Bank Loan Calendar

Total amount of deals being marketed: $13.5505 billion

SEPTEMBER:

DOBSON COMMUNICATIONS CORP.: Bank meeting Sept. 16; $700 million senior credit facility; Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns joint lead arrangers and book managers, Morgan Stanley underwriter; $550 million 61/2-year term B; $150 million six-year revolver; refinance existing debt; Oklahoma City provider of rural and suburban wireless communications services.

DRS TECHNOLOGIES INC.: Bank meeting end of Sept. 15 week (possibly Sept. 18); $512.5 million credit facility; Bear Stearns and Wachovia; $362.5 million term B; $150 million revolver; help fund acquisition of Integrated Defense Technologies Inc.; Parsippany, N.J. supplier of defense electronic products and systems

MAGELLAN HEALTH SERVICES INC.: Bank meeting Sept. 16; $230 million five-year exit financing facility; Deutsche Bank; $100 million term loan B; $50 million revolver; $80 million letter of credit facility; term loans will repay existing bank debt; expected emergence from chapter 11 in September; Columbia, Md. managed behavioral healthcare company.

PINNACLE FOODS CORP.: $225 million credit facility; JPMorgan and Deutsche; $170 million term loan B; $55 million pro rata; acquisition of Pinnacle by JPMorgan Partners, in partnership with C. Dean Metropoulos, from Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst Inc. for $485 million; expected close in fourth quarter 2003; Cherry Hill, N.J. manufacturer and marketer of branded food products.

WASHINGTON GROUP INTERNATIONAL INC.: Bank meeting Sept. 10; $350 million credit facility; Credit Suisse First Boston lead arranger; $150 million four-year revolver at Libor plus 325 bps, 100 bps commitment fee; $200 million four-year revolver B at Libor plus 325 bps, 325 bps commitment fee; refinance existing debt; Boise, Ida. provider of engineering, construction and construction management services, facilities management, environmental remediation and mining services.

OCTOBER:

PRECISION CASTPARTS CORP.: Bank meeting early October; approximately $850 million credit facility including $200 million incremental term loan; not including $300 million bridge facility, to be taken out by a senior notes offering; Bank of America and Goldman Sachs; help fund the acquisition of SPS Technologies Inc. and replacing existing credit facility with new five-year revolver and term loan; Portland, Ore. manufacturer of complex metal components and products.

UPCOMING CLOSINGS

ALDERWOODS GROUP INC.: $325 million credit facility (B1/BB-) consisting of a $50 million revolver and $275 million term loan B, both at Libor plus 350 basis points; Bank of America; retire notes; Cincinnati-based funeral home operator.

ALLIANCE GAMING CORP.: $375 million credit facility (B1/BB-); Bank of America and CIBC; $275 million term B at Libor plus 275 bps; $100 million revolver at Libor plus 250 bps; refinance existing debt; Las Vegas gaming company.

AMERICAN SEAFOODS GROUP LLC: $300 million credit facility; CIBC; $80 million five-year revolver at Libor plus 300 bps; $220 million seven-year term B split between floating rate and fixed rate tranches, floating rate at Libor plus 300 bps; secured by intercompany debt, capital stock and certain assets; fund tender for 10 1/8% notes; Seattle producer of seafood products.

AMI SEMICONDUCTOR: $200 million credit facility; Credit Suisse First Boston administrative agent and joint lead arranger, Goldman Sachs syndication agent and joint lead arranger, Lehman Brothers documentation agent; $75 million three-year revolver at Libor plus 300 bps, 50 bps commitment fee; $125 million five-year term B at Libor plus 275 bps; part of IPO; term loan to repay existing debt; Pocatello, Ida.-based designer and manufacturer of application-specific integrated circuits.

AMSTED INDUSTRIES INC.: $525 million credit facility (Ba3/BB-); Citigroup and Bank of America; $400 million eight-year term B at Libor plus 400 bps; $125 million revolver talked at Libor plus 350 bps; refinancing; Chicago diversified manufacturer of industrial components.

