BJ’s Wholesale To Cut LBO Loan To $2.18B

BJ’s Wholesale Club has reduced the size and increased the rate on $2.18 billion of loans.

BJ’s Wholesale Club has reduced the size and increased the rate on $2.18 billion of loans, Bloomberg reports. The move will back BJ’s Wholesale buyout by Leonard Green & Partners and CVC Capital Partners.

BJ’s reduced a first-lien piece by $50 million to $1.075 billion and boosted the rate on the debt to 5.75 percentage points more than the London interbank offered rate. The loan will have a 1.25 percent floor on the lending benchmark. Interest on the $200 million second-lien piece will pay 8.75 percentage points more than Libor.

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