Bank Loan Calendar: $12.514 billion deals being marketed

January Bank Meetings

BLUE COAT SYSTEMS INC.: Bank meeting expected late January; $465 million senior secured credit facility; Jefferies; $50 million revolver; $415 million term loan; help fund buyout by Thoma Bravo LLC and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan; Sunnyvale, Calif., provider of web security and WAN optimization services.

CARDONE INDUSTRIES: Bank meeting Jan. 5; $300 million credit facility; RBC, BMO and Mizuho; $50 million revolver; $250 million term loan; help fund buyout of the company's North American operations by TPG Capital LP; Philadelphia-based automotive remanufacturing company.

ENCOMPASS DIGITAL MEDIA INC.: New credit facility; Macquarie; help fund buyout by Court Square Capital Partners from Wasserstein & Co. LP; Los Angeles-based digital media services provider.

MORTON'S RESTAURANT GROUP INC.: Bank meeting expected mid-January; new credit facility; Jefferies; help fund buyout by Tilman J. Fertitta's wholly owned company Fertitta Morton's Restaurants Inc.; Chicago-based operator of company-owned upscale steakhouses.

PRESTIGE BRANDS HOLDINGS INC.: New credit facility; Citigroup and Morgan Stanley; help fund acquisition of 17 over-the-counter GlaxoSmithKline plc brands and refinance existing debt; Irvington, N.Y., marketer of branded consumer products in the over-the-counter health care and household cleaning industries.

STERLING INFOSYSTEMS INC.: Bank meeting targeted for Jan. 5; $180 million credit facility; GE Capital and RBS Citizens; $20 million revolver; $160 million term loan; refinance existing debt and fund an acquisition; New York-based background screening company.

TAMINCO GROUP HOLDINGS: $500 million senior secured credit facility; Citigroup, Credit Suisse, UBS Securities LLC and Nomura; $150 million revolver; $350 million term loan; help fund buyout by Apollo Global Management LLC from CVC Capital Partners; Belgium-based producer of alkylamines and their derivatives.

Upcoming Closings

99 CENTS ONLY STORES: $675 million credit facility; RBC, BMO and Deutsche Bank; $150 million five-year ABL revolver; $525 million covenant-light seven-year term loan (B2/B) at Libor plus 550 basis points, 1.5% Libor floor, OID 98, 102, 101 soft call; help fund buyout by Ares Management LLC and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board; City of Commerce, Calif., operator of extreme value retail stores.

AFFYMETRIX INC.: $190 million five-year senior secured credit facility; GE Capital, Silicon Valley Bank and CIT; $170 million term A talked at Libor plus 600 bps, 1.5% Libor floor, OID 98; $20 million revolver talked at Libor plus 600 bps, 1.5% Libor floor, OID 98; help fund purchase of eBioscience Holding Co. Inc. and for general corporate purposes; Santa Clara, Calif., provider of technology used by pharmaceutical, diagnostic and biotechnology companies and research institutes.

CAPITAL SAFETY: $470 million senior secured credit facility (Ba3/B); UBS, Morgan Stanley, Mizuho and KKR Capital; $45 million five-year revolver at Libor plus 500 bps, OID 98; $425 million seven-year covenant-light term B at Libor plus 500 bps, 1.25% Libor floor, OID 98, 101 soft call; help fund buyout by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. LP from Arle Capital Partners; Red Wing, Minn., provider of fall protection equipment.

CORRECTIONS CORP. OF AMERICA: $750 million revolver talked at Libor plus 150 bps; Wells Fargo, Bank of America, JPMorgan and SunTrust; refinance existing debt and for general corporate purposes; Nashville, Tenn., owner and operator of partnership correction and detention facilities.

