Chindata Group Successfully Closes $500 Million Syndicated Loan
Chindata Group Holdings Limited (Nasdaq: CD) announced the successful closure of a $500 million syndicated loan on June 24, 2022. The facility has a 3-year term, with an option for a 2-year extension. This financing, arranged by Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley, aims to enhance the company's capital structure and support project development. CFO Nick Wang emphasized the significance of this achievement amid volatile market conditions, reflecting the company's strong fundamentals and its commitment to healthy business momentum.
- Successfully closed a $500 million syndicated loan, enhancing capital structure.
- Loan secured despite volatile markets, showcasing strong fundamentals.
- Involvement of 15 lenders indicates confidence in Chindata's financial viability.
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BEIJING, June 24, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Chindata Group Holdings Limited (“Chindata Group” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: CD), a leading carrier-neutral hyperscale data center solution provider in Asia-Pacific emerging markets, today announced that the Company has successfully closed a
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Nick Wang, CFO of Chindata Group: “Despite ongoing volatile markets and the persistent COVID-19 situation, we have successfully secured our financing in a syndicated format. It reflects the attractive fundamentals of the Company and we’ve further diversified and strengthened our financing channels by having more trusted and strong banking partners on board. The proceeds will be used to support our project development and to repay one of our existing debt, which is expected to further improve our capital structure to and to safeguard our healthy business momentum going forward.”
About Chindata Group
Chindata Group is a leading carrier-neutral hyperscale data center solution provider in Asia-Pacific emerging markets and a first mover in building next-generation hyperscale data centers in China, India and Southeast Asia markets, focusing on the whole life cycle of facility planning, investment, design, construction and operation of ecosystem infrastructure in the IT industry. Chindata Group provides its clients with business solutions in major countries and regions in Asia-Pacific emerging markets, including asset-heavy ecosystem chain services such as industrial bases, data centers, network and IT value-added services.
Chindata Group operates two sub-brands: "Chindata" and "Bridge Data Centres". Chindata operates hyper-density IT cluster infrastructure in the Greater Beijing Area, the Yangtze River Delta Area and the Greater Bay Area, the three key economic areas in China, and has become the engine of the regional digital economies. Bridge Data Centres, with its top international development and operation talents in the industry, owns fast deployable data center clusters in Malaysia and India, and seeks business opportunities in other Asia-Pacific emerging markets.
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