Tenet Healthcare this afternoon completed an offering of secured notes via bookrunners Bank of America, Barclays, Citi, and Wells Fargo, according to sources. Terms on the B+/B1 transaction were inked tight to talk, and an early read from the gray market points to modest secondary market demand on the break. The new deal offers the benchmark credit a significant economic savings to the 10% notes due 2018 targeted in a tender offer. As reported, that paper isn’t callable until 2014, so consideration is essentially matching that of a T+50 make-whole, with the company offering $1,164.50 per bonds, inclusive of a consents premium, a filing shows. Recall that the 10% notes being refinanced date to the depths of the financial crisis in March 2009. Issuance was via a privately negotiated debt swap covering about $1.6 billion of notes due in 2011 and 2012. Terms:
| Issuer | Tenet Healthcare | |
| Ratings | B+/B1 | |
| Amount | $850 million | |
| Issue | secured notes (144A) | |
| Coupon | 4.5% | |
| Price | 100 | |
| Yield | 4.5% | |
| Spread | T+307 | |
| FRN eq. | L+296 | |
| Maturity | April 1, 2021 | |
| Call | nc-life | |
| Trade | Jan. 22, 2013 | |
| Settle | Feb. 5, 2013 (t+5) | |
| Jt. Books | BAML/Barc/CITI/WFS | |
| Co’s. | Scotia, MS, SunTrust | |
| Px talk | 4.5-4.75% | |
| Notes | carries T+50 make-whole provision |