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Quest planning $1.3B note deal

March 22, 2011 1:02 AM UTC

Quest Diagnostics Inc. (NYSE:DGX) plans to sell $1.3 billion in senior unsecured notes. Morgan Stanley; Goldman Sachs; RBS; JPMorgan; and Wells Fargo are book-running managers. Quest said it will use the proceeds to fund its acquisition of the Athena Diagnostics Inc. unit of Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE:TMO), and to repay its outstanding senior unsecured revolving credit facility and secured receivables credit facility. ...