CIT Debt Extends to Mega-Buyouts – Full List of Sponsor Facilities

As requested, we have posted the full list of 133 LBO-backed companies with CIT in the capital structure below. For reference, yesterday we posted a list of 30-some LBO-backed companies which used CIT as a lead arranger over the last three years. The full list is for the same time period.

The difference in size between the types of companies on the lists is striking: yesterday’s list of CIT-led transactions is clearly populated with middle market to lower middle market companies sponsored by likes of Thoma Cressey and Wind Point Partners. But this list shows that CIT’s reach goes all the way to the mega-buyouts.

Companies like Michaels Stores, backed by Blackstone and Bain Capital, Dollar General and HCA, backed by KKR, and Dunkin Brands, backed by Bain Capital and THL Partners, fall squarely into the mega-buyout category. Still, the majority of the companies are middle market.

Incidentally, CIT shares are trading up this morning as the firm scrambles to “secure lifelines” from private sector investors. One rumors that’s been circulating is that that JPMorgan may buy its “factoring” unit, which provides financing to the fashion world.

Update: Scribd is misbehaving, so I’ll post the list there as soon as I work that out. For now, view the list directly:

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