Investment Grade Calendar

On The Horizon

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

J.M. SMUCKER CO.

• Planned long-term public bonds in order to fund acquisition of Big Heart Pet Brands Inc.

• Company plans to assume about $2.6 billion of net debt

• Orrville, Ohio-based Smucker makes fruit spreads, coffee, peanut butter, shortening and oils, ice cream toppings, sweetened condensed milk and other foods products.

• San Francisco-based Big Heart Pet Brands makes pet food and pet snacks. The company changed its name from Del Monte Corp. following the sale of its fruit, vegetable and other consumer foods portfolio in February 2014.

MONDELEZ INTERNATIONAL, INC.

• New debt securities

• Proceeds will be used to finance notes purchased in a tender offer as well as related fees and expenses

• Mondelez, formerly Kraft Foods Inc., is a snack company based in Deerfield, Ill.

PFIZER INC.

• New debt in order to fund acquisition of Hospira Inc.

• Pfizer is a New York-based global biopharmaceutical company. Hospira, a specialty pharmaceutical and medical delivery company, is based in Lake Forest, Ill.

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 company’s 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.

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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