Bank of America completes first syndication of asset based credit outside North America


The European Business Credit Group of Bank of America (BABC) has today announced that it has completed the syndication of a GBP75million revolving credit facility to Ideal Hardware and other European subsidiaries of Bell Microproducts Inc. This will be used to repay the company`s existing facility and to provide ongoing and larger working capital facilities to allow the European businesses to fund organic growth and acquisitions.

In what is believed to be a groundbreaking transaction and the first of its kind outside of North America, BABC announced the first ever fully syndicated asset based lending transaction provided to a Pan-European corporate group.



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