Financing Strategies

When Life Time Fitness was to be added to the Standard & Poor’s MidCap 400 Index, Ernesto Cruz, Credit Suisse’s head of equity capital markets, gave the company’s management... 2007-09-17

CSX Corporation recently increased a bond offering from $850 million to $1 billion because of investor demand.

AstraZeneca pulled off the largest bond sale in five years but had to give up about 20 to 30 basis points across four tranches of notes to get it through.

SABIC Innovative Plastics sold $1.5 in high-yield bonds at better terms than expected to pay for its leveraged buyout.

Exelon Corp.'s decision to repurchase $1.25 billion of outstanding stock is driven by a desire to boost shareholder returns once the regulatory risks had been cleared up.

Starbucks Coffee sold unsecured bonds for the first time last month to help finance its share repurchasing program.

When Life Time Fitness was to be added to the Standard & Poor’s MidCap 400 Index, Credit Suisse bankers gave the company’s management a call to see if they’d be interested... 2007-09-10

Lincoln National Corp., a Philadelphia-based insurance and investment company, issued $300 million of five-year notes Aug. 22 to pay off $100 million of maturing bonds and commercial... 2007-09-03

XTO Energy, the oil exploration and production company, recently sold $250 million of 5.9% 5-year notes, $300 million of 6 1/4% 10-year notes, and $450 million of 6 3/4% 30-year notes... 2007-09-03

Software and services company TradeBeam recently raised $29 million in venture funding to pay for acquisitions, organic expansion and to put it on the road to becoming public.