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Published on 8/22/2013 in the Prospect News High Yield Daily.

High Yield Calendar: $200 million deals being marketed

Expected August-September Business

ORIONSTONE PTY LTD.: $200 million seven-year secured notes (B3/B); non-callable for three years; Rule 144A for life; Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC bookrunner; proceeds to repay debt; Mackay, Australia-based supplier of heavy earthmoving rental equipment to the infrastructure, oil, gas and mining industries; expected September business.

On The Horizon

ACTIVISION BLIZZARD INC. $2.5 billion: $1 billion first-lien senior secured notes and $1.5 billion senior unsecured notes; J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, BofA Merrill Lynch; also $2.5 billion credit facility; proceeds, along with about $1.2 billion cash on hand, to acquire approximately 429 million Activision shares and certain tax attributes from Vivendi, in exchange for roughly $5.83 billion in cash, or $13.60 per share, in a transaction expected to close by the end of September 2013; Activision Blizzard is a Santa Monica, Calif.-based interactive entertainment publishing company.

BUENA VISTA GAMING AUTHORITY: $220 million eight-year senior secured notes; Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, BofA Merrill Lynch (joint); Rule 144A and Regulation S for life; callable in four years at par plus 50% of the coupon; annual mandatory redemption offer of 50% of available funds starting at 103; 101% poison put; to fund construction of the Buenavue Casino; Ione, Calif.-based tribal gaming firm.

COMMUNITY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC. $4.58 billion bridged debt: $2.205 senior secured and $2.375 senior unsecured; BofA Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC; to help fund its acquisition of Health Management Associates Inc., expected to close in the first quarter of 2014; Community Health is a Nashville, Tenn.-based hospital company. Health Management is a Naples, Fla.-based owner and manager of hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers.

DELL INC. $3.25 billion secured notes: $2 billion first-lien notes and $1.25 billion second-lien notes; also $7.5 billion credit facility; BofA Merrill Lynch, Barclays, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, RBC Capital Markets; to help fund the acquisition of the company by Michael Dell and Silver Lake, expected to close at the end of the second quarter of 2013; Round Rock, Texas-based provider of technology and business products and services.

DOLE FOOD CO. INC.: $325 million senior notes backed by $325 million senior unsecured bridge loan priced at Libor plus 725 bps with a 1% Libor floor and 50 bps spread increases every three months until it hits a cap; also $825 million credit facility; Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Scotia Capital; to help fund the purchase of the company by chairman and chief executive officer David H. Murdock, expected to close during the fourth quarter of 2013; Westlake Village, Calif.-based fruit and vegetables company.

FTS INTERNATIONAL, INC.: $400 million secured notes to repay term loan; company is soliciting consents from holders of its 7 1/8% notes due 2018 to amendments to the indenture governing the notes; BofA Merrill Lynch and Citigroup Global Markets Inc. are the solicitation agents; provider of well completion services for the oil and gas industry with corporate offices in Fort Worth and Cisco, Texas.

GLOBALIVE WIRELESS MANAGEMENT CORP.: Up to $1 billion equivalent in U.S. dollar- and Canadian dollar-denominated notes; Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, BMO Capital Markets Corp.; Rule 144A; to fund expansion of its wireless network and for general corporate purposes; Toronto-based wireless communications services provider.

HUDSON'S BAY CO.: $400 million senior notes and $1.9 billion term loan (expected blended rate in the mid-5% range); Bank of America Merrill Lynch, RBC Capital Markets; to fund the acquisition of Saks, Inc., expected to close by the end of 2013; Hudson's Bay is an Ontario-based department store operator; Saks is a New York-based retailer.

INTEGRATED MISSION SOLUTIONS LLC: $340 million senior secured notes backed by a $340 million senior secured bridge loan led by Jefferies LLC; also $70 million revolver; to fund the buyout of Michael Baker Corp., expected to close in the late in the third quarter or early in the fourth quarter; Integrated Mission Solutions, an affiliate of DC Capital Partners LLC, is a government contractor that provides engineering, construction, technical services, strategic consulting and other mission-critical services and solutions; Michael Baker is a Moon Township, Pa.-based provider of engineering, design, planning and construction services.

IONA ENERGY CO. (UK) LTD. (IONA ENERGY INC.): $250 million to $300 million callable senior secured bonds; Pareto Securities; to refinance credit facility, of which approximately $139 million is drawn, and to partially retire its existing structured energy derivative transaction, also to fund the delivery of its Orlando and Kells projects to first oil, as well as mature and accelerate its other pipeline of development opportunities; Calgary, Alta.-based oil and gas exploration, development and production company focused on oil and gas development in the United Kingdom's North Sea.

M&G FINANCE CORP.: $200 million to $300 million senior secured notes due 2019 (expected B3//BB), downsized from $500 million; J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (sole); Rule 144A and Regulation S for life; non-callable (call protection increased from four years); to finance construction of new PET and PTA production facilities, pay back intercompany debt and fund working capital; Houston-based Mossi & Ghisolfi (M&G) produces polyethylene terephthalate (PET) resin for packaging applications.

NAL OIL & GAS: C$150 million to C$250 million notes; RBC Capital Markets, BMO Nesbitt Burns; Calgary, Alta., trust acquires interests in Canada's upstream conventional oil and gas industry.

NIELSEN HOLDINGS NV: $1.3 billion bridge, most or all to be taken out with high-yield bonds, to fund its acquisition of Arbitron Inc.; J.P. Morgan Securities LLC; Nielsen is a New York and Netherlands-based provider of information and insights into what consumers watch and buy; Arbitron is a Columbia, Md.-based media and marketing research firm.

RUE 21 INC.: $250 million senior notes backed by a bridge loan via J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, BofA Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs Bank USA; also $680 million facility; to help fund the purchase of the company by Apax Partners, expected to close by the end of 2013; Warrendale, Pa.-based retailer of girls' and guys' apparel and accessories.

SILVERLEAF RESORTS, INC.: $175 million senior secured notes due 2019; Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.; non-callable for three years; to pre-fund development of vacation ownership inventory, to refinance a portion of the company's existing debt, to pay a dividend to the sponsor; Dallas-based resort operator.

TENET HEALTCARE CORP.: $2.8 billion senior notes backed by a bridge loan and $1.8 billion term loan; BofA Merrill Lynch (sole); to help fund the acquisition of Vanguard Health, expected to close before the end of 2013; Tenet is a Dallas-based health care services company; Vanguard is a Nashville, Tenn.-based owner and operator of acute care and specialty hospitals and complementary facilities.

U.S. XPRESS ENTERPRISES, INC.: $250 million senior secured second-lien notes due 2020 (Caa1/B-); Wells Fargo Securities LLC (left books), Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC (joint books), Regions Securities LLC (co); Rule 144A and Regulation S with registration rights; callable in three years at par plus 75% of the coupon; to repay the existing senior secured credit facility, receivable securitization facility and other debt; Chattanooga, Tenn.-based truckload carrier and a diversified provider of truckload, intermodal and logistics services; price talk 9½% to 9¾%.


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