Eddystone Finance/Longstone Finance
British supermarket group Sainsbury's Eddystone Finance and Longstone Finance totalled a very sizeable £2.6 billion ($5.2 billion). The transaction utilized a groundbreaking operation company/property company structure that acquired from J Sainsbury and other companies of the Sainsbury's group the properties and used rental payments to meet the payment obligations under the loans. The transactions were backed by commercial mortgage loans on 127 supermarket properties in the U.K. Arrangers on the deal were Morgan Stanley and UBS Investment Bank.