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On The Horizon
ACTAVIS PLC
New debt to help fund the acquisition of Allergan, Inc.
Actavis is a pharmaceutical company with headquarters in Dublin
Irvine, Calif.-based Allergan is a multi-specialty health care company
CORPORATE CAPITAL TRUST INC.
Possible capital markets transaction following series of investor meetings beginning Jan. 12
Barclays, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, BofA Merrill Lynch
Orlando-based business development company
ENDURANCE SPECIALTY HOLDINGS LTD.
Planned debt offering to help fund the proposed acquisition of Aspen Insurance Holdings Ltd.
Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC
Pembroke, Bermuda-based property and casualty insurance and reinsurance provider
FIDELITY NATIONAL FINANCIAL INC.
$1.4 billion of debt, including longer-term bonds
To fund majority of cash portion of acquisition of majority of common shares of Lender Processing Services, Inc.
Jacksonville, Fla.-based provider of title service, mortgage and diversified services
MERCK & CO. INC.
$9.5 billion of short- and long-term debt to help finance acquisition of Cubist Pharmaceuticals
Cubist is a Lexington, Mass.-based biopharmaceutical company. The company has its international headquarters in Zurich. Merck is a health-care company is based in Kenilworth, N.J.
RENAISSANCERE HOLDINGS LTD.
An incremental $300 million of senior notes to help fund the $1.9 billion acquisition of Platinum Underwriters Holdings, Ltd.
Property catastrophe reinsurer based in Pembroke, Bermuda
REYNOLDS AMERICAN INC.
New debt of $9 billion, along with excess cash of $500 million, divestiture net proceeds of $4.4 billion, stock issued to Lorillard of $6.6 billion and proceeds from the companys largest shareholder BAT of $4.7 billion; to finance $27.4 billion acquisition of Lorillard, Inc.
Expected in the first half of 2015
Lorillard is a Greensboro, N.C.-based cigarette maker. Reynolds American is a Winston-Salem, N.C.-based manufacturer and seller of cigarettes and other tobacco products.
SELECT INCOME REIT
New notes to help fund acquisition of Cole Corporate Income Trust for about $3 billion
Select Income owns properties that are primarily net leased to single tenants and is based in Newton, Mass.
THIRD POINT RE (USA) INC.
Offering of senior notes
Proceeds will be used to partially finance the capitalization of wholly owned subsidiary Third Point Reinsurance (USA) Ltd.
Bermuda-based provider of specialty property and casualty reinsurance products
WISCONSIN ENERGY CORP.
$1.5 billion of debt
To fund the acquisition of Integrys Energy Group Inc.
Gas and electric company based in Milwaukee
ZIMMER HOLDINGS INC.
Proposed offering of senior notes
Proceeds will be used to help fund the acquisition of Biomet, Inc.
Warsaw, Ind.-based developer and marketer of reconstructive and spinal implants, trauma and related orthopedic surgical products.
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