Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is advising Tokyo Century Corporation, a financial services company, in the approximately $1.95 billion sale of a 50% indirect stake in Aviation Capital Group, an aircraft leasing company, to ITOCHU Corporation. For more information, see the press release.

The Debevoise team is led by M&A partners Ezra Borut and Benjamin Collins-Wood and includes counsel Naomi Aoyama and associates Hadel Alfagir and Lily Zweig, finance partner Brian Liu and counsel Dmitry Karamyslov, executive compensation & benefits partner Wendy Widman and associate Samuel Siegel, tax partner Rafael Kariyev, counsel Ben Lee Friedman and associate Sabrina Hsieh, IP and technology transactions partner Henry Lebowitz and associates Natalie Mauch, antitrust partners Tim Cornell, Anne-Mette Heemsoth, Tim McIver and Rebekah Scherr, associates Sabine Violetta Kobienia and Lillian Lara and corporate staff attorney Kayleigh Anderson and national security partner Rick Sofield and associate Jordan Corrente Beck.