Financial Sponsors

Bank of America’s Financial Sponsors Group is one of the largest dedicated Financial Sponsors groups on the street. With a team of experienced professionals and global capabilities, the group has over 100 active relationships with Financial Sponsors across 10 industries.

Senior professionals partner with industry coverage groups in Consumer & Retail, Financial Institutions, General Industrial, Healthcare, Media, Telecom, Technology, Natural Resources, Real Estate and Business & Information Services.

We have established ourselves as a skilled, experienced advisor delivering creative investment ideas and comprehensive solutions across products and industries.

Proven leadership

Seamless coordination of advisory, financing and industry expertise
Leading leveraged finance capability
Played a lead role in nearly 50% of the largest announced U.S. sponsor related take‑privates 2005-2006, representing $180 billion out of $365 billion in volume ($500 million+ transaction size)¹
Played a lead role on over 37% of take private transaction volume in 2006 and 2007¹

Facilitated almost half of the largest LBO transactions in 2007
In 1H08 ranked #1 overall with 12.5% market share²

Representative Transactions

Solution Spectrum


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		Equity capital raising
		M&A
		Interest rate risk management
		Foreign exchange
		Treasury services
		Trade services
		Correspondent banks’ needs
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¹Source: Thomson Financial and public documents

²Source: Thomson Reuters / Freeman & Co. research and estimates

*This announcement is neither an offer to sell nor a solicitation of an offer to buy these securities. These securities are not registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and may only be sold to qualified institutional buyers pursuant to Rule 144A or pursuant to another applicable exemption. All of these securities have been sold; this announcement appears as a matter of record only.

Certain activities and services referred to herein are provided by Banc of America Securities LLC, member FINRA/SIPC, and other affiliates of Bank of America Corporation.