CINRAM INTERNATIONAL INC.: $1.2 billion credit facility (Ba3/BB); Citigroup and Merrill Lynch joint lead arrangers; Citigroup administrative agent; Merrill syndication agent; $900 million six-year term B at Libor plus 325 bps; $150 million term A at Libor plus 300 bps; $150 million revolver at Libor plus 300 bps; fund acquisition of AOL Time Warner Inc.'s DVD and CD manufacturing and distribution businesses; Toronto-based provider of pre-recorded multimedia products and logistic services.

DAY INTERNATIONAL GROUP INC.: $187 million senior secured credit facility (B1/B); Lehman and Bank One co-lead arrangers, National City documentation agent; $30 million six-year term A talked at Libor plus 350 bps; $20 million five-year revolver talked at Libor plus 350 bps; $105 million six-year term B talked at Libor plus 400 bps; $32 million five-year delayed draw term loan talked at Libor plus 400 bps; secured by all tangible and intangible assets; repurchase company's $100 million 11 1/8% senior unsecured notes due 2005, to repay debt under existing credit facility and to fund a potential acquisition; Dayton, Ohio marketer of products for printing, textile manufacturing and corrugated paper converting.

DEAN FOODS CO.: $2.75 billion credit facility (Ba1/BB+); Wachovia Securities and Bank One; $1 billion revolver due 2007 at Libor plus 175 bps; $1 billion term A due 2007 at Libor plus 175 bps; $750 million term B due 2008 at Libor plus 200 bps; all tranches pricing being lowered from Libor plus 225 bps; call protection at par ½ for nine months; amending and restating; Houston processor and distributor of milk and other dairy products.

DEX MEDIA WEST LLC: $2.26 billion credit facility (Ba3/BB-/BB-); JPMorgan, Bank of America, Deutsche Bank, Wachovia Securities and Lehman Brothers; $1.2 billion seven-year term B at Libor plus 275 bps; $100 million six-year revolver at Libor plus 275 bps; $960 million six-year term loan A at Libor plus 275 bps; help fund LBO by The Carlyle Group and Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe from Qwest Communications Inc.; yellow pages directories business.

HANGER ORTHOPEDICS GROUP INC.: $150 million senior secured term loan B due 2009 (B1/B+) talked at Libor plus 325 to 350 bps; Lehman and GE; fund cash tender offer for $150 million outstanding 11¼% senior subordinated notes due 2009; Bethesda, Md. provider of orthotic and prosthetic patient-care services.

INFRASOURCE INC.: $180 million credit facility; Barclays Capital; $140 million term B at Libor plus 400 bps; $40 million pro rata; help fund leveraged buyout of InfraSource by GFI Energy Ventures LLC and Oaktree Capital Management LLC from Exelon Corp.; Aston, Pa. infrastructure services provider.

THE MEOW MIX CO.: $231 million senior secured credit facility; UBS bookrunner and lead arranger, CIBC syndication agent and co-arranger; $30 million revolver; $176 million first-lien term loan at Libor plus 350 bps; $25 million second lien term loan at Libor plus 650 bps; help fund acquisition of Meow Mix by The Cypress Group LLC from J.W. Childs; Secaucus, N.J. dry cat food company.

PER-SE TECHNOLOGIES INC.: $175 million credit facility (B2/B+); Bank of America and Wachovia joint lead arrangers; $50 million three-year revolver at Libor plus 350 bps; $125 million five-year term B at Libor plus 400 bps; refinance 9½% senior notes; Atlanta provider of business services to healthcare providers.

QUINTILES TRANSNATIONAL CORP./PHARMA SERVICES HOLDINGS INC.: $390 million credit facility (B1/BB-); Citigroup; $75 million four-year revolver at Libor plus 325 bps; $315 million five-year term B at Libor plus 325 bps; help fund LBO; Durham, N.C. provider of product development and commercial development solutions to pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries.

SEMINIS INC.: $250 million credit facility; Citigroup lead arranger; $60 million revolver, $190 million term loan; to help fund acquisition by Savia, SA de CV; Oxnard, Calif.-based vegetable and fruit seed company.

