Aaron Weinman

GameStop Corp.’s audacious $56 billion bid for eBay Inc. is relying on a tactic made famous by the corporate raiders of the 1980s to help prove it has the means to carry out the deal — if not the cash in hand.

Meta Platforms Inc. is working on a financing package for a data center in El Paso, Texas, that could total roughly $13 billion, underscoring Big Tech’s growing reliance on debt to bankroll the infrastructure behind the AI boom.

A private credit fund overseen by Apollo Global Management Inc. reported a quarterly loss, citing declining valuations amid market volatility and weakness in some specific deals.

GameStop Corp.’s proposed $20 billion financing of its bid for eBay Inc. rests on the assumption that the combined company’s debt would be investment grade, a premise that people familiar with the matter and at least one ratings firm suggest is far from a sure thing.

Bankers were still putting the final touches on Alphabet Inc.’s blockbuster $17 billion of bond sales when word started to spread Monday morning on Wall Street: the company is already hawking more debt.

(Bloomberg) -- Bankers were still putting the final touches on Alphabet Inc.'s blockbuster $17 billion of bond sales when word started to spread Monday morning on Wall Street: the company is already hawking more debt.

Paramount Is Pulling Every Lever to Sell LBO Debt Aaron Weinman and Davide Barbuscia 6 min read

(Bloomberg) -- For leveraged finance practitioners, artificial intelligence is the only game in town — especially in the absence of more debt deals to finance mergers and acquisitions.

A group of banks including JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Bank of America Corp. is preparing to sell a $2.5 billion debt package to support Long Lake Management Inc.’s acquisition of American Express Global Business Travel.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is preparing to sell a $1.85 billion debt financing backing Belden’s acquisition of Ruckus Network.