Lucite financial tombstone commemorating notes issued by GLS Auto Receivables Issuer Trust 2024. GLS (Global Lending Services) is based in Greenville, South Carolina. (24AKL118)
The transportation-themed deal toys shown here take inspiration from planes, freighters, boats, buses, drones, and more. The industry also utilizes commemoratives for service awards and operator certifications.
Lucite financial tombstone commemorating notes issued by GLS Auto Receivables Issuer Trust 2024. GLS (Global Lending Services) is based in Greenville, South Carolina. (24AKL118)
Custom crystal tombstone commemorating senior secured financing provided for Global Ship Lease. Global Ship Lease is a containership charter owner.
(9LSS115)Custom deal toy recognizing the sale by Spain’s Iberdrola of its portfolio of liquefied natural gas (LNG) assets.
(20LSS061)Vessel-themed crystal deal toy commemorating two bond issues by Siccar Point Energy. Aberdeen-based Siccar is a oil and gas exploration and production firm.
(9LJW056)Crystal deal toy, featuring 3D laser etching of car seats, commemorating the acquisition of Greenville, South Carolina-based Sage Automotive Interiors. The company produces cloth and fabrics for use in seating, door panels, and headliners used by the automobile industry.
(8ALJ594)Custom deal toy, incorporating a Lucite trench box and a flatbed truck, recognizing the acquisition of American Shoring by Herc Rentals. American Shoring manufactures, sells, and rents trench shoring equipment. (24AKL207)
Ship’s propeller-themed deal toy marking multiple transactions involving Norwegian marine technology company Kongsberg.
(9LJW054)Custom deal toy commemorating the acquisition of Miamisburg, Ohio-based Renegade Materials. Renegade produces prepreg (high-performance adhesives and fabrics) for the military and commercial aerospace industries.
(9ALJ367)Lucite deal toy, with miniature toy cars, marking the acquisition of A2B, an Australian taxi network, and also a provider of technology for the personal transport industry. The Australian Securities Exchange-listed company includes the taxi service brand 13cabs, and also the Cabcharge digital payment service. (24ALJ159)
You’ll find beginning with the galleries on this page images of over 200 financial tombstones from the transportation sector. The deals commemorated here represent a full range of transportation modes and services. You’ll see deal toys featuring cars, airplanes, buses, railroads, trucks, motorcycles, subway systems, helicopters, light and passenger rail, passenger ships—to name just a few.
You’ll also find a number of deal toys with designs that play off many of the trappings commonly associated with the transportation industry. These include, for example, tombstone designs featuring highway signs, steering wheels, propellors, compasses, airline tickets, shipping containers, tunnels, traffic lights, tollbooths, port facilities, and parking lots.
You’ll recognize among these deal tombstones many of the sector’s highest-profile companies and players. These include international brands such as J.B. Hunt, Daimler, Airbus, Boeing, CMA CGM, Lyft, Kerry Logistics, HMM, Danaos, Expedia, Hyundai, United, Maersk, General Motors, Air Canada, and United.
But the deal toy galleries here also highlight a number of less prominent players and deals from the transportation space. Those include the acquisition of a firm specializing in airline shopping data; Series B financing for a SaaS provider for connected cars; the acquisition of an Austrian manufacturer of headlight systems; the initial public offering for an Australian luxury car dealer; and the acquisition of a Texas-based company specializing in automatic tire inflation systems for trailers.
The galleries also feature designs that recognize deals outside the transportation sector, ones that nevertheless have relevant themes. These deal tombstones include, for instance, a bicycle-themed design celebrating the sale of a group of Dutch hotels; one with a tram theme marking several transactions in the Swiss telecom sector; and a Roman galley-inspired piece commemorating a landmark media transaction.
Finally, there are pieces included here that are unrelated to any financial transaction. These commemorate achievements in the sector. They include the surpassing of a user milestone for a public transportation app, and of a growth milestone for a corporate intermodal fleet.
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