On November 9, 2020, Loop Capital Markets acted as a co-manager on a one-tranche, $375 million, first mortgage bond offering for Ameren Illinois. The 10 year first mortgage bond is rated A1/A.
Use of proceeds are earmarked for repaying short-term debt.
On November 5, 2020, Loop Capital Markets acted as a co-manager on a four-tranche, $2.50 billion, senior unsecured bond offering for Waste Management. The bonds are rated Baa1/A/BBB+ across 5- 8- 11- and 30 year tranches.
Use of proceeds are earmarked for repaying all of the outstanding borrowings and general corporate purposes.
On October 30, 2020, Loop Capital Markets served as the bookrunning senior manager for Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s (“DART”) $281.090 million Senior Lien Sales Tax Revenue Refunding Bonds, Series 2020D (Taxable). The Bonds were rated Aa2 (Stable) by Moody’s and AAA (Stable) by Kroll. Bond proceeds were used to advance refund select Series 2014A and 2014B Bonds with a December 1, 2024 call date. The refunding achieved NPV savings of $24.048 million or 10.214% of refunded par. The syndicate generated more than $660 million of priority orders led by insurance companies and bond funds resulting in 2.4x oversubscription.
On October 29, 2020, Loop Capital Markets acted as a joint bookrunner on a three-tranche, $1.20 billion, asset-backed offering for Verizon. The bonds are rated A/A+, AA/AA+ and AAA across the 5-year tranches.
Use of proceeds are earmarked for purchasing existing notes and for general corporate purposes.
On October 29, 2020, Loop Capital Markets acted as a junior co-manager on a four-tranche, $4.90 billion, senior unsecured bond offering for Boeing Company. The bonds are rated Baa2/BBB-/BBB- across 4- 6- 8- and 11 year tranches.
Use of proceeds are earmarked for general corporate purposes.
On October 28, 2020, Loop Capital Markets acted as a joint lead manager on a one-tranche, $500 million, senior unsecured bond offering for Pershing Square. The 10-year senior unsecured bond is rated BBB+/BBB.
Use of proceeds are earmarked for general corporate purposes.
On October 23, 2020, Loop Capital Markets acted as a joint lead manager on a one-tranche, $2.50 billion, fixed/floating rate senior unsecured social bond offering for Citigroup. The 4-year fixed/floating rate senior social bond is rated A3/BBB+/A.
Use of proceeds are earmarked for financing or refinancing in whole or in part a portion of Citigroup’s portfolio of affordable housing assets.
On October 23, 2020, Piedmont Lithium Limited, an emerging North Carolina lithium company, raised $57.5 million in an initial public offering by issuing 2.3 million ADSs at $25.00. Loop Capital Markets served as a co-manager on the initial public offering.
The company intends to use the net proceeds of the offering to continue development of the Piedmont Lithium Project, including a definitive feasible study, testwork, permitting, further exploration drilling and ongoing land consolidation, and for general corporate purposes.
On October 21, 2020, Loop Capital Markets acted as a co-manager on a one-tranche, $1.17 billion, preferred offering for Wells Fargo.
Use of proceeds are earmarked for general corporate purposes.
On October 20, 2020, Loop Capital Markets acted as a co-manager on a one-tranche, $500 million, senior unsecured bond offering for Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. The 5-year senior unsecured bond is rated A2/BBB+/AA+.
Use of proceeds are earmarked for financing and/or re-financing eligible assets.