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Published on 11/14/2006 in the Prospect News Convertibles Daily.


New Issue: EMC prices $3.45 billion five-, seven-year convertibles at 1.75%, up 27.5%

By Kenneth Lim

Boston, Nov. 14 – EMC Corp. on Monday priced a dual-tranche $3.45 billion offering of five- and seven-year convertible senior notes within talk, at a coupon of 1.75% and an initial conversion premium of 27.5%. The deal amount includes a $450 million over-allotment option that was immediately exercised.

The notes were offered at par, and the equally sized series were talked at a coupon of 1.5% to 2% and an initial conversion premium of 25% to 30%.

Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers and Citigroup were the bookrunners of the Rule 144A offering.

The convertibles are non-callable, and there are no puts.

The notes have dividend and takeover protection.

EMC, a Hopkinton, Mass.-based information technology solutions provider, will use about $278 million of the proceeds for convertible note hedge and warrant transactions. It will also repay $2.2 billion of senior debt used to finance its acquisition of RSA Security Inc. and concurrently buy back $945.8 million of its common stock.

Issuer:			EMC Corp.

Issue:			Convertible senior notes

Bookrunners:		Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers and Citigroup

Pricing date:		Nov. 13, after the close

Settlement date:		Nov. 17

Distribution:		Rule 144A

Five-year tranche

Amount:			$1.725 billion, including $225 million greenshoe

Greenshoe:		$225 million, already exercised

Maturity:		Dec. 1, 2011

Coupon:			1.75%

Price:			Par

Yield:			1.75%

Conversion premium:	27.5%

Conversion price:		$16.08

Conversion ratio:		62.1978

Dividend protection:	Yes

Takeover protection:	Yes

Call protection:		Non-callable

Puts:			None

Price talk:		1.5%-2%, up 25%-30%

Seven-year tranche

Amount:			$1.725 billion, including $225 million greenshoe

Greenshoe:		$225 million, already exercised

Maturity:		Dec. 1, 2013

Coupon:			1.75%

Price:			Par

Yield:			1.75%

Conversion premium:	27.5%

Conversion price:		$16.08

Conversion ratio:		62.1978

Dividend protection:	Yes

Takeover protection:	Yes

Call protection:		Non-callable

Puts:			None

Price talk:		1.5%-2%, up 25%-30%


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