Shedding the LBO Albatross, China Debt Plans: Credit Weekly

  • From Twitter to Citrix, banks looking to shed LBO financings
  • China creditors start to see restructuring plans take shape

A man walks past the China Evergrande Group Royal Peak residential development under construction in Beijing, China.

Source: Bloomberg

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With just three weeks left in 2022, leveraged finance bankers are scrambling to unload a $40 billion albatross: the risky buyout financings that they committed to when credit markets were booming but that their usual investors will no longer touch.