New York, June 29, 2017 -- Moody's Investors Service has upgraded the rating on notes issued by Lakeside
CDO II, Ltd:
U.S. $1,170,000,000 Class A-1
First Priority Senior Secured Floating Rate Delayed Draw Notes Due 2040
(current outstanding balance of $23,875,757.80),
Upgraded to Aa3 (sf); previously on February 08, 2017,
Upgraded to A3 (sf)
Lakeside CDO II, Ltd, issued in March 2004, is a collateralized
debt obligation backed primarily by a portfolio of RMBS, TruPS and
SF CDOs, originated in 2002 to 2004.
RATINGS RATIONALE
This rating action is due primarily to the deleveraging of the senior
notes and an increase in the transaction's Class A-1 overcollateralization
(OC) ratio since February 2017. The Class A-1 notes have
been paid down by approximately 31.9% or $11.2
million since that time. Based on Moody's calculation, the
Class A-1 OC ratio is currently 755.2%, versus
539.3% in February 2017. Payments to the Class A-1
and Class A-2 notes are partially the result of interest and principal
proceeds from certain assets treated as defaulted by the trustee in amounts
materially exceeding expectation.
Notwithstanding the benefits of deleveraging, there is interest
shortfall and interest payments to Class A-2 notes are partially
supplemented with principal proceeds in the waterfall. Principal
proceeds in an amount of $0.8 million have been diverted
to pay the Class A-2 interest on the March 2017 payment date.
Methodology Underlying the Rating Action:
The principal methodology used in this rating was "Moody's Approach to
Rating SF CDOs," published in June 2017. 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 Rating:
This transaction is subject to a number of factors and circumstances that
could lead to either an upgrade or downgrade of the ratings, as
described below:
1) Macroeconomic uncertainty: Primary causes of uncertainty about
assumptions are the extent of any deterioration in either consumer or
commercial credit conditions and in the residential real estate property
markets. The residential real estate property market's uncertainties
include housing prices; the pace of residential mortgage foreclosures,
loan modifications and refinancing; the unemployment rate; and
interest rates.
2) Deleveraging: One source of uncertainty in this transaction is
whether deleveraging from principal proceeds, recoveries from defaulted
assets, and excess interest proceeds will continue and at what pace.
Faster than expected deleveraging could have a significantly positive
impact on the notes' ratings.
3) Amortization profile assumptions: Moody's modeled the amortization
of the underlying collateral portfolio based on its assumed weighted average
life (WAL). Regardless of the WAL assumption, due to the
sensitivity of amortization assumption and its impact on the amount of
principal available to pay down the notes, Moody's supplemented
its analysis with various sensitivity analysis around the amortization
profile of the underlying collateral assets.
4) Recovery of defaulted assets: The amount of recoveries received
from defaulted assets reported by the trustee and those that Moody's
assumes as having defaulted as well as the timing of these recoveries
create additional uncertainty. Moody's analyzed defaulted
assets assuming limited recoveries, and therefore, realization
of any recoveries exceeding Moody's expectation in the future would
positively impact the notes' ratings.
Loss and Cash Flow Analysis:
Moody's applies a Monte Carlo simulation framework in Moody's
CDOROM™ to model the loss distribution for SF CDOs. The simulated
defaults and recoveries for each of the Monte Carlo scenarios define the
reference pool's loss distribution. Moody's then uses
the loss distribution as an input in the CDOEdge™ cash flow model.
In addition to the base case analysis, Moody's also conducted sensitivity
analyses to test the impact of a number of default probabilities on the
rated notes. Below is a summary of the impact of different default
probabilities (expressed in terms of WARF) on all of the rated notes (by
the difference in the number of notches versus the current model output,
for which a positive difference corresponds to lower expected loss):
Ba1 and below ratings notched up by two rating notches (864):
Class A-1: +2
Class A-2: 0
Class B: 0
Class C: 0
Ba1 and below ratings notched down by two notches (2127):
Class A-1: -2
Class A-2: -1
Class B: 0
Class C: 0
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.
Moody's describes its loss and cash flow analysis in the section
"Ratings Rationale" of this press release.
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 or category/class of debt,
this announcement provides certain regulatory disclosures in relation
to each rating of a subsequently issued bond or note of the same series
or category/class of debt 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,
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Gunjan Bothra
Associate Analyst
Structured Finance Group
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