Univision’s Buyers Arrange Financing

“A consortium of private investors who won last month’s bidding for Los Angeles-based Univision Communications Inc. has lined up $10.25 billion in debt financing, making the acquisition a highly leveraged transaction.

Chairman A. Jerrold Perenchio and Univision’s board last month accepted the $12.3-billion offer from the group, which consists of Madison Dearborn Partners, Providence Equity Partners, Texas Pacific Group, Thomas H. Lee Partners and Los Angeles billionaire Haim Saban.”

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