New York, September 16, 2022 — Moody’s Investors Service (“Moody’s”) has assigned ratings to three classes of bonds issued by HalseyPoint CLO 6, Ltd. (the “Issuer” or “HalseyPoint CLO 6”).
Moody’s rating action is as follows:
$300,000,000 A-1 Class Floating Rate Senior Secured Notes Due 2034, Allocated Aaa (sf)
$25,000,000 A-2 Class Floating Rate Senior Secured Notes Due 2034, Allocated Aaa (sf)
$18,750,000 Class C secured floating rate mezzanine notes due 2034, assigned A3(sf)
The Notes listed above are referred to herein, collectively, as the “Rated Notes”.
RATINGS RATIONALE
The justification of the ratings is based on our methodology and takes into account all the relevant risks, in particular those associated with the portfolio and the structure of the CLO.
HalseyPoint CLO 6 is a managed cash flow CLO. The Notes issued will be secured primarily by extensively syndicated senior secured corporate loans. At least 90% of the portfolio must be comprised of senior secured loans and qualifying investments, and up to 10% of the portfolio may be comprised of junior loans, unsecured loans, senior secured bonds , senior secured bonds, high yield bonds and unsecured loans. Bonds, provided that no more than 5% of the Portfolio may be comprised of Senior Secured Bonds, Senior Secured Notes, High Yield Bonds and Debentures. The portfolio is increased by approximately 97% on the closing date.
HalseyPoint Asset Management, LLC (the “Manager”) will direct the selection, acquisition and disposition of assets on behalf of the Issuer and may engage in trading activities, including discretionary trading, during the period of four-year reinvestment of the transaction. Thereafter, subject to certain restrictions, the Manager may reinvest unscheduled principal payments and proceeds from the sale of credit risk assets.
In addition to the Rated Notes, the Issuer has issued four other categories of guaranteed notes and one category of subordinated notes.
The transaction incorporates interest and face value coverage tests which, if triggered, divert interest and principal proceeds to repay the notes in order of seniority.
Moody’s modeled the transaction using a cash flow model based on the binomial expansion technique, as described in section 2.3.2.1 of the rating methodology “Moody’s Global Approach to Rating Collateralized Loan Obligations”. published in December 2021.
For modeling purposes, Moody’s used the following basic assumptions:
Nominal amount: $500,000,000
Diversity score: 75
Weighted Average Rating Factor (WARF): 2855
Weighted Average Deviation (WAS): SOFR+3.75%
Weighted average coupon (WAC): 6%
Weighted average recovery rate (WARR): 47%
Weighted Average Life (WAL): 7.1 years
Methodology underlying the rating action:
The main methodology used in these ratings is “Moody’s Global Approach to Rating Collateralized Loan Obligations” published in December 2021 and available on https://ratings.moodys.com/api/rmc-documents/74832. Otherwise, please see the Scoring Methodologies page on https://ratings.moodys.com for a copy of this methodology.
Factors that would cause ratings to be upgraded or downgraded:
The performance of the Rated Securities is subject to uncertainty. The performance of Rated Notes is sensitive to the performance of the underlying portfolio, which in turn depends on changing economic and credit conditions. The Manager’s investment decisions and the management of the transaction will also affect the performance of the Rated Notes.
REGULATORY INFORMATION
For details on key rating assumptions and Moody’s sensitivity analysis, see the Methodological Assumptions and Sensitivity to Assumptions sections in the Disclosure Form. Moody’s rating symbols and definitions can be found at https://ratings.moodys.com/rating-definitions.
