Deals Rumor Mill: Verizon, Johnson & Johnson, KKR

By Karlee Weinmann (September 6, 2013, 4:00 PM EDT) -- Verizon Communications Inc. will meet with lenders starting Sept. 12 to talk over a $14 billion loan package to help it cover its $130 billion bid to take full control of a lucrative wireless joint venture that it now splits with the U.K.'s Vodafone PLC, Reuters reported Friday. The debt will include $12 billion in term loans, with half due in three years and the remaining $6 billion chunk maturing in five years, plus a $2 billion revolving credit line. The New York mobile carrier is looking to cobble together bonds and new bank loans to replace a $61 billion bridge financing commitment from JPMorganChase & Co., Bank of America Corp., Morgan Stanley and Barclays PLC....

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