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Published on 2/4/2015 in the Prospect News High Yield Daily.

Blackboard proposes $75 million tap of 7¾% senior notes due 2019

By Paul A. Harris

Portland, Ore., Feb. 4 – Blackboard Inc. is in the market with a $75 million add-on to its 7¾% senior notes Nov. 15, 2019 (Caa1/CCC+) according to a market source.

The deal is set to price Wednesday or Thursday.

BofA Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC are the lead managers.

The notes become callable on Nov. 15, 2015 at 105.813.

The Washington, D.C.-based provider of enterprise software applications and related services to the education industry plans to use the proceeds to help fund the acquisition of educational website Schoolwires.

Blackboard priced the original $365 million issue at par in October 2013.


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