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About $138 billion of buyout debt is expected to hit markets in the coming months, the highest volume since before the 2008 financial crisis, according to JPMorgan Chase.
Buyout debt is the borrowing a company takes on when acquired through a leveraged deal, meaning a purchase funded mostly with loans rather than equity.
Borrowers are moving early, trying to secure investor demand before a wave of competing offerings lands at once.
What the pipeline actually contains JPMorgan breaks the expected issuance into roughly $92 billion in the United States and nearly $46 billion in Europe, both figures covering leveraged mergers and acquisitions activity.
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