In Brief: Green Tree Said to Have $750M Securitization

Specialty finance company Green Tree Financial Corp. is coming to market with a $750 million offering of securities backed by manufactured housing loans, according to sources familiar with the transaction.

Lehman Brothers is the lead underwriter, with Merrill Lynch & Co. and Salomon Smith Barney serving as co-managers, the sources said.

The deal is a new securitization, the sources said, in contrast to the repackaging last month of some old Green Tree manufactured securities into a new bond offering by Lehman Brothers.

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