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Published on 6/30/2009 in the Prospect News High Yield Daily.

High Yield Calendar: $1.74 billion and €2.7 billion deals being marketed

JUNE 29 WEEK

CASELLA WASTE SYSTEMS INC.: $205 million senior second-lien notes due 2014 (B2); Banc of America Securities LLC, J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., Calyon Securities (joint), Comerica Securities (co); Rule 144A; non-callable for three years; 101% change-of-control put; to refinance bank debt; Rutland, Vt.-based waste management and recycling company; price talk 11¾% with approximately 3-point discount; pricing Wednesday.

WIND ACQUISITION FINANCE SA €2.7 billion equivalent: $2.1 billion and €1.25 billion senior notes due 2017 (B2/BB-); Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Credit Suisse, Banca IMI (joint global coordinators and lead bookrunners), BNP Paribas Securities Corp., Calyon Securities, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Goldman Sachs & Co., J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., MPS, RBS Securities Inc., UniCredit (joint books); Banca Akros, ING, Mediobanca, Banc of America Securities LLC, Natixis Bleichroeder Inc. (co's); non-callable for four years; to refinance €2 billion PIK loans due 2011 and to fund a dividend to Weather Investments SpA; issuer is a financing unit of Milan, Italy-based Wind Telecomunicazioni SpA; price talk 11¾% coupon at a discount to yield 12¼% to 12½%; to price Wednesday morning, London time.

TRU 2005 RE HOLDING CO. I, LLC (to be renamed Toys 'R' Us Property Co. I, LLC): $950 million senior notes due 2017 (B3/B+); Banc of America Securities LLC, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Goldman Sachs & Co., Wachovia Securities LLC (joint), Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley & Co. Inc. (co's); Rule 144A with registration rights; non-callable for four years; to repay bank debt; subsidiaries of Toys 'R' Us, Inc., a specialty retailer of toys and juvenile products based in Wayne, N.J.; price talk 10¾% to 11%; books close noon ET on Wednesday, pricing thereafter.

REAL MEX RESTAURANTS INC.: $110 million senior secured notes due 2012 (B3/B-); Jefferies & Co.; Rule 144A/Regulation S; non-callable for two years; change-of-control put at 101%; to repay senior secured notes due April 1, 2010 and for general corporate purposes; Cypress, Calif.-based restaurant company; price talk 14% coupon with original issue discount to yield approximately 18%.

COMMERCIAL BARGE LINE CO.: $200 million senior secured notes due 2017; Banc of America Securities LLC, UBS Investment Bank, SunTrust Robinson Humphrey Inc., Wachovia Securities LLC (joint), RBS Securities Inc. (co.); Rule 144A with registration rights; non-callable for four years; 101% change-of-control put; to repay bank debt and for general corporate purposes; based in Jeffersonville, Ind.; price talk expected Wednesday; possibly pricing Wednesday.

ONE COMMUNICATIONS CORP.: $275 million first-priority senior secured notes due 2015 (expected B-); Morgan Stanley & Co. Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.; Rule 144A; non-callable for four years; to repay bank debt; Burlington, Mass.-based privately held regional provider of telecommunications services.

ON THE HORIZON

CDW CORP.: $1.94 billion notes: $890 million senior unsecured cash-pay notes due 2015 (Caa1/CCC+), $300 million senior unsecured PIK toggle notes due 2015 (Caa1/CCC+) and $750 million senior subordinated notes due 2017 (Caa2/CCC+); J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Morgan Stanley & Co. Inc.; to refinance bridge loan related to LBO; Vernon Hills, Ill., provider of technology products and services.

GENERAL MOLY: $540 million to $700 million debt financing including high-yield bonds, leveraged loans and possibly convertibles; Credit Suisse and Barclays, arrangers; to fund the Mt. Hope molybdenum project, located in central Nevada; also $240 million to $400 million of equity; formerly Idaho General Mines, General Moly is a Lakewood, Colo.-based molybdenum mineral development, exploration and mining company.

NORTH AMERICAN ENERGY ALLIANCE: $325 million senior unsecured notes; Barclays Capital Inc.; also $545 million credit facility (BB+); to help back the roughly $1.477 billion acquisition of 1,706 megawatts of generation projects by Industry Funds Management from Consolidated Edison Inc.

RIVERDEEP INTERACTIVE LEARNING USA: $820 million senior subordinated notes; Credit Suisse, Citigroup (joint); proceeds along with $1.87 billion senior bank debt, $750 million mezzanine debt and $1.5 billion equity to fund the acquisition of Houghton Mifflin by Riverdeep from Thomas H. Lee Partners, Bain Capital Partners, LLC and Blackstone Group for $3.4 billion; Riverdeep, based in Dublin, Ireland, is a publisher of interactive products for the consumer and school markets.

TRIDENT RESOURCES: New senior unsecured notes and new revolver in conjunction with IPO led by Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and Jefferies & Co.; to recapitalize the company and repay debt; Calgary, Alta.-based natural gas production company.


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