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Time Warner Cable Closes $1 Billion Notes Offering
Practices
Client Time Warner Cable Inc. closed a £650,000,000 (approximately U.S. $1 billion) registered offering of 5 1/4% notes due 2042. The notes were offered in the United Kingdom. The bookrunning managers for the transaction were Barclays Bank PLC, Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch and The Royal Bank of Scotland plc. In connection with the notes offering, the company entered into cross-currency swaps to effectively convert its £650 million aggregate principal amount of fixed-rate British pound sterling denominated debt to fixed-rate U.S. dollar denominated debt.
The Paul, Weiss team included corporate partners John Kennedy and Manuel Frey; and tax partner Jeff Samuels.