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Private debt behemoths back Whitehaven’s $6.3 billion coal buy
Whitehaven Coal had no troubles bankrolling its $6.2 billion acquisition of BHP’s Daunia and Blackwater coal mines. Street Talk can reveal three of the world’s largest players in private credit wrote cheques for its $US900 million credit facility.
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Sarah Thompson has co-edited Street Talk since 2009, specialising in private equity, investment banking, M&A and equity capital markets stories. Prior to that, she spent 10 years in London as a markets and M&A reporter at Bloomberg and Dow Jones. Email Sarah at sarah.thompson@afr.com
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