Cinven is tapping banks to help finance its acquisition of specialty pharmaceutical company Theramex with debt financing of around €1.5 billion ($1.7 billion).

Banks marketing a €550 million ($616 million) loan refinancing for European energy infrastructure and services company Iqony have pulled the deal after failing to garner enough investor interest amid wider market turmoil.

Multiple banks are competing to join a $4.25 billion debt financing backing Curium’s acquisition of radiopharmaceutical company Lantheus Holdings Inc., before the deal is syndicated to investors next year.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. have taken a rare move to limit their exposure on a $5 billion loan sale for AI startup Volta Infrastructure Holdings Ltd. as investors demand higher yields for risky debt tied to the artificial intelligence boom.

Apollo Global Management is set to opt for aircraft financing rather than high yield bonds for a £3.5 billion debt package backing its acquisition of low-cost carrier EasyJet Plc.

A cast of thousands. Records smashed. Instant losses and angry phone calls. If the months-long search for debt to fund the audacious takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. by David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance Corp. were a prestige drama, the past few days would have been the messy season finale.

Ares Management Corp. and Apollo Global Management are leading a $6.5 billion debt package for Phoenix Tower International, a Florida-based owner and operator of telecom tower infrastructure.

Paramount Skydance Corp. has been talking to investors for months about the debt it’s selling to fund its Warner Bros. Discovery buyout, only to find that the longer it’s been forced to talk, the more it has to pay.

SoftBank Group Corp.’s billionaire founder Masayoshi Son has said he’s “all in” on AI. The conglomerate’s record $11.1 billion junk bond deal last week shows the lengths his executives have been going to help finance that vision.

Bankers looking to sell £3.6 billion ($4.8 billion) of debt backing the take-private of DCC Energy Plc are expected to target high-yield bond investors and infrastructure loan buyers.

Paramount Skydance Corp. is looking to wrap up a massive $52 billion debt sale to fund its takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. within the next week, aligning with its compressed timeline to finalize the buyout before facing onerous penalties.

Bankers are reaching out to investors ahead of the sale of $49 billion in financing backing Paramount Skydance Corp.’s takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., after the company settled a series of lawsuits that had held up the $110 billion acquisition.

Banks including JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Banco Santander SA are leading a debt financing of more than £1 billion to fund Drax Group Plc’s purchase of renewable energy company Bluefield Solar Income Fund.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. are among banks lining up to finance billions of dollars in European AI debt as the region races to close the gap with the US.

Junk-rated borrowers across the globe are lining up at least $13 billion in refinancing deals, in a bid to lock in tighter credit spreads ahead of potential central bank interest-rate hikes.

Credit investors look set to be spoiled for choice as bankers gear up to offload in excess of $138 billion of buyout debt in coming months.

Bankers are lining up about €1 billion ($1.2 billion) of debt financing to back Apax Partners’s purchase of two businesses from packaging firm Gerresheimer AG.

Barclays Plc is preparing to sell about $875 million of debt financing used to fund a takeover of UK aerospace supplier Senior Plc.

Banks have lined up enough investor demand to cover most of the roughly $49 billion debt package backing Paramount Skydance Corp.’s takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. — long before launching the deal.

Platinum Equity is the last remaining bidder for Nestle SA’s water business after rival Clayton Dubilier & Rice dropped out of the race, according to people familiar with the matter.