Aircraft leasing investor Amedeo Air Four Plus delists from the London Stock Exchange after £190m Qatari takeover completes

Amedeo Air Four Plus Ltd, an aircraft leasing investment vehicle listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE), has ceased trading on the exchange following the completion of a £190 million (approximately $251 million) acquisition by a subsidiary of Lesha Bank LLC (Public), a Qatari financial institution. The deal results in the full delisting of Amedeo Air Four Plus, removing it from the public markets entirely. The transaction represents a cross-border take-private — where a publicly listed company is acquired and removed from a stock exchange — in the aviation finance sector, with Qatari capital absorbing a specialist London-listed leasing vehicle. Aviation leasing funds, which pool investor capital to acquire and lease wide-body aircraft, have faced significant asset-value and income volatility since the pandemic disrupted airline traffic. A Qatari buyer acquiring a London-listed leasing vehicle at this juncture reflects the continued appetite among Gulf sovereign-linked capital pools for hard-asset aviation exposure at a point when aircraft values have broadly recovered. The delisting triggers mandatory regulatory steps under LSE rules, including the deregistration of the company's shares.