Royal Bank of Canada (RY) and Deutsche Bank (DB) are pre-marketing about $1.8 billion of debt tied to Investindustrial's acquisition of TreeHouse Foods (THS), Bloomberg reported Thursday, citing people familiar with the situation.

Royal Bank of Canada is in early talks on about $1.25 billion term loan priced at about 4 percentage points above the benchmark, while discussions are being held on a $550 million secured junk bond offering led by Deutsche Bank, the report said. Size and pricing have yet to be finalized, Bloomberg said.

TreeHouse agreed in November to be acquired and taken private by Investindustrial for $2.9 billion, with the deal expected to close in Q1.

RBC, Deutsche Bank, TreeHouse Foods, and Investindustrial didn't immediately respond to MT Newswires' requests for comment.

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