Frankfurt am Main, December 12, 2019 -- Moody's Investors Service ("Moody's") announced that it has assigned the
following definitive ratings to notes issued by Bosphorus CLO V Designated
Activity Company (the "Issuer"):
....EUR 1,750,000 Class X Secured
Floating Rate Notes due 2032, Definitive Rating Assigned Aaa (sf)
....EUR 97,000,000 Class A-1
Secured Floating Rate Notes due 2032, Definitive Rating Assigned
Aaa (sf)
....EUR 120,000,000 Class A-2
Secured Floating Rate Notes due 2032, Definitive Rating Assigned
Aaa (sf)
....EUR 20,000,000 Class B-1
Secured Floating Rate Notes due 2032, Definitive Rating Assigned
Aa2 (sf)
....EUR 13,250,000 Class B-2
Secured Fixed Rate Notes due 2032, Definitive Rating Assigned Aa2
(sf)
....EUR 21,000,000 Class C Secured
Deferrable Floating Rate Notes due 2032, Definitive Rating Assigned
A2 (sf)
....EUR 25,350,000 Class D Secured
Deferrable Floating Rate Notes due 2032, Definitive Rating Assigned
Baa3 (sf)
....EUR 18,400,000 Class E Secured
Deferrable Floating Rate Notes due 2032, Definitive Rating Assigned
Ba3 (sf)
....EUR 10,500,000 Class F Secured
Deferrable Floating Rate Notes due 2032, Definitive Rating Assigned
B3 (sf)
RATINGS RATIONALE
The rationale for the rating is based on a consideration of the risks
associated with the CLO's portfolio and structure as described in
our methodology.
The Issuer is a managed cash flow CLO. At least 90% of the
portfolio must consist of senior secured obligations and up to 10%
of the portfolio may consist of senior unsecured obligations, second-lien
loans, mezzanine obligations and high yield bonds. The portfolio
is expected to be 90% ramped as of the closing date and to comprise
of predominantly corporate loans to obligors domiciled in Western Europe.
The remainder of the portfolio will be acquired during the three months
ramp-up period in compliance with the portfolio guidelines.
The first payment date will occur at the end of the ramp-up period.
If the manager has not gone effective before the end of the ramp-up
period, the transaction will not be able to meet the effective date
covenants prior to the first payment date. As a result, noteholders
are exposed to the risk of leaking of excess interest proceeds to the
subordinated noteholders on the first payment date, as the transaction
will not divert available interest proceeds to the principal collection
account or effect a sequential repayment of the notes using principal
proceeds in order to cure a ramp-up failure.
Commerzbank AG, London Branch, will manage the CLO.
It will direct the selection, acquisition and disposition of collateral
on behalf of the Issuer and may engage in trading activity, including
discretionary trading, during the transaction's 4.5-year
reinvestment period. Thereafter, subject to certain restrictions,
purchases are permitted using principal proceeds from unscheduled principal
payments and proceeds from sales of credit risk obligations or credit
improved obligations.
Interest and principal amortisation amounts due to the Class X Notes are
paid pro rata with payments to the Class A-1 and A-2 notes.
The Class X Notes amortise by 12.5% or EUR 218,750
over eight payment dates starting on the 2nd payment date.
In addition to the nine classes of notes rated by Moody's, the Issuer
has issued EUR3.0 million of Class Z Notes and EUR32.1125
million of Subordinated Notes which are not rated. The Class Z
Notes receive payments in an amount equivalent to a certain proportion
of the subordinated management fees and its notes' payment is pari
passu with the payment of the subordinated management fee.
The transaction incorporates interest and par coverage tests which,
if triggered, divert interest and principal proceeds to pay down
the notes in order of seniority.
Methodology underlying the rating action:
The principal methodology used in these ratings was "Moody's Global Approach
to Rating Collateralized Loan Obligations" published in March 2019.
Please see the Rating Methodologies page on www.moodys.com
for a copy of this methodology.
Factors that would lead to an upgrade or downgrade of the ratings:
The rated notes' performance is subject to uncertainty. The notes'
performance is sensitive to the performance of the underlying portfolio,
which in turn depends on economic and credit conditions that may change.
The collateral manager's investment decisions and management of the transaction
will also affect the notes' performance.
Moody's modeled the transaction using a cash flow model based on the Binomial
Expansion Technique, as described in Section 2.3 of the "Moody's
Global Approach to Rating Collateralized Loan Obligations" rating methodology
published in March 2019.
Moody's used the following base-case modeling assumptions:
Par Amount: EUR 350,000,000
Diversity Score: 40
Weighted Average Rating Factor (WARF): 2940
Weighted Average Spread (WAS): 3.75%
Weighted Average Coupon (WAC): 4.75%
Weighted Average Recovery Rate (WARR): 43.5%
Weighted Average Life (WAL): 8.5 years
Moody's has addressed the potential exposure to obligors domiciled in
countries with local currency ceiling (LCC) of A1 or below. As
per the portfolio constraints and eligibility criteria, exposures
to countries with LCC of A1 to A3 cannot exceed 10% and obligors
cannot be domiciled in countries with LCC below A3.
Further details regarding Moody's analysis of this transaction may be
found in the related new issue report, available soon on Moodys.com.
REGULATORY DISCLOSURES
For further specification of Moody's key rating assumptions and sensitivity
analysis, see the sections Methodology Assumptions and Sensitivity
to Assumptions of the disclosure form.
Further information on the representations and warranties and enforcement
mechanisms available to investors are available on http://www.moodys.com/researchdocumentcontentpage.aspx?docid=PBS_1206917.
The analysis relies on an assessment of collateral characteristics to
determine the collateral loss distribution, that is, the function
that correlates to an assumption about the likelihood of occurrence to
each level of possible losses in the collateral. As a second step,
Moody's evaluates each possible collateral loss scenario using a
model that replicates the relevant structural features to derive payments
and therefore the ultimate potential losses for each rated instrument.
The loss a rated instrument incurs in each collateral loss scenario,
weighted by assumptions about the likelihood of events in that scenario
occurring, results in the expected loss of the rated instrument.
Moody's quantitative analysis entails an evaluation of scenarios
that stress factors contributing to sensitivity of ratings and take into
account the likelihood of severe collateral losses or impaired cash flows.
Moody's weights the impact on the rated instruments based on its
assumptions of the likelihood of the events in such scenarios occurring.
For ratings issued on a program, series, category/class of
debt or security this announcement provides certain regulatory disclosures
in relation to each rating of a subsequently issued bond or note of the
same series, category/class of debt, security or pursuant
to a program for which the ratings are derived exclusively from existing
ratings in accordance with Moody's rating practices. For ratings
issued on a support provider, this announcement provides certain
regulatory disclosures in relation to the credit rating action on the
support provider and in relation to each particular credit rating action
for securities that derive their credit ratings from the support provider's
credit rating. For provisional ratings, this announcement
provides certain regulatory disclosures in relation to the provisional
rating assigned, and in relation to a definitive rating that may
be assigned subsequent to the final issuance of the debt, in each
case where the transaction structure and terms have not changed prior
to the assignment of the definitive rating in a manner that would have
affected the rating. For further information please see the ratings
tab on the issuer/entity page for the respective issuer on www.moodys.com.
For any affected securities or rated entities receiving direct credit
support from the primary entity(ies) of this credit rating action,
and whose ratings may change as a result of this credit rating action,
the associated regulatory disclosures will be those of the guarantor entity.
Exceptions to this approach exist for the following disclosures,
if applicable to jurisdiction: Ancillary Services, Disclosure
to rated entity, Disclosure from rated entity.
Regulatory disclosures contained in this press release apply to the credit
rating and, if applicable, the related rating outlook or rating
review.
Please see www.moodys.com for any updates on changes to
the lead rating analyst and to the Moody's legal entity that has issued
the rating.
Please see the ratings tab on the issuer/entity page on www.moodys.com
for additional regulatory disclosures for each credit rating.
Andreas Hellmut Botterbusch, CFA
VP-Senior Analyst
Structured Finance Group
Moody's Deutschland GmbH
An der Welle 5
Frankfurt am Main 60322
Germany
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Carine Kumps-Feniou
VP - Senior Credit Officer
Structured Finance Group
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