Published on August 27, 2009 at 9:00 AM
Cardinal Health today announced a cash tender offer to purchase up to an aggregate purchase price of $1.2 billion of its long-term debt securities.
The tender offer is part of a previously announced plan to reduce the company's long-term debt after the completion of the planned spinoff of CareFusion Corp. and includes notes issued by both Cardinal Health and one if its wholly owned subsidiaries, Allegiance Corp. Conditions to the tender offer include the completion of the planned spinoff of CareFusion and Cardinal Health receiving a cash distribution from CareFusion in the amount of approximately $1.4 billion. Cardinal Health will fund the purchase of the Allegiance Corp. notes listed in the table below from cash on hand and will fund the purchase of the Cardinal Health notes listed in the table below from the cash distribution from CareFusion. The balance of the cash distribution will be used to retire the floating rate notes of Cardinal Health due in October 2009.
Source: http://www.cardinalhealth.com
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