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Rating Action:

Moody's upgrades the ratings of six classes of notes and four composite obligations issued by ZAIS Investment Grade Limited VI, Ltd., a SF CDO

01 Aug 2011

New York, August 01, 2011 -- Moody's Investors Service announced today that it has upgraded the ratings of four Composite Obligations and six classes of notes issued by ZAIS Investment Grade Limited VI. The classes of notes affected by today's rating actions are as follows:

U.S. $206,000,000 Class A-1 Senior Secured Floating Rate Notes, Upgraded to Aaa (sf); previously on June 24, 2011 A1 (sf) Placed Under Review for Possible Upgrade

U.S. $54,750,000 Class A-2a Senior Secured Floating Rate Notes, graded to Aa3 (sf) and Remains On Review for Possible Upgrade; previously on June 24, 2011 Ba1 (sf) Placed Under Review for Possible Upgrade

U.S. $8,250,000 Class A-2b Senior Secured Fixed Rate Notes, Upgraded to Aa3 (sf) and Remains On Review for Possible Upgrade; previously on June 24, 2011 Ba1 (sf) Placed Under Review for Possible Upgrade

U.S. $21,000,000 Class A-3 Senior Secured Floating Rate Notes, Upgraded to Baa1 (sf) and Remains On Review for Possible Upgrade; previously on June 24, 2011 B1 (sf) Placed Under Review for Possible Upgrade

U.S. $6,400,000 Class B-1 Senior Secured Floating Rate Notes, Upgraded to Ba2 (sf) and Remains On Review for Possible Upgrade; previously on June 24, 2011 Caa3 (sf) Placed Under Review for Possible Upgrade

U.S. $36,600,000 Class B-2 Senior Secured Fixed Rate Notes, Upgraded to Ba2 (sf) and Remains On Review for Possible Upgrade; previously on June 24, 2011 Caa3 (sf) Placed Under Review for Possible Upgrade

U.S. $1,250,000 Type II Composite Obligations, Upgraded to Aa1 (sf) and Remains On Review for Possible Upgrade; previously on June 24, 2011 Baa3 (sf) Placed Under Review for Possible Upgrade

U.S. $10,500,000 Type IV Composite Obligations, Upgraded to Ba1 (sf) and Remains On Review for Possible Upgrade; previously on June 24, 2011 Caa2 (sf) Placed Under Review for Possible Upgrade

U.S. $15,000,000 Type V Composite Obligations, Upgraded to Ba1 (sf) and Remains On Review for Possible Upgrade; previously on June 24, 2011 Caa2 (sf) Placed Under Review for Possible Upgrade

U.S. $8,600,000 Type VI Composite Obligations, Upgraded to Ba1 (sf) and Remains On Review for Possible Upgrade; previously on June 24, 2011 Caa2 (sf) Placed Under Review for Possible Upgrade

RATINGS RATIONALE

According to Moody's, the rating actions taken on the notes and composite obligations result primarily from the improvement of the credit quality of the portfolio.

As of the latest trustee report dated July 20, 2011, the Class A and Class B overcollateralization ratios are reported at 140.61% and 115.28%, respectively, versus February 2011 levels of 126.32% and 103.56%, respectively and currently the Class A OC, B OC and A IC are in compliance. Based on this July report the WARF reported is 1575 versus February 2011 reported WARF of 2276. The Class B-1 and B-2 notes are receiving their interest payments but a deferred interest balance is still outstanding on the Notes and will only be paid down once all the OC and IC tests are passing.

Following an announcement by Moody's on June 22nd that nearly all CLO tranches currently rated Aa1 and below were placed on review for possible upgrade ("Moody's places 4,220 tranches from 611 U.S. and 171 European CLO transactions on review for upgrade"), 98 tranches of U.S. and European Structured Finance (SF) CDOs with material exposure to CLOs were also placed on review for possible upgrade ("Moody's places 98 tranches from 19 U.S. and 3 European SF CDO transactions with exposure to CLOs on review for upgrade"). Today's rating action on the notes reflects CLO tranche upgrades that have taken place thus far, as well as a two notch adjustment for CLO tranches which remain on review for possible upgrade. According to Moody's, 30% of the collateral has been upgraded since June 22nd, and 47% remains on review.

ZAIS Investment Grade Limited VI. is a collateralized debt obligation backed primarily by a portfolio of CLOs, and SF CDOs.

The principal methodology used in this rating was "Moody's Approach to Rating SF CDOs" published in November 2010. Please see the Credit Policy page on www.moodys.com for a copy of this methodology.

Moody's applied the Monte Carlo simulation framework within CDOROMv2.8 to model the loss distribution for SF CDOs. Within this framework, defaults are generated so that they occur with the frequency indicated by the adjusted default probability pool (the default probability associated with the current rating multiplied by the Resecuritization Stress) for each credit in the reference pool. Specifically, correlated defaults are simulated using a normal (or Gaussian) copula model that applies the asset correlation framework. Recovery rates for defaulted credits are generated by applying within the simulation the distributional assumptions, including correlation between recovery values. Together, the simulated defaults and recoveries across each of the Monte Carlo scenarios define the loss distribution for the reference pool.

Once the loss distribution for the collateral has been calculated, each collateral loss scenario derived through the CDOROM loss distribution is associated with the interest and principal received by the rated liability classes via the CDOEdge cash-flow model. The cash flow model takes into account the following: collateral cash flows, the transaction covenants, the priority of payments (waterfall) for interest and principal proceeds received from portfolio assets, reinvestment assumptions, the timing of defaults, interest-rate scenarios and foreign exchange risk (if present). The Expected Loss for each tranche is the weighted average of losses to each tranche across all the scenarios, where the weight is the likelihood of the scenario occurring. Moody's defines the loss as the shortfall in the present value of cash flows to the tranche relative to the present value of the promised cash flows. The present values are calculated using the promised tranche coupon rate as the discount rate. For floating rate tranches, the discount rate is based on the promised spread over Libor and the assumed Libor scenario.

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For ratings issued on a program, series or category/class of debt, this announcement provides relevant 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 relevant regulatory disclosures in relation to the rating action on the support provider and in relation to each particular rating action for securities that derive their credit ratings from the support provider's credit rating. For provisional ratings, this announcement provides relevant 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.

Information sources used to prepare the rating are the following: parties involved in the ratings, and public information.

Moody's did not receive or take into account a third party assessment on the due diligence performed regarding the underlying assets or financial instruments related to the monitoring of this transaction in the past six months.

Moody's considers the quality of information available on the rated entity, obligation or credit satisfactory for the purposes of issuing a rating.

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Please see ratings tab on the issuer/entity page on www.moodys.com for the last rating action and the rating history.

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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.

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Ainat Koller
Associate Analyst
Structured Finance Group
Moody's Investors Service, Inc.
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Structured Finance Group
Moody's Investors Service, Inc.
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Moody's upgrades the ratings of six classes of notes and four composite obligations issued by ZAIS Investment Grade Limited VI, Ltd., a SF CDO
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