Comdisco Inc will today announce that it is buying the UK assets, if not the UK business, of Adia SA’s Meridian International computer leasing subsidiary: the operations on the continent are being disposed of elsewhere; in the US, Meridian had started liquidating its portfolio, but that process has now ceased and it is again in talks to sell what is left, with Comdisco, and it is thought, others, negotiating to buy what is worth having; all parties would like all the deals to be wrapped up by year-end: the move to buy the UK end is a logical one many of Meridian’s constituents were UK companies, and although it is headquartered in Slough, Comdisco Europe is much stronger on the continent, in Germany and France.