SEMINOLE GROUP LP: $350 million senior secured credit facility; Fleet and BNP Paribas joint lead arrangers, Fleet administrative agent, BNP syndication agent; $250 million three-year working capital revolver at Libor plus 200 bps; $100 million three-year revolver at Libor plus 350 bps; Tulsa, Okla. provider of services to crude oil and refined products industry.

SUNRISE SENIOR LIVING INC.: $200 million three-year revolving corporate credit facility; expected to close in the third quarter; general corporate purposes, including joint venture investments, acquisitions and refinancing existing debt; Mclean, Va. provider of senior living services.

TREDEGAR CORP.: $250 million credit facility; Wachovia; $175 million five-year revolver; $75 million five-year term loan A; both at Libor plus 125 bps; refinance; Richmond, Va. manufacturer of plastic films and aluminum extrusions.

UNIFRAX CORP.: $135 million credit facility (B1/B+); Wachovia; $100 million six-year term B at Libor plus 375 bps; $35 million five-year revolver at Libor plus 375 bps; help fund leveraged buyout by American Securities Partners LP; Niagara Falls, N.Y. producer of high temperature insulation products.

WABASH NATIONAL CORP.: $250 million credit facility consisting of a three-year asset based revolver and term loan; Fleet Capital; replace existing indebtedness; closing expected during the third quarter; Lafayette, Ind. truck trailer and intermodal equipment company.

ON THE HORIZON:

LOEWS CINEPLEX THEATERS, INC.: Seven-year term loan and five-year revolver; Credit Suisse First Boston and Merrill Lynch; term loan proceeds to help repay Loews' existing credit facility and facility of its Loeks-Star Theatres subsidiary and for fees and expenses, revolver for general corporate purposes; coming in conjunction with $300 million IPO and notes offering; New York, N.Y. movie theater operator.

NRG ENERGY INC.: $2.3 billion exit financing credit facility; Credit Suisse First Boston and Lehman Brothers joint lead arrangers; Minneapolis energy company.

NTELOS INC.: $224.5 million exit financing facility; Wachovia; $50 million term A due July 25, 2007 at Libor plus 325 bps; $99.5 million term B due July 25, 2008 at Libor plus 400 bps; $75 million term C due July 25, 2008 at Libor plus 275 bps; $36 million revolver due July 25, 2007 at Libor plus 325 bps; Waynesboro, Va. digital wireless PCS provider.

ONDEO NALCO: Approximately $3.2 billion of senior and subordinated debt financing; help fund acquisition by The Blackstone Group, Apollo Management, LP and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners from Suez SA; closing expected in fourth quarter of 2003; Naperville, Ill. provider of water treatment and process chemicals and services.

QUALITY DISTRIBUTION INC.: $215 million credit facility; $140 million delayed draw term loan; $75 million revolver; in conjunction with IPO led by Credit Suisse First Boston, Bear Stearns & Co. Inc. and Deutsche Bank Securities; revolver for working capital and general company purposes, term loan to repay existing debt; secured by first priority perfected lien on substantially all of the company's properties and assets; Tampa, Fla. operator of a bulk tank truck network.

FULL DOCUMENTATION FOR RECENT DEALS AND AMENDMENTS:

ALLIED HOLDINGS, INC.: Amended and restated credit facility; via Ableco Finance LLC as collateral agent and Wells Fargo Foothill, Inc. as administrative agent; dated Sept. 4.

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AMCAST INDUSTRIAL CORP.: Amendment to credit facility, extending maturity; via collateral agent KeyBank NA; dated Aug. 28.

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IPC ACQUISITION CORP.: Amended and restated $80 million credit facility; via General Electric Capital Corp. as administrative agent, Goldman Sachs Credit Partners LP as sole bookrunner and sole lead arranger and CIT Lending Services Corp. as documentation agent; dated Aug. 29.

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JARDEN CORP.: Amended and restated credit facility including new $150 million term loan B; via Bank of America, NA as administrative agent, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce as syndication agent National City Bank of Indiana and Fleet National Bank as documentation agents; dated Sept. 2.

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