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From: Paul Barrett Sent: Monday, November 5, 2018 5:41 PM To: Cc: Richard Kahn Subject: RE: LSC Bonds I have not been able to sell the bonds at 106. The bid went away and now the best I am seeing is a bid for Ya the position at 105 or full bid at 104.75. Very poor liquidity. At a 104.75 the bonds have a YTW of 7.33%. I think they trade back down to $100. So would still recommend we sell them here. Feels like there are a lot of bonds for sale. Sure we can get back in around $100-101. Made no sense why they rallied as much as they did. Let me know. Paul Paul Barrett Alpha Group Capital LLC 142 W 57th Street, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10019 From: J <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2018 3:42 PM EFTA_R1_01815147 EFTA02615524 To: Paul Barrett Subject: Re: LSC ok On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 3:21 PM Paul Barrett wrote: Bonds are trading down 1 point at 106 now. I still think we sell. We were given a gift yesterday and I am worried they trade back down. Let me know. Paul Barrett Alpha Group Capital LLC 142 W 57th Street, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10019 From: J <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]» Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2018 2:10 PM To: Paul Barrett Subject: Re: LSC Bonds ok do it On Thu Nov 1 2018 at 12:56 PM Paul Barrett wrote: ; Richard Kahn 2 EFTA_R1_01815148 EFTA02615525 Purchased Jan 2017 @ 105.25. Yield at the time was 7.60%. • Bonds were trading at $97 before this announcement. They have spent the last year in a $97- $104 range. Sold off $4 in October. • At $97 that was a 9.52% YTW • At $107 it is now a 6.69% YTW • B rated issuer • Being acquired by Quad Graphics. Another B rated issuer whose 2022 bonds are yielding 6.66% YTW If we sell at $107 we make $46K from price appreciation for a total return of $463K or 9% annualized. Deal expected to close in the summer of 2019. Option 1: Do nothing. It is callable in a year at 106.56. So little price upside from here. Risk of the deal not closing and we trade back down to <100. Option 2: Sell at 107. Roll proceeds into Consolidated Communications bonds. Consolidated Communications 6.5% 2022 • $ 93.00 • YTW 8.64%; 3.3yr duration. • Broadband provider in the Northeast/Midwest. Stable business. • 4.3x levered; $530MM of EBITDA in 2018. • Only 40MM of term loans maturing before 2022. Bigger term loan maturing behind us in 2023. • JPM idea. Paul Paul Barrett Alpha Group Capital LLC 142 W 57th Street, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10019 3 EFTA_R1_01815149 EFTA02615526 From: J <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]» Sent: Thursday, To: Paul Barrett Cc: Richard Kahn Subject: Re: LSC Bonds again,. i need better info, . what was yield to maturity on purchase. . when do they pay? what bonds would you buy instead. , ? and its yield . . not enough to say we buy another. t 12:16 PM Paul Barrett > wrote: Hi Jeffrey We own $2.65MM of the LSC Communications 8.75% 2023 bonds. We paid $105.25 back in Jan 2017. • Bonds trading up 10 points this morning on a takeover. Currently at 107.00. • I think we sell. If the deal does not close we are back down at 97-98. If it closes there is probably 2-3 points of additional upside. • We can take the proceeds and find a similar bond that does not have the binary risk to it. Paul Paul Barrett Alpha Group Capital LLC 142 W 57th Street, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10019 4 EFTA_R1_01815150 EFTA02615527 please note The information contained in this communication is confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may constitute inside information, and is intended only for the use of the addressee. It is the property of JEE Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. 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