Might Explode Any Minute

Mike Caringi, owner of a small New Jersey business that sells pumps, found himself facing a gut-wrenching dilemma last summer. Should he continue paying $ 1,500 each month for essential telecommunications services he no longer receives and for leased equipment he claims was never installed? Or, should he stop making... Read More

Dodging Leasings Grim Reaper: Navigating a Payment Default

In her third Harry Potter novel, ?The Prisoner of Azkaban?, J.K. Rowling introduces a silent mysterious clan of spiny, cloaked creatures capable of siphoning off happiness and all good thoughts from anyone in their presence. Extended exposure to these scabby grim reapers, called Dementors, resulted in madness or death for... Read More

Venture Leasing: Startup Financing On the Rise

According to Pricewaterhouse Coopers, investment by institutional venture capitalists in startups grew from less than $3.0 billion at the beginning of the 1990's to over $106 billion in 2000. Although venture capital volume has retreated significantly since the economic "bubble" years of the late 1990's, the present volume of around... Read More

How Venture Leasing Added Millions To A Startups Equity Value

Craig Berman beamed noticeably after completing his board presentation. Berman, CEO of a startup that develops nanotechnology applications for the defense industry, had just closed a $ 20 million equity round. Berman finalized the round at an equity valuation that made the whole board blush. Only six months earlier, Berman's... Read More

Equipment Leasing Blunders That Can Cost Your Firm a Mint

Rod McHenry, the financial vice president of a document imaging company, thought he had great cause for celebrating. He had signed an unbelievable $370,000 lease proposal covering computer servers, workstations, software and other networking equipment. McHenry believed he had snared an incredible lease rate, capping off weeks of negotiating an... Read More

How To Choose An Equipment Leasing Company

Leasing has become a preferred form of equipment financing, accounting for more than 30% of business equipment acquisitions. Each year, thousands of U.S. companies face the challenge of finding attractive financing to acquire business equipment. Many of these companies approach the lease sourcing process seeking the lowest lease rate. While... Read More

Ten Ways Start-ups Use Venture Leases And Loans To Generate Millions

The rise of venture leasing and lending has created an opportunity for sophisticated entrepreneurs to gain a competitive advantage. Savvy entrepreneurs are using venture leases and loans to generate millions of dollars for shareholders by leveraging existing venture capital. They have discovered ways to use this flexible financing as a... Read More

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ProLogis Announces Leases in Three Newly Developed U.S. Facilities
MarketWatch (press release)
... a leading global provider of distribution facilities, announced today it has signed lease agreements totaling approximately 174000 square feet to three ...
ProLogis Announces Leases in Three Newly Developed U.S. FacilitiesPR Newswire (press release)

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BA, American, Iberia Offer To Lease 4 Takeoff, Landing Slots
Wall Street Journal
MC) have offered to lease four pairs of daily takeoff and landing slots to competitors on specific transatlantic routes in a bid to push through their bid ...
British Airways, American and friends offer EU to lease Heathrow slotsCentre for Asia Pacific Aviation (subscription)
Slots offered in return for BA-AA-Iberia approvalTravelMole
Oneworld Alliance Partners Offer Slots for Antitrust ImmunityFly | Global Music Culture (blog)
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First Niagara keeps growing
Buffalo News
The Buffalo-based banking company, which has been on a gobbling binge in Pennsylvania, signed a two-year lease for 4224 Ridge Lea, Suite 100, to accommodate ...

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Nicolas Cage Sued Over Defaulting On Rolls Royce Lease Payments
The Business Insider
The monthly lease payment -- a cool $7663.02. The ride was valued at $550000. But one Rolls is not how Nic rolled. Four months after leasing the '64, ...
Nicolas sued for breaking Rolls Royce classics leaseOneindia
Cage caught up in car warHollywood.com

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Kansas City Area Development Council will negotiate for a Union Station lease
Bizjournals.com
Both organizations currently are at Commerce Tower, but their leases are up at the end of the year. While no deal to relocate to Union Station is signed and ...

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Willis Lease Finance Reports 2009 Net Income of $22.4 Million
MarketWatch (press release)
Partly due to the inclusion of tax adjustments of $2.3 million, Willis Lease earned $0.2 million, or $0.03 per diluted common share, on revenues of $38.8 ...
Novato-based Willis Lease bucks turbulence in aviation industryContra Costa Times

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ILFC Debt Offering Draws Strong Demand
Wall Street Journal
A $1.3 billion loan offering from International Lease Finance Corp. has met with strong investor demand, ...
AIG's ILFC unit selling new term loansMarketWatch
ILFC debt sale gets strong demand, WSJ reportsMarketWatch

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Court denies Capital One's claim, sides with Alexandria on bankrupt hotel
Alexandria Town Talk
Hunter highlighted each of the Alexander Fulton's leases, beginning with the original one in 1983 that set up a lease-purchase option for the lender. ...

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Finning Announces Lease Agreement Extension With Teck
MarketWatch (press release)
Under the current lease agreement with Finning, Teck operates approximately 50 large dozers which are employed at six mines in BC and Alberta. ...

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Students living off campus must do homework
Chicago Sun-Times
Leases: Offer a longer lease term in exchange for lowered rent. If you plan to spend the next two to four school semesters in the same building, ...

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