High Yield Calendar: $200 million deals being marketed

NOVEMBER 30 WEEK

FIRST SHIP LEASE TRUST: $200 million senior notes due 2016 (/B+/BB-); JPMorgan, Jefferies & Co. (joint), Dahlman Rose & Co., Daiwa Capital Markets, DnB Nor Markets, OCBC Bank, UniCredit Capital Markets; Rule 144A for life; non-callable for four years; to repay bank debt and fund vessel acquisitions; Singapore-based shipping trust that provides alternative capital financing solutions to the maritime industry; roadshow including Singapore, Hong Kong, London and United States starts Nov. 25; pricing Nov. 30 week.

EXPECTED DECEMBER BUSINESS

NATIONAL MONEY MART CO. (DOLLAR FINANCIAL CORP.): $250 million senior unsecured notes; Credit Suisse; Rule 144A/Regulation S; to finance the acquisition of Military Financial Services, LLC; Dollar Financial is a Berwyn, Pa.-based financial services company; expected December business.

JDA SOFTWARE GROUP, INC.: $275 million senior secured notes with five-year to seven-year maturity, in best efforts deal; proceeds to help finance acquisition of i2 Technologies, Inc.; Goldman Sachs financial adviser to JDA, a Scottsdale, Ariz.-based supply chain services provider; expected to yield 8½% to 8¾%; expected December business.

ON THE HORIZON

CDW CORP.: $1.94 billion notes: $890 million senior unsecured cash-pay notes due 2015 (Caa1/CCC+), $300 million senior unsecured PIK toggle notes due 2015 (Caa1/CCC+) and $750 million senior subordinated notes due 2017 (Caa2/CCC+); J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Morgan Stanley & Co. Inc.; to refinance bridge loan related to LBO; Vernon Hills, Ill., provider of technology products and services.

CWI: $1 billion of new bonds and credit facilities; to replace existing debt facilities and meet medium-term debt maturities (deal is related to decision to separate CWI and Worldwide into two companies separately listed on the London Stock Exchange, targeted for completion by March 31, 2010; CWI is a London-based telecommunications business.

HANESBRANDS INC.:$500 million bonds; also $1.15 billion senior secured credit facility via JPMorgan, Bank of America, HSBC and Barclays (bank deal in market Nov. 16 week); to refinance existing debt; Winston Salem, N.C., marketer of everyday apparel essentials.

IMS HEALTH INC.: $1 billion of senior unsecured notes; Goldman Sachs & Co.; to help fund buyout by TPG Capital and the CPP Investment Board, expected to close first quarter of 2010, subject to approval of IMS shareholders, regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions; Norwalk, Conn.-based provider of market intelligence to the pharmaceutical and health care industries.

INFORMA GLOBAL MARKETS: High-yield notes (Ba2/BB), size to be determined; JPMorgan; London-based real-time capital markets information services provider; originally scheduled as early September business, pending market conditions.

MOMENTIVE PERFORMANCE MATERIALS INC.: $500 million first-lien senior secured notes due 2017 (expected ratings Caa2/CCC-); J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.; Rule 144A; to pay down bank debt and general corporate purposes; silicone producer headquartered in Albany, N.Y.

NORCRAFT HOLDINGS, LP: Senior secured notes; UBS Investment Bank; part of proceeds to fund tender for up to $35 million principal amount of its and Norcraft Capital Corp.'s 9¾% senior discount notes due 2012, early tender period expires Dec. 1; Eagan, Minn.-based cabinetry company.

NORTH AMERICAN ENERGY PARTNERS, INC: C$200 million (approximate) notes; Edmonton, Alta.-based gas and oil field services provider.

PINNACLE FOODS GROUP LLC: $275 million senior unsecured notes; backed by bridge loan from Credit Suisse, Bank of America, Barclays, HSBC and Macquarie Capital are the joint bookrunners on the bridge loan, with Credit Suisse the left lead also $895 million bank debt (bond size may be increased if unable to secure total amount of bank financing; to help finance the $1.3 billion acquisition of Birds Eye Foods Inc., expected to close no later than the first quarter of 2010;

Pinnacle Foods is a Cherry Hill, N.J.-based manufacturer and distributor of branded packaged foods.

RIVERDEEP INTERACTIVE LEARNING USA: $820 million senior subordinated notes; Credit Suisse, Citigroup (joint); proceeds along with $1.87 billion senior bank debt, $750 million mezzanine debt and $1.5 billion equity to fund the acquisition of Houghton Mifflin by Riverdeep from Thomas H. Lee Partners, Bain Capital Partners, LLC and Blackstone Group for $3.4 billion; Riverdeep, based in Dublin, Ireland, is a publisher of interactive products for the consumer and school markets.

ROADSHOWS

Starts Nov. 25: FIRST SHIP LEASE TRUST $200 million; JPMorgan, Jefferies & Co.

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