Banks funding Twitter sale to Elon Musk may lose $500M (NYSE:TWTR)

Banks led by Morgan Stanley could lose about $500 million of their effort to fund Elon Musk’s $44 billion buy of Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) because the debt market have seized in latest months.

Lenders together with Morgan Stanley (MS) Financial institution of America Corp. (BAC) Barclays Plc (BCS) and Mitsubishi UFJ initially dedicated $13 billion of debt financing for the transaction.

These banks could now lose about $500 million in the event that they needed to promote the debt now, in accordance with Bloomberg calculations in a late Friday story. They initially agreed to fund the acquisition even when they could not promote the debt and now its unlikely traders would wish to purchase the debt within the present markets.

The report comes as Twitter’s (TWTR) trial to power Elon Musk to undergo with a $44 billion buyout has been paused till Oct. 28 to permit the events to shut on the deal, the Delaware decide presiding over the case dominated on Thursday.

The banks have been bruised within the debt markets in different massive transactions in latest weeks. Bloomberg reported Tuesday that banks together with BofA (BAC) and Barclays (BCS) are anticipated to fund the $8.35 billion takeout of Nielsen (NLSN) by Elliott Administration and Brookfield Enterprise Companions, which is scheduled to shut this week.

There additionally seems to be a excessive chance that banks, together with Citi (C) and BofA (BAC) might want to fund the greater than $5 billion in debt for Apollo’s (APO) deliberate acquisition of Tenneco (TEN), in accordance with the Bloomberg report.

And final month banks had been reportedly on the hook for Citrix Techniques $16.5 billion sale to Elliott and Vista Fairness, the place banks that underwrote debt backing the deal are collectively headed for $500M in losses when the debt was auctioned off at a reduction.