Virgin tests US bid as Europe longs for more
The $2.755bn portion of the loan financing backing Virgin Media’s $16bn acquisition by Liberty Global, announced this week, will test the ability of a borrower with no US business to tap the US market for a jumbo loan. But what European loans bankers really want to see is the development of a healthy, robust domestic market than can support such deals unaided.
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