Claire Ruckin

Big Mover ... Dominic Ashcroft, head of leveraged finance for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at Goldman Sachs, is leaving to join Blackstone https://t.co/qLyYCkUQUB via @markets

Citigroup and JPMorgan are sounding out investors for a $2.2 billion debt financing for Canadian auto parts maker ABC, which will help support its purchase of Britain’s TI Fluid https://t.co/zNtQ9dZpRX via @markets

Banks are gearing up to offload about €2.7 billion of debt backing Bain Capital’s acquisition of German facility-management company Apleona Group https://t.co/IRYglcLIzI via @markets

Private equity firms can't sell their companies right now, not helped by Donald Trump's wild tariff gyrations, so they're getting rid of their equity instead https://t.co/sg5HqlaihQ via @markets

Banks are gearing up to offload the €8.65 billion debt package backing Clayton Dubilier & Rice’s purchase of a stake in Sanofi’s consumer health division https://t.co/EPXxaK0KK5 via @markets

Companies in both Europe and the US are shelving plans to tap the riskiest corner of the loan market after Trump’s trade wars triggered economic uncertainty https://t.co/sFlX1BydBk via @markets

Manchester United’s surprise announcement this week of plans for a new 100,000-seater stadium was the easy bit. Now it needs to find the money https://t.co/11OI96bsfq via @markets

Amid a dearth of new deals, fee-starved investment bankers and private credit lenders are salivating over the prospect of Walgreens going private in one of the largest leveraged buyouts since the global financial crisis. https://t.co/gNCh63B0ZO via @markets

Bankers are working on funding packages of around $12 billion for Walgreens Boots Alliance to back a potential take-private deal by Sycamore Partners… one of the biggest buyout financings since the great financial crisis https://t.co/t3waM9Rb6c via @business

In 2025’s go-go leveraged debt markets, everything is up for negotiation, but a trio of investor protections are proving to be lines that lenders won’t cross https://t.co/Sen5q7gHad via @markets

Citigroup and UBS are organizing about €2 billion of funding to back Bain Capital’s acquisition of German facility-management company Apleona https://t.co/3b2icxpkSj via @markets

Banks behind Europe’s biggest buyout debt deal of 2024 are in effect renting out their balance sheets for free to Clayton Dubilier & Rice as they wait to pass on the debt to investors https://t.co/hBhDhQtB5Q via @markets

Invesco has entered the arena of ETFs in Europe that track collateralized loan obligations, with a target to hit $1 billion on each of the two new funds within a year https://t.co/ACBXNMoQMP via @markets

KKR is now likely to hold onto the maker of Flora and Country Crock spreads until at least 2026, as it seeks to reduce its debt before any listing or sale with @Swetha_Gopinath https://t.co/PA6aA0Bwy8 via @markets

Bankers at JPMorgan came up with an unorthodox solution for Getty, which needed to raise cash quickly https://t.co/G2K8lGje3n via @markets

Private equity firms are finding new ways to keep a tighter grip on portfolio companies if they get into financial distress https://t.co/23o7dxq076 via @markets

(Don’t) Show me the money. With Eleanor duncan and Aaron weinman https://t.co/xEUHeRWira via @business