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.