It’s not just IFM Investors and Blackstone’s deal makers who had a long weekend before Tuesday morning’s deadline for binding offers for AirTrunk. Spare a thought for debt teams at the more than 40 banks that lend to the $20 billion-plus data centre giant.
Street Talk understands both Blackstone and the IFM-led consortiums have agreed to keep AirTrunk’s $8.5 billion OpCo level debt intact to finance their bids. This is the asset-level debt in AirTrunk’s capital structure and is held at leverage of about nine-times earnings.
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