ENDURANCE INTERNATIONAL GROUP: $400 million credit facility (B1/B); Credit Suisse; $50 million five-year revolver at Libor plus 625 bps, 1.5% Libor floor; $350 million six-year term B at Libor plus 625 bps, 1.5% Libor floor, OID 98, 101 soft call; help fund buyout by Warburg Pincus and GS Capital Partners from Accel-KKR; Burlington, Mass., provider of web hosting and online services.

HOFFMASTER GROUP INC.: $334 million credit facility; GE Capital, Jefferies and Macquarie; $35 million five-year revolver (B1/B); $235 million six-year first-lien term loan (B1/B) at Libor plus 550 bps, 1.5% Libor floor, OID 98; $64 million seven-year second-lien term loan (Caa1/CCC+) at Libor plus 950 bps, 1.5% Libor floor, OID 98, call protection 103, 102, 101; help fund buyout by Metalmark Capital from Kohlberg & Co.; Oshkosh, Wis., producer of specialty disposable tabletop products.

KRONOS INC.: Expected close Dec. 28; $370 million incremental first-lien term B (B1/B) due December 2018 talked at Libor plus 500 bps, 1.25% Libor floor, OID 98, 101 soft call; JPMorgan, Credit Suisse, Wells Fargo, Jefferies and Deutsche Bank; fund a dividend; also amending and extending existing credit facility; Chelmsford, Mass., provider of workforce management software.

LIQUI-BOX: Expected close Dec. 26 week; $105 million credit facility; BNP Paribas and BMO; $20 million five-year revolver at Libor plus 525 bps, 1.5% Libor floor, OID 981/2; $85 million six-year term B at Libor plus 525 bps, 1.5% Libor floor, OID 981/2; help fund buyout by the Sterling Group from DuPont; manufacturer of bag and box flexible packaging for the beverage, dairy and foodservice markets.

LORD & TAYLOR: Expected close Jan. 9; $450 million term loan (Ba3/BB) at Libor plus 450 bps, 1.25% Libor floor, OID 99, 101 soft call; Credit Suisse; refinance CMBS; New York-based upscale, specialty-retail department store chain.

MILK SPECIALTIES GLOBAL: $220 million credit facility; RBC; $35 million revolver (B2/B+); $125 million first-lien term loan (B2/B+) at Libor plus 700 bps, 1.5% Libor floor, OID 97; $60 million second-lien term loan (CCC+) at Libor plus 1,300 bps, 1.5% floor, OID 96, non-call one, 102, 101; help fund buyout by HM Capital from Stonehenge Partners Inc.; Carpentersville, Ill., manufacturer of nutrition products.

MOSAID TECHNOLOGIES INC.: $155 million senior secured credit facility (Ba3/BB-); RBC; $5 million revolver at Libor plus 700 bps, 1.5% Libor floor, OID 971/2; $150 million term loan at Libor plus 700 bps, 1.5% Libor floor, OID 971/2; help fund buyout by Sterling Partners; Ottawa, Ont., intellectual property company.

NPC INTERNATIONAL INC.: $475 million credit facility (Ba3/B); Barclays and Goldman Sachs; $375 million term loan at Libor plus 525 bps, 1.5% Libor floor, OID 98, 101 soft call; $100 million revolver at Libor plus 525 bps; help fund buyout by Olympus Partners; Overland Park, Kan., Pizza Hut franchisee.

NUVEEN INVESTMENTS: $280 million add-on term loan (B) due May 13, 2017 at Libor plus 600 bps, 1.25% Libor floor, OID 98; Deutsche Bank, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, UBS and Wells Fargo; fund acquisition of a 60% stake in Gresham Investment Management LLC; Chicago-based provider of investment services.

OCWEN FINANCIAL CORP.: Expected close Feb. 1; $200 million incremental senior secured term loan due Sept. 1, 2016 at Libor plus 550 bps, 1.5% Libor floor, OID 981/2; Barclays; for general corporate purposes, including financing for acquisitions of Saxon Capital Holdings LLC from Morgan Stanley Mortgage Capital Holdings LLC and a mortgage servicing portfolio from J.P. Morgan; Atlanta-based provider of residential and commercial loan servicing, special servicing and asset-management services.

