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Published on 10/3/2017 in the Prospect News Investment Grade Daily.

Investment Grade Calendar

On The Horizon

ALTAGAS LTD.:

• Company to price offerings of senior debt, preferred shares and hybrid securities, as well as asset sales.

• A $2 billion tranche of bridge facilities allocated to covering asset sales

• A $4.9 billion bridge financing facility arranged with JPMorgan Chase Bank, Toronto-Dominion Bank and Royal Bank of Canada

• Company to obtain permanent financing through C$400 million private placement of subscription receipts to Omers, Ontario’s pension plan for municipal employees, and C$2.1 billion brought subscription receipts offering launched on Jan. 25

• Proceeds to finance C$8.4 billion acquisition of energy infrastructure company WGL Holdings, Inc., a deal not contingent on financing

• Calgary, Alta.-based North American energy infrastructure company

HYDRO ONE LTD.:

• $2.4 billion of five-, 10- and 30-year notes

• Proceeds to help finance acquisition of Avista Corp.

• Closing expected in second half of 2018

• Toronto-based electric utility

SYNGENTA AG:

• Roadshow beginning Sept. 11

• Multi-tranche benchmark-sized dollar-denominated Rule 144A and Regulation S offering of senior notes with maturities up to 30 years

• BNP Paribas, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, HSBC, MUFG and Santander (arrangers)

• Proceeds to refinance bridge financing for ChemChina’s acquisition of Syngenta and for general corporate purposes

• Basel, Switzerland-based agribusiness company

TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY FOX, INC.:

• Plans about $10 billion of new debt to fund cash offer to acquire Sky plc

• Company with subsidiary 21st Century Fox America, Inc. negotiated bridge credit agreement to borrow up to £12.2 billion, which will be replaced with the longer-dated permanent financing of $10 billion before acquisition closes

• Credit agreement arranged with joint lead arrangers and bookrunners Goldman Sachs & Co., Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and JPMorgan Chase Bank, NA

• Closing expected by end of 2017

• New York-based company operates cable and broadcasting networks and properties

UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORP.:

• $14 billion of new debt to finance cash portion of acquisition of Rockwell Collins, Inc.

• Proceeds along with cash on hand to finance acquisition of Rockwell Collins for $140 per share in cash and United Technologies stock

• Deal includes assumption of $7 billion of Rockwell Collins’ debt

• Transaction expected to close by third quarter of 2018

• Hartford, Conn.-based company provides technology products and services to the building and aerospace industries


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