High Yield Calendar: $605 million deals being marketed

SEPTEMBER 28 WEEK

TOPS HOLDING CORP. and TOPS MARKETS, LLC.: $250 million senior secured notes due 2015; Morgan Stanley & Co. Inc., Bank of America Merrill Lynch; Rule 144A/Regulation S with registration rights; non-callable for three years; proceeds, along with ABL facility and cash on hand, to refinance bank debt and warehouse mortgage agreement, pay related swap agreement termination costs and make a distribution to equity holders; grocery store chain based in Buffalo, N.Y.; price talk 10¼% to 10½% all-in yield, with OID to be determined; books close 10:30 a.m. ET Thursday, pricing thereafter.

VENOCO, INC.: $150 million senior notes due 2017; UBS Investment Bank (left books), BMO Nesbitt Burns, Credit Suisse Securities, RBS Securities Inc. (joint); Rule 144A/Regulation S with registration rights; non-callable for four years; to redeem the existing 8¾% senior notes due 2011; Denver-based oil and gas exploration and development company; roadshow Sept. 30-Oct. 1; pricing Oct. 2.

OCTOBER 5 WEEK

ALON REFINING KROTZ SPRINGS, INC.: $205 million senior secured notes due 2014 (/expected BB/); Jefferies & Co.; Rule 144A with registration rights; non-callable for three years; to refinance existing term loan and for general corporate purposes; owner-operator of Louisiana refinery; roadshow Sept. 30-Oct. 9.

EXPECTED MID-OCTOBER BUSINESS

GCI INC.: $400 million senior notes due 2019 (existing ratings B3/B-); to retire senior credit facility; Longwood, Fla.-based telecommunications services provider; expected mid-October business.

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.

INFORMA GLOBAL MARKETS: High-yield notes (Ba2/BB), size to be determined; JPMorgan; London-based real-time capital markets information services provider; expected early September business, pending market conditions.

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.

WARNER CHILCOTT PLC: $1.4 billion of senior unsecured notes; bridge loan commitments from JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, Barclays Capital, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, Credit Suisse; also $2.75 bank loan; to finance the acquisition of Procter & Gamble Co.'s pharmaceuticals business; Warner Chilcott is a Rockaway, N.J.-based specialty pharmaceutical company; expected September business.

ROADSHOWS

To price Sept. 28 week: TOPS HOLDING CORP. and TOPS MARKETS, LLC. $250 million; Morgan Stanley & Co. Inc., Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Sept. 30-Oct. 1: VENOCO, INC. $150 million; UBS Investment Bank

Sept. 30-Oct. 9: ALON REFINING KROTZ SPRINGS, INC. $205 million; Jefferies & Co.

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