Blackstone starts marketing huge F&R buyout loan: Reuters
The US$8 billion-equivalent term loan B portion of the debt financing backing Blackstone Group’s US$20 billion acquisition of a 55 percent stake in Thomson Reuters’ Financial and Risk (F&R) unit is being shown to large institutional investors before an anticipated September launch, sources told Reuters. The US$13.5 billion financing, which includes loans and bonds, is being led by JP Morgan, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Citigroup and is the largest buyout financing since the financial crisis.





