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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 19, 2010

Registration No. 333-          

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549



Form F-4
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933



AerCap Holdings N.V.
(Exact name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

The Netherlands
(Jurisdiction of
Incorporation or Organization)
  7359
(Primary Standard Industrial
Classification Code Number)
  98-0514694
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification Number)

AerCap
AerCap House
Stationsplein 965
1117 CE Schiphol Airport Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Attention: Chief Legal Officer
+31 20 655 96 71
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of Registrant's principal executive offices)



CT Corporation System, 111 Eighth Avenue, 13th Floor, New York, NY 10011, (212) 894-8641
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)



Copies to:

Robert S. Reder, Esq.
Drew S. Fine, Esq.
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP
1 Chase Manhattan Plaza
New York, NY 10005
(212) 530-5000
  Raymond O. Gietz, Esq.
Boris Dolgonos, Esq.
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
767 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10153
(212) 310-8000

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public:
As soon as practicable after this Registration Statement becomes effective.

          If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. ý 333-162365

          If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(d) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. o

          This registration statement shall become effective upon filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission in accordance with Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act.



CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

               
 
Title of Each Class of Securities
to be Registered

  Amount to be
Registered(1)

  Proposed Maximum
Offering Price
Per Share

  Proposed Maximum
Offering
price(2)

  Amount of
Registration Fee

 

Ordinary Shares, par value €0.01 per share

  2,892   N/A   $31,840.92   $2.27

 

(1)
Represents, together with the 34,346,596 shares previously registered under the F-4 filed on October 6, 2009 (Registration No. 333-162365), the maximum number of AerCap Holdings N.V. ("AerCap") ordinary shares to be issued to shareholders of Genesis Lease Limited ("Genesis") in connection with a business combination between the two companies, assuming that no Genesis shareholder seeks appraisal of its shares under Bermuda law in connection with such transaction. To the extent that any AerCap ordinary shares are not issued to Genesis shareholders that seek appraisal of their shares, such AerCap ordinary shares will be issued to persons who may be deemed to be underwriters pursuant to Rule 154(c) of the Securities Act and are being registered hereunder to cover resales from time to time after issuance to such persons, subject to the maximum number of shares that such persons have agreed to acquire pursuant to arrangements between AerCap and such persons as more fully described in our currently effective registration statement.

(2)
Pursuant to Rule 457(c) and Rule 457(f) of the Securities Act, and solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee, the proposed maximum offering price of $31,840.92 is equal to the product of (a) a market value of $11.01 per share of the American Depositary Shares of Genesis ("Genesis ADSs"), corresponding to the average of the high and low prices for the Genesis ADSs on the New York Stock Exchange on March 18, 2010, and (b) 2,892, the number of AerCap ordinary shares being registered. Each Genesis ADS represents one Genesis common share, par value $0.001 per share.

(3)
Computed in accordance with Rule 457(f) of the Securities Act by multiplying the proposed maximum offering price by 0.00007130.



EXPLANATORY NOTE AND INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE

        We are filing this registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to General Instruction H of Form F-4 and Rule 462(b) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, for the sole purpose of registering an additional 2,892 ordinary shares, par value €0.01 per share (the "AerCap Common Shares"), for issuance in connection with the amalgamation of Genesis Lease Limited with AerCap International Bermuda Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of AerCap Holdings N.V. We have previously registered 34,346,596 AerCap Common Shares under the Securities Act by means of our currently effective registration statement on Form F-4, Registration No. 333-162365.

        In accordance with Rule 462(b), this registration statement incorporates by reference the contents of our currently effective registration statement, which was declared effective on February 3, 2010, including all amendments, supplements and exhibits thereto and all information incorporated by reference therein, other than the exhibits included herein. Additional opinions and consents required to be filed with this registration statement are listed on the Index to Exhibits attached to and filed with this registration statement.


ITEM 21.    EXHIBITS AND FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES.


Exhibit Index

Exhibit Number   Description
  5.1   Legal opinion of NautaDutilh N.V. regarding the validity of the securities being registered

 

23.1

 

Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers Accountants N.V., an independent registered public accounting firm

 

23.2

 

Consent of NautaDutilh N.V. (included in the opinion filed as Exhibit 5.1 to this registration statement)

 

23.3

 

Consent of KPMG, an independent registered public accounting firm


SIGNATURES

        Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, the registrant has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Amsterdam, The Netherlands on March 19, 2010.

    AerCap Holdings N.V.

 

 

By:

 

/s/ KLAUS HEINEMANN

        Name:   Klaus Heinemann
        Title:   Chief Executive Officer

Pursuant to the requirement of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

Signature
 
Title
 
Date

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
*

Pieter Korteweg
  Chairman of the Board of Directors   March 19, 2010

/s/ KLAUS HEINEMANN

Klaus Heinemann

 

Chief Executive Officer
(principal executive officer)

 

March 19, 2010

/s/ ROBERT G. WARDEN

Robert G. Warden

 

Non-Executive Director

 

March 19, 2010

*

David J. Teitelbaum

 

Non-Executive Director

 

March 19, 2010

*

Gerald P. Strong

 

Non-Executive Director

 

March 19, 2010

*

W. Brett Ingersoll

 

Non-Executive Director

 

March 19, 2010

*

Marius J. L. Jonkhart

 

Non-Executive Director

 

March 19, 2010

*

James N. Chapman

 

Non-Executive Director

 

March 19, 2010

Signature
 
Title
 
Date

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
*

Ronald J. Bolger
  Non-Executive Director   March 19, 2010

*

Keith A. Helming

 

Chief Financial Officer
(principal financial officer)
(principal accounting officer)

 

March 19, 2010

*

Donald Puglisi

 

Authorized Representative in the United States

 

March 19, 2010

*By:
 

 

/s/ ROBERT G. WARDEN

Robert G. Warden, attorney-in-fact

 

 

 

 


Exhibit Index

Exhibit Number   Description
  5.1   Legal opinion of NautaDutilh N.V. regarding the validity of the securities being
Registered

 

23.1

 

Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers Accountants N.V., an independent registered public
accounting firm

 

23.2

 

Consent of NautaDutilh N.V. (included in the opinion filed as Exhibit 5.1 to this registration statement)

 

23.3

 

Consent of KPMG, an independent registered public accounting firm



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EXPLANATORY NOTE AND INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE
Exhibit Index
SIGNATURES
Exhibit Index