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Baker Hughes tapped the debt markets for €3 billion in senior notes last week, splitting the issuance between euro and USD tranches, while Consolidated Edison locked in a $3.5 billion credit facility with Bank of America to replace its prior borrowing arrangements. Cintas made the biggest strategic move of the day, announcing a two-step merger agreement to acquire UniFirst — the kind of consolidation play that tends to reshape competitive dynamics in uniform services before the ink dries. |
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| BKR | Baker Hughes issues €3B senior notes in euros and USD tranche on March 5… Baker Hughes issued €3 billion in senior notes on March 5, 2026, consisting of four euro-denominated tranches: €600 million of 3.226% notes due 2030, €900 million of 3.812% notes due 2034, €750 million of 4.193% notes due 2038, and €750 million of 4.737% notes due 2046. The notes were issued by Baker Hughes Holdings LLC and Baker Hughes Co-Obligor, Inc. through underwriting agreements with Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and other underwriters. →Baker Hughes taps the European debt market with €3B across four tranches extending to 2046 — a rarity for U.S. oilfield services companies whose capital needs typically skew shorter-term and dollar-denominated. The dual-currency structure (EUR notes plus a USD tranche) suggests hedging future international capital expenditures while locking in sub-5% rates across 20-year paper — aggressive duration for a cyclical energy infrastructure play. |
| | ED | Consolidated Edison enters $3.5B credit facility with Bank of America… Consolidated Edison, CECONY, and Orange and Rockland Utilities entered into a new $3.5 billion credit agreement on March 11, 2026, with Bank of America serving as administrative agent. The new credit facility terminated two previous credit agreements dated March 27, 2023 and March 24, 2025, with the full $3.5 billion available to CECONY, $800 million (expandable to $1 billion) to Con Edison, and $250 million to O&R. →Con Edison replaces two separate credit facilities with a single $3.5B revolver, consolidating liquidity across the parent and its New York/New Jersey utility subsidiaries. Regulated utilities rarely make noise with credit agreements, but the timing—just before spring construction season—hints at funding flexibility for grid modernization and storm hardening projects that have ballooned since state climate mandates tightened. |
| | BIIB | Biogen Chief Legal Officer Susan Alexander to depart end of May 2026 Susan H. Alexander, Chief Legal Officer of Biogen, will depart the company at the end of May 2026. The company has initiated a search for her replacement. →Biogen's Chief Legal Officer departs after navigating the Aduhelm approval controversy and subsequent Medicare coverage restrictions — a tenure defined by regulatory and reimbursement battles that reshaped the company's Alzheimer's strategy. The end-of-May exit gives the incoming CLO a buffer before mid-year data readouts on the lecanemab label expansion. |
| | ON | ON Semiconductor Semiconductor Group President Simon Keeton to depart June 30… Simon Keeton, Group President of the Power Solutions Group at ON Semiconductor, will resign effective June 30, 2026. Keeton, who joined the company in July 2007 and became Group President in February 2024, stepped down from all officer positions immediately but will remain through June 30 to support the transition. →ON Semiconductor's Power Solutions Group president exits after 19 years at the company but just two years running the division — an unusually short stint atop a unit that generates roughly 40% of revenue. The immediate officer resignation with a June transition window suggests the departure wasn't voluntary, coming as analog chip demand softens and auto electrification growth rates decelerate. |
| | +1 | 1 more companies announced leadership changesAXON Cullivan to retire from board at 2026 annual meeting — no disagreement cited |
| | +2 | 2 more companies announced material agreementsCTAS to acquire UniFirst in two-step merger agreement signed March 10 GPN issues $1B senior notes through underwriting agreement with Barclays, BofA, JPMorgan |
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