PHOENIX SERVICES LLC: $245 million credit facility (Ba3/BB-); BNP Paribas; $30 million five-year revolver talked at Libor plus 600 bps, 1.5% Libor floor, OID 98; $60 million five-year euro equivalent term loan talked at Euribor plus 550 bps, OID 98; $140 million six-year term loan talked at Libor plus 600 bps, 1.5% Libor floor, OID 98; $15 million six-year delayed-draw term loan available for three months talked at Libor plus 600 bps, 1.5% Libor floor, OID 98; help fund acquisition of Gagneraud Industries and refinance existing debt; Kennett Square, Pa., provider of steel mill services.

SAMSON INVESTMENT CO.: $2.25 billion revolver talked at Libor plus 175 bps, 37.5 bps unused fee; JPMorgan, Wells Fargo, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays, BMO, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, RBC and Mizuho; help fund buyout by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. LP, Natural Gas Partners, Crestview Partners and Itochu Corp.; Tulsa, Okla., exploration and production company.

SOPHIA LP (SUNGARD HIGHER EDUCATION/DATATEL INC.): $1.2 billion credit facility (B1/B+); Bank of America, Barclays, Citigroup, Credit Suisse and JPMorgan; $1.075 billion 61/2-year term B at Libor plus 500 bps, 1.25% Libor floor, OID 981/2, 101 soft call; $125 million revolver at Libor plus 475 bps; help fund buyout of SunGard Higher Education by Hellman & Friedman LLC and merger with Datatel Inc.; provider of software, technology products and services to the higher education community.

TENSAR INTERNATIONAL CORP. INC.: $300 million credit facility; Barclays; $25 million four-year ABL revolver grid-based pricing ranging from Libor plus 250 bps to 300 bps, 50 bps unused fee; $200 million five-year first-lien term B (B1/B) talked at Libor plus 775 bps, 1.75% Libor floor, OID 96, 101 call protection; $75 million 51/2-year second-lien term C (Caa1/CCC+) talked at Libor plus 1,200 bps, 1.75% floor, OID 96, non-call one, 102, 101; refinance existing capital structure; Atlanta-based provider of specialty products and engineering services.

VALEANT PHARMACEUTICALS INTERNATIONAL INC.: $500 million incremental term A due April 2016 at Libor plus 275 bps; Goldman Sachs, Bank of America and JPMorgan; help fund acquisition of iNova; Mississauga, Ont., specialty pharmaceutical company.

VERIFONE SYSTEMS INC.: $1.5 billion senior secured credit facility (Ba3/BB); JPMorgan, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Barclays and RBC; $350 million five-year revolver at Libor plus 275 bps; $918 million five-year term A at Libor plus 275 bps; $231 million seven-year term B at Libor plus 325, step to Libor plus 300 bps at net leverage of 2.25x, 1% Libor floor, OID 991/2; 101 soft call; help fund purchase of Point from Nordic Capital and refinance existing debt; San Jose, Calif., secure electronic payment services company.

On The Horizon

ACCO BRANDS CORP.: New debt financing; help fund merger with MeadWestvaco Corp.'s Consumer & Office Products business and refinance existing debt; Lincolnshire, Ill., office supply manufacturer.

AMERICAN DENTAL PARTNERS INC.: $256 million senior secured credit facility; KeyBanc, CIT and NXT; $36 million revolver; $220 million term loan; help fund buyout by JLL Partners Inc.; Wakefield, Mass., business partner to dental group practices.

BI-LO LLC: $700 million senior secured asset-based revolver; Citigroup and Deutsche Bank; help fund acquisition of Winn-Dixie Stores Inc.; Greenville, S.C., operator of supermarkets.

CABOT MICROELECTRONICS CORP.: $275 million credit facility; $175 million term loan; $100 million revolver; help fund special cash dividend to shareholders; Aurora, Ill., supplier of chemical mechanical planarization consumables to the semiconductor industry.

CATALENT PHARMA SOLUTIONS INC.: New term loan; help fund acquisition of Aptuit LLC's clinical trial supplies business; Somerset, N.J., provider of advanced technologies, and development, manufacturing, and packaging services for pharmaceutical, biotechnology and consumer health care companies.

CONVERGEX HOLDINGS LLC: New credit facility; Bank of America, Barclays, Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley and Citigroup; term loan; revolver; help fund buyout by CVC Capital Partners from GTCR; New York-based technology company providing mission-critical proprietary software products and technology-enabled services to asset managers and financial intermediaries.

COSTAR GROUP INC.: $465 million credit facility; JPMorgan; $415 million seven-year term loan expected at Libor plus 350 bps, 1.25% Libor floor; $50 million five-year revolver expected at Libor plus 300 bps; help fund acquisition of LoopNet Inc.; Washington, D.C.-based commercial real estate information company.

CROWN CASTLE INTERNATIONAL CORP.: New debt financing; help fund acquisition of NextG Networks Inc. from a group of investors led by Madison Dearborn Partners; Houston-based owner, operator and leaser of towers and other infrastructure for wireless communications.

NEW ENTERPRISE STONE & LIME CO. INC.: New credit facility; refinance existing bank debt; New Enterprise, Pa., construction materials supplier and heavy/highway construction contractor.

PLAINS OFFSHORE OPERATIONS INC.: $300 million revolver at Libor plus 150 bps to 250 bps based on utilization, 37.5 bps to 50 bps unused fee; in connection with purchase by EIG Global Energy Partners of 20% equity stake from Plains Exploration & Production Co.; holder of an oil-focused Gulf of Mexico portfolio.

ROUNDY'S INC.: New senior credit facility; revolver; maybe term loans; in connection with IPO; refinance existing bank debt; Milwaukee, Wis., supermarket chain.

ROUSE PROPERTIES INC.: $483.5 million three-year senior secured credit facility; Wells Fargo, RBC and U.S. Bank; $50 million revolver expected at Libor plus 500 bps, 1% Libor floor; $433.5 million term loan expected at Libor plus 500 bps, 1% Libor floor; refinance debt with spin-off from General Growth Properties Inc.; New York-based regional mall owner.

SONY/ATV MUSIC PUBLISHING: $1.125 billion senior secured credit facility; UBS; $75 million revolver; $1.05 billion term loan; help fund purchase of EMI Music Publishing by Sony Corp. of America, the Estate of Michael Jackson, Mubadala Development Co. PJSC, Jynwel Capital Ltd., GSO Capital Partners LP and David Geffen from Citigroup Inc.; New York-based owner and administrator of copyrights by artists.

SYNOPSYS INC.: New debt financing; help fund purchase of Magma Design Automation Inc.; Mountain View, Calif., provider of software and IP used in the design, verification and manufacture of electronic components and systems.

TRONOX INC.: $550 million of new financing; Goldman Sachs; refinance term loan in connection with acquisition of Exxaro Resources Ltd.'s mineral sands operations; Oklahoma City-based producer and marketer of titanium dioxide pigment.

WCA WASTE CORP.: New credit facility; refinance debt in connection with buyout by Macquarie Infrastructure Partners II; Houston-based non-hazardous solid-waste services company.

WESTERN DIGITAL CORP.: $3 billion senior unsecured credit facility; Bank of America; $500 million revolver; $2.5 billion five-year term loan; help fund acquisition of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies from Hitachi Ltd., refinance existing bank debt and for general corporate purposes; Irvine, Calif., designer and producer of hard drives and solid state drives.

W.R. GRACE & CO.: Exit facility, including a $200 million revolver; Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank; Columbia, Md., specialty chemicals company.

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