Investment Grade Calendar

On The Horizon

BARCLAYS BANK PLC: Contingent capital notes due April of 2023 (/BBB-/BBB-); non-callable to March of 2018; automatic note write-down on capital adequacy triggering event; Barclays, BNP Paribas Securities Corp., BofA Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Wells Fargo Securities LLC are bookrunners; proceeds for general corporate purposes; London-based unit of Barclays plc.

DOLLAR GENERAL CORP.: Long-term unsecured senior notes (Baa3/BBB-/); to refinance debt under secured credit facilities; expected to close in company's first quarter ending in May; Goodlettsville, Tenn.-based discount retailer.

ENTERGY CORP.: $575 million of bonds in connection with merger of electric transmission business with ITC Holdings Corp.; transmission subsidiaries Entergy Transco Subs to borrow additional $1.2 billion from capital markets to pay down debt; Dallas-based integrated energy company.

HARTFORD FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP, INC.: $350 million or more long-term senior notes; to help fund tender offer to be completed on or before April 3; Hartford, Conn.-based investment and insurance company.

MALLINCKRODT PLC: Unsecured bonds; for general corporate purposes with excess to be retained by Covidien plc; specialty pharmaceutical spin-off of Dublin-based health-care products company Covidien.

2013

LINDE AG: Dollar bonds, to refinance $4.5 billion acquisition loan for $4.6 billion purchase of Lincare Holdings Inc.; Munich-based gases and engineering company.

MIDAMERICAN ENERGY HOLDINGS CO.: $500 million to $600 million in late 2013; to pay debt owed to turbine supplier; subsidiary PacifiCorp to price $300 million to $400 million mid-year debt issuance; subsidiary Topaz Solar Farms LLC pricing debt for first half of 2013; subsidiary Electric Transmission Texas LLC pricing debt mid-year to fund continued expansion in Ercot; Des Moines-based energy producer.

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