The new owners of the Vue Entertainment cinema chain will be considering a series of financing options over the next six weeks, as they prepare to take on a debt package to back the acquisition.

Mark Redman, senior managing director and head of Europe at Omers Private Equity, which, alongside Alberta Investment Management Corporation, this week announced it had agreed to fully underwrite a deal to acquire the cinema chain from Doughty Hanson for £935m, told Financial News' sister publication Private Equity News that the investors would be considering financing options, including European or US debt financing and the possibility of a high yield bond, amid "buoyant" debt market conditions.