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Covering Leveraged Finance at Bloomberg News. All opinions are my own

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The deals just keep coming… Banks are putting together a debt financing package of more than €4 billion to back Carlyle’s acquisition of a stake in BASF’s coatings business bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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A leveraged buyout of video game giant Electronic Arts promises a potential bonanza for Wall Street banks — as long as they can pull it off. Here's what to know bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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Goldman Sachs and Bank of America lead a €1.215 billion loan for Verisure after Europe’s largest IPO in three years bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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The consortium buying Electronic Arts is set to add more than a dozen banks to its underwriting group after JPMorgan put up $20 billion of debt to bankroll the leveraged buyout bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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One of Goldman’s most prominent London-based investment bankers, Michael Marsh, is set to depart the bank. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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JPMorgan is set to keep 40% of the fees tied to the $20 billion debt financing backing the take-private of Electronic Arts, disappointing a large group of banks that were keen to get a bigger share of the deal bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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Tax rises loom. Borrowing costs remain stubbornly high. And inflation is still way above target. But for investors in UK companies there’s at least one bright spot: sterling junk loans bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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Private equity firms are facing a double dilemma when it comes to cashing out — but one firm's new strategy could become a model for the industry bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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Wall Street gambled — and lost — on a $1.64 billion loan for a lottery company backed by a Czech billionaire to fund a majority stake in a fantasy sports operator in Atlanta bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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For all the talk of a turf war between banks and private credit, JPMorgan is dominating on the field — with giant checks that only the biggest US bank can write bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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Clayton Dubilier & Rice is expected to sell about $4.5 billion of leveraged loans to help fund its acquisition of packaging firm Sealed Air as part of one of the biggest buyout financings underwritten by banks in months bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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Leveraged finance bankers have long anticipated the return of M&A. Now they’re betting that next year they might finally be right bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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Even if Paramount manages to take over Warner Bros. against the company’s will, it faces another high hurdle: coping with the colossal $54 billion of debt it’s planning to take on bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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A highly-anticipated, multi-billion dollar buyout financing is giving the loan market its first major test of 2026 bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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Bankers are jostling for a spot on a debt package of up to €4.5 billion ($5.3 billion) backing a potential takeover of Polish parcel locker operator InPost bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and UBS are leading a debt financing deal backing a Chinese firm’s acquisition of Italian high-end sneaker producer Golden Goose bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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Private equity firm Advent is preparing to launch the sale of Italian industrial confectioner Irca, which could fetch around €3 billion ($3.5 billion), while lenders work on debt financings to back a potential buyout bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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CVC Capital Partners is looking to raise €2.75 billion ($3.2 billion) of debt against its sports franchise, whose investments range from Spanish football’s top division and English professional rugby to volleyball and women’s tennis bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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Nestlé is forging ahead with the sale of a stake in its €5 billion ($5.8 billion) water business, which includes the well-known brands Perrier and S.Pellegrino, people familiar with the matter said bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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Banks were so eager to get a piece of the debt package backing Netflix’s bid for Warner that some have been left with a smaller slice of the deal than they wanted bloomberg.com/news/articles/…