Bidders for Spain's MasMovil secure increased financing package

Reuters

Published Jul 02, 2020 02:09PM ET

MADRID (Reuters) - A consortium bidding to buy Spanish telecoms operator MasMovil (MC:MASM) secured a loan of 2 billion euros ($2.25 billion) to finance the deal, according to a term sheet from one of the lead managing banks.

The seven-year loan, which private equity firms Cinven, KKR (N:KKR) and Providence aim to use the finance the bid, was increased in size from an originally targeted 1.5 billion euros.