11. Lenders

UK Publicly Traded Firms

11.1 List the major lenders and the amount of loans.

In this time of pri­vate equity and lever­aged buy­outs, lenders may play very strong roles in a firm.  For example, Blackstone, a major private equity firm, played a major role in the restricting of Hilton Hotels. If your tar­get firm is highly lever­aged (in debt), find­ing infor­ma­tion on lenders is even more important.

Some information about lenders can be found in the  Annual Return available fromCompanies House WebCHeck.  Mergent Online (fee-based) is the best site for accessing information on lenders.