Men’s Wearhouse has begun marketing a $400 million junk bond, offering one of the highest yields of the year, as the clothing retailer seeks funds to pay owners following one of the busiest periods ever for debt-funded dividends.

Banks including Royal Bank of Canada kicked off the sale of $1.25 billion of loans tied to Investindustrial’s takeover of TreeHouse Foods Inc, a US food and beverage producer that supplies Walmart Inc. private-label products.

Columbus McKinnon Corp. and the buyer of Hillenbrand Inc. are tapping the junk-bond market to help fund leveraged buyouts.

Charter Communications Inc. sold $3 billion of junk bonds Tuesday as it looks to pay off debt due through 2027 and repurchase equity.

Developers of a data center linked to Alphabet Inc.’s Google are tapping the junk-bond market to finance the project in a deal led by Morgan Stanley, extending a borrowing spree powering the artificial-intelligence boom.

Perimeter Solutions Inc., a US firefighting chemical producer, is joining the growing list of companies hurrying to the bond market for cheap M&A funding.

A group of banks including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley improved terms of a debt offering for Sevita Whole Health LLC after an initial struggle to sell a loan for the healthcare services firm, according to people familiar with the matter.