High Yield Calendar: No deals in the market

On The Horizon

ACURIS FINANCE US, INC. and ACURIS FINANCE SARL, doing business as ION ANALYTICS: $850 million equivalent eight-year senior secured notes (expected ratings B2/B) in tranches of dollar-denominated notes, price talk 6% area (initial talk low-to-mid 6% area), and euro-denominated notes, price talk 4¾% area (initial talk mid-to-high 4% area) tranche sizes to be determined (expected $500 million and $350 million equivalent euro); UBS (left books), BNP Paribas (joint books); Rule 144A and Regulation S for life; notes in both tranches callable after two years at par plus 50% of respective coupons; to refinance debt incurred in the Backstop acquisition, to fund a dividend for repurchase of shares from certain minority shareholders in one or more parent companies, to partially prepay amounts drawn under the credit facility and for general corporate purposes; London-based market analytics and data provider (delayed as of Jan. 28).

MONEYGRAM INTERNATIONAL INC.: $500 million unsecured bridge loan and $800 million senior secured credit facilities, debt commitment from Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank and Barclays; proceeds plus $810 million equity to fund the buyout of MoneyGram, a Dallas-based digital P2P payments company, by Madison Dearborn Partners LLC; disclosed in 8-K filed with the SEC on Feb. 16.

TENGA INC.: $1.496 billion senior secured bridge loan and $2.715 senior unsecured bridge loan; also $4 billion senior secured credit facilities; debt commitment from RBC, BofA, Goldman Sachs, Truist, BNP, Credit Suisse, Jefferies, Mizuho, TD, Barclays, Deutsche Bank, MUFG, Citizens, SMBC; to help fund its acquisition by Standard General LP, expected to close in second half of 2022; Tysons, Va.-based media company; information disclosed in PREM14A filed on March 25 with SEC.

TENNECO: $3 billion high-yield notes: $2 billion senior secured notes and $1 billion senior unsecured notes; also $3 billion senior secured credit facilities; to help fund acquisition of Tenneco by Apollo (enterprise value approximately $7.1 billion), expected to close during second half of 2022, and refinance some existing debt; also $1.65 billion of equity; Lake Forest, Ill.-based designer, manufacturer and marketer of automotive products for original equipment and aftermarket customers; information disclosed in PREM14A filed with SEC on March 15.

TWITTER INC. (X HOLDINGS): $3 billion one-year senior secured bridge loan and $3 billion at SOFR plus 675 bps, 0% floor, 50 bps step-ups every three months up to a specified cap, and $3 billion one-year senior unsecured bridge loan at SOFR plus 1,000 bps, 0% floor, 50 bps step-ups every three months up to a specified cap, expected to be replaced with $3 billion senior secured notes and $3 billion senior unsecured notes; proceeds plus $7 billion credit facilities to help fund acquisition of Twitter by an entity wholly owned by Elon Musk; San Francisco-based online social networking service; details disclosed in April 25 press release.

VIASAT INC.: $1.6 billion senior notes (assumed pricing 5½%), also $700 million term loan; debt commitment from BofA, JPMorgan, Barclays, Credit Suisse; proceeds to support the acquisition of Inmarsat, expected to close during second half of 2022; Carlsbad, Calif.-based Viasat and London-based Inmarsat are satellite telecommunications companies.

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