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Corporate CQAs

• Telecom Italia Capital S.A. (20 November 2009)
• Telecom Italia Finance, S.A. (20 November 2009)
• Telecom Italia S.p.A. (20 November 2009)
• Rowan Companies, Inc. (20 November 2009)
• CEDC Finance Corporation International (20 November 2009)
• Zimmer Holdings, Inc. (12 November 2009)
• Wisconsin Power and Light Company (10 November 2009)
• Interstate Power and Light Company (10 November 2009)
• Alliant Energy Corporation (10 November 2009)
• CA, Inc. (9 November 2009)

• Boston Properties Limited Partnership (4 December 2008)
• iStar Financial Inc. (30 September 2008)
• Plum Creek Timberlands, L.P. (28 March 2008)
• ERP Operating Limited Partnership
  • 4.75% Notes due '09; 6.95% Notes due '11; 6.625% Notes due '12; 5.20% Notes due '13; 6.584% Notes due '15; 7.125% Notes due '17; 7.570% Notes due '26(19 December 2007)
  • 5.25% Notes due '14; 5.125% Notes due '16; 5.375% Notes due '16(19 December 2007)
  • 5.50% Notes due '12; 5.75% Notes due '17(19 December 2007)
• First Capital Realty Inc. (14November 2007)
• Simon Property Group, L.P. (13 November 2007)
• Vornado Realty L.P. (13 November 2007)
• Kimco Realty Corporation (13 November 2007)
• ProLogis (12 November 2007)

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• Abundant January 2009 Bond Issuance Offers Only Marginal Increase In Event-Risk Protection (March 2009)
• Homebuilders' Bonds Show More Covenant Protection Than Other Sectors' Bonds  (November 2008)
• A Net Worth Test Offers Less Protection to Bondholders in Merger Covenants Than An Earnings-Based Test  (October 2008)
• Credit Roundtable Adopts a Contract-Based Approach to Mitigating Event Risk     (April 2008)
• The Transatlantic Divide:  Covenant Protection Varies Across Regions, Ratings (March2008)
• SEC Filing Delays and Potential Bond Defaults: What is the Issuer's Real Promise?  (January 2008)
• Moody's Approach to Assigning Covenant Quality Assessments for REITs and Other Real Estate Companies (November 2007)
• Analysis of BCE Acquisition by Private Equity Consortium (October 2007)
  
• Methodology Update for Covenant Quality Assessments: The Incurrence and Restricted Payments Covenants (July 2007)
  
• The Successor Obligor Clause in the Tyco Litigation: Are There Lessons in Bondholder Protection? (June 2007)
  
• Moody's Approach to Evaluating Indenture Covenants for REITs and other Real Estate Companies (May 2007)
  
• Change of Control in European Baa Bonds: Increasingly Common, But Investor Protection Varies (April 2007)
  
• Change of Control Covenants in "Club Deals": Are Investors Really Any Better Off? (March 2007)
  
• Moody's Approach to Evaluating Indenture Covenants and Assigning Covenant Quality Assessments (November 2006)
  
• Moody's Indenture Covenant Research & Assessment Framework - Request for Comment (13 September 2006)

• Moody's reports on effectiveness of change-of-control "puts" in European Baa bonds (26 April 2007)
  
• Moody's: LBO "club deals" may not trigger a "put" in one version of the change of control covenant (14 March 2007)
  
• Moody's publishes covenant assessment methodology (28 November 2006)
  
• Moody's extends covenant assessment comment period to November 6 (31 October 2006)
  
• Teleconference: Moody's Indenture Covenant Research & Assessment Framework (25 September 2006)
  
• Moody's calls for comment on covenant assessment plan (13 September 2006)
  

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