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JPM’s Southern Montana Deal Likely to Price Next Week

JPMorgan Securities’ private placement for Southern Montana Electric Generation & Transmission Cooperative is expected to price next week...

Wells Fargo Gets $200 Million for Helmerich & Payne

Tulsa, Okla.-based oil and gas company Helmerich & Payne Inc. tapped the U.S. private placement market for $200 million in an upsized deal via Wells Fargo last week...

BASML Prices $150 Million for Georgia Transmission

Banc of America Securities Merrill Lynch priced a $150 million private placement for Georgia Transmission Corp. (GTC) earlier this week...

Westar Energy Subsidiary Issues FMB

Kansas Gas & Electric (KGE), a subsidiary of Wichita-based Westar Energy Inc., tapped the private placement market with a $300 million first mortgage bond deal this week...

DTC Taps Private Market via Calyon

The Depository Trust Company (DTC) got $91 million in private funds via Calyon Securities last week in a dual currency deal, sources confirmed...

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Southern LNG Seeks Private Funds

Liquefied natural gas company Southern LNG was in the market last week seeking private funds via Banc of America Securities.

Survey Shows Cautious Optimism Reigns

A survey conducted at this year's Private Placements Industry Forum shows that 'cautious optimism' is the prevailing sentiment among private market participants.

Duquense Light Seeks FMB via JPM

Western Pennsylvania-based electric utility Duquesne Light is looking to tap the market with a first mortgage bond deal via JPMorgan Securities.

Buzz Box

Citigroup, Deutsche Bank and JPMorgan Securities are in the market with a deal for Ultra Petroleum. The deal was on the road last week and is expected to price-up this week.

Buysiders Start Year on Cautious Note

Private placement investors sounded a conservative tone last week at the Private Placements Industry Forum in Boca Raton, Fla., saying they are mostly interested in NAIC-1 deals from non-cyclical industries, with a bias toward deals from the U.S. and familiar regions like the U.K. and Western Europe. Though caution was indeed the watchword among buysiders, most said they would look selectively at deals further down the credit ladder and farther from home.

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