Bank Loan Calendar: $1.328 billion deals being marketed

UPCOMING CLOSINGS

GRANDE COMMUNICATIONS: $128 million credit facility; Societe Generale and SunTrust; $25 million five-year revolver at Libor plus 675 bps, 3% Libor floor, OID 97; $103 million six-year term loan at Libor plus 675 bps, 3% Libor floor, OID 97; help fund potential buyout by ABRY Partners; San Marcos, Texas, provider of high-speed internet, local and long-distance telephone and digital cable services.

QUEBECOR WORLD INC.: $675 million three-year exit facility (Ba3); Credit Suisse (left on term loan), GE Capital (left on revolver) and Wachovia; $350 million revolver talked at Libor plus 450 bps, unused fee range from 75 bps to 100 bps, 3% Libor floor; $325 million term loan talked at Libor plus 600 bps, 3% Libor floor, OID 88; Montreal-based printing and marketing company.

RITE AID CORP.: $525 million term loan due 2015 (B3/B+) at Libor plus 650 bps, 3% Libor floor, OID 96, call protection 105, 103, 102; Citigroup, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and GE Capital, with Citi left lead; refinance term loan tranche 1 due 2010 and repay and cancel a portion of the commitments outstanding under its revolver; Camp Hill, Pa., drugstore chain.

ON THE HORIZON

AMERICAN CAMPUS COMMUNITIES INC.: $200 million three-year senior secured revolver; KeyBank; replace existing revolver; Austin, Texas, real estate investment trust focused on student housing properties.

BLUE SPARKLE LP: $1.7 billion credit facility; Barclays; $850 million six-year senior secured term loan at Libor plus 400 bps, $850 million seven-year senior unsecured term loan at Libor plus 550 bps; help fund acquisition of Barclays' iShares business by CVC Capital Partners Group Sicav-FIS SA.

IOWA TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES INC.: $75 million term loan due November 2011 at Libor plus 200 bps; Rural Telephone Finance Cooperative; help fund the acquisition of Sherburne Tele Systems Inc.; Newton, Iowa, telecommunications service provider.

TRIDENT RESOURCES CORP.: New revolver; in connection with common stock IPO to repay existing debt; Calgary, Alta., natural gas production company.

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