Commercial Real Estate is happy to announce that it recently supported Mr. Boekhoorn, one of the key clients of NIBC, by the acquisition of the HTCE Business Science Park from Philips.

On 2 March 2012, the restructuring of the Sound II RMBS was completed and the Class A notes issued by Sound II were affirmed at AAAsf by Fitch Ratings.

NIBC Corporate Banking Food & Retail NL is happy to announce the successful closing of a participation in a credit facility for Jumbo Groep, a key client of NIBC since 1999.

The NIBC Industrials team has closed a new financing facility with Hunter Douglas, a Rotterdam based, listed company. The company is already for many years a valued client of NIBC.

The Essence IV RMBS transaction was increased from EUR 666m to EUR 999m by changing the denomination of all issued bonds from EUR 100k to EUR 150k.

On February 9th State Secretary of Finance, Frans Weekers, sent a proposal to the Second Chamber of Parliament to set up a committee charged with the task of redesigning the income tax system.

Hubert van West has been appointed to succeed Jan Willem van Roggen as Managing Director of NIBC Commercial Real Estate from 1 January 2012.

NIBC Infrastructure & Renewables Frankfurt has successfully closed the financing of Baltic 1, the first offshore wind farm in the German North Sea.