Etihad Airways rasies $500 million

Etihad Airways, its airport services business and five of its equity partners – Etihad Airways, Etihad Airport Services, airberlin, Air Serbia, Air Seychelles, Alitalia and Jet Airways – have raised $500 million on the international markets. The funds have been raised through a special purpose vehicle, EA Partners IBV.  Goldman Sachs International, ADS Securities and Anoa Capital are acting as joint lead book-running managers for the offering. Etihad and its partners held a series of roadshow meetings in Abu Dhabi, Dubai and London, to set out their shared vision and strategies of the airlines to financial institutions, which focused on