High Yield Calendar: $500 million and €500 million deals being marketed

April 23 Week

TELE COLUMBUS AG: €500 million senior secured notes due 2025; BofA Merrill Lynch (global coordinator), Deutsche Bank (joint bookrunner); Rule 144A and Regulation S; non-callable for three years; to pay down bank debt; Berlin, Germany-based cable network operator; roadshow through April 26.

April 30 Week

NEPTUNE ENERGY GROUP MIDCO LTD. and NEPTUNE ENERGY BONDCO PLC: $500 million senior notes due 2025 (B2); JPMorgan; non-callable for three years; London-based oil and gas exploration and production company; initial price talk high 6% to 7% area; roadshow April 23-May 1;

High Yield Bridge

WANDA MERGER CORP., to be merged into NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC $2.75 billion three-part one-year senior unsecured bridge loan: $1 billion Libor plus 500 bps, 1% Libor floor, 50 bps fee, to be taken out by five-year senior notes, Also $1 billion Libor plus 550 bps, 1% Libor floor, 50 bps fee, to be taken out with eight-year senior notes, Also $750 million Libor plus 575 bps, 1% Libor floor, 50 bps fee, announcements of bridge caps pending; Credit Suisse (left books), Jefferies, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, Goldman Sachs, KKR, Morgan Stanley (joint books); to finance the merger between WMIH Corp. and Nationstar and refinance Nationstar existing debt; WMIH is a Seattle-based reinsurance business; Nationstar is a Dallas-based non-bank mortgage servicer; lender call April 19; commitments due April 27.

On The Horizon

CENTENE CORP.: $1.6 billion bonds; Barclays to be involved; $2.3 billion of new equity, including share consideration, to fund its planned $3.75 billion acquisition of Fidelis Care; Centene is a St. Louis-based managed care and specialty health care services provider; originally expected during first quarter of 2018.

COMSTOCK RESOURCES INC.: New senior notes and a new revolver; to refinance its senior secured toggle notes due 2020, 7¾% convertible secured PIK notes due 2019 and 9½% convertible secured PIK notes due 2020, associated with Arkoma investment in Comstock and related acquisitions, expected to become effective April 1; Frisco, Texas-based oil and gas acquisitions, exploration and development company.

ENERGIZER HOLDINGS INC.: Up to $720 million senior notes backed by one-year bridge at Libor plus 500 bps with 1% Libor floor, Barclays left lead arranger, JPMorgan joint arranger; also $2.04 billion credit facilities; to fund its acquisition of Spectrum Brands’ Global Battery and Portable Lighting Business, expected to close before the end of 2018; St. Louis-based manufacturer of primary batteries and portable lighting products.

PENN NATIONAL GAMING INC.: $840 million senior unsecured bridge loan, also $1.14 billion in incremental senior secured term loans; debt commitment from Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs Bank USA, Fifth Third Bank, U.S. Bank, Wells Fargo Securities LLC, Citizens Bank, SunTrust Robinson Humphrey Inc. and TD Securities (USA) LLC; to finance the acquisition of Pinnacle Entertainment Inc., expected to close in the second half of 2018; Penn National is a Wyomissing, Pa.-based owner and manager of gaming and racing facilities and video gaming terminal operations; Pinnacle is a Las Vegas-based owner and operator of gaming entertainment properties.

SINCLAIR BROADCAST GROUP INC.: Commitment for $5.6 billion in debt financing, including a $785 million bridge loan, to help fund acquisition of Tribune Media Co.; expected 50:50 mix of fixed- and floating-rate debt; JPMorgan Chase Bank, RBC and Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. leads; Hunt Valley, Md.-based television broadcasting company.

SRS DISTRIBUTION INC.: $380 million senior notes and $1.7 billion bank loans; BofA Merrill Lynch, Barclays; to help fund buyout by Leonard Green & Partners LP from Berkshire Partners; McKinney, Texas-based roofing products distributor; expected late April-early May business.

SS&C TECHNOLOGIES HOLDINGS INC.: $1.25 billion bridge loan to be taken out with high-yield bonds and/or IPO of common shares, Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley; proceeds, along with about $7.15 billion of bank debt, to help fund its acquisition of DST Systems Inc. and to refinance existing debt; SS&C is a Windsor, Conn.-based provider of financial services software and software-enabled services; targeted to close in third quarter of 2018; announced in Jan. 11 press release.

STARS GROUP INC.: $1.4 billion senior notes and $5.5 billion credit facilities; debt commitment from Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Macquarie and Morgan Stanley; fund cash portion of the Sky Betting & Gaming acquisition, refinance Stars’ existing first-lien term loan and repay Sky Betting’s outstanding debt; Stars is a Toronto-based provider of technology-based products and services in the gaming and interactive entertainment industries; Sky Betting is an online betting and gaming company; debt announced on April 23 conference call.

TWINSET SPA: €170 million five-year senior secured floating-rate notes; private; to redeem the €150 million senior Euribor plus 587.5 bps secured floating rate notes due 2019, partially repay a shareholder loan and cancel the existing hedging arrangement; Capri, Italy-based supplier of luxury women's apparel and accessories.

WMIH CORP.: $2.75 billion senior notes backed by bridge loans; Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Jefferies LLC, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and HSBC Securities (USA) Inc.; to help fund the acquisition of Nationstar Mortgage Holdings Inc., expected to close in the second half of 2018, and refinance around $1.9 billion of Nationstar’s existing senior unsecured notes; WMIH is a Seattle-based reinsurance business; announced in Feb. 14 8-K.

Roadshows

April 23-May 1: NEPTUNE ENERGY $500 million; JPMorgan.

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