Medtronic Inc. (NYSE:MDT) is looking to drum up $1 billion through a debt offering.
The Fridley, Minn.-based medical device giant announced a registered offering of $500 million worth of its 2.625 percent senior notes, due 2016, and $500 million of its 4.125 percent senior notes due in 2021.
Medtronic said it plans to use the offering’s proceeds for working capital and general corporate purposes, including the repayment of debt.
The notes will be unsecured and will rank equally with all of Medtronic’s "other unsecured indebtedness,” the company said in a federal Securities & Exchange Commission filing.
Medtronic is no stranger to restructuring its debt load. A year ago, it registered for a $3 billion offering of senior debt notes to support the same measures of its latest offering.
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Read more - NovaShunt AG raises $25 million in Series B
Zug, Switzerland.-based NovaShunt AG announced that it raised CHF 23.7 million (about $25 million) in a Series B preferred share financing round co-led by BioMedInvest AG, Entrepreneurs Fund and Capricorn Health-tech Fund. Existing investors, NeoMed and VI Partners, were also significant participants in the new financing and NeoMed retains its role as the lead investor and largest shareholder of NovaShunt.
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