date:May 09, 2014
Suntory Holdings Ltd aims to raise more than 800 billion yen ($8 billion) in debt to finance its purchase of U.S. spirits company Beam Inc, Japan's third-biggest outbound deal ever, people with knowledge of the deal said on Thursday.
The privately held beverage company is tapping a range of lenders to buy senior and subordinated loans in yen and dollars, as well as dollar bonds, to ensure longer-term funding of its recently completed $13.6 billion purchase of the maker of Jim Beam and Maker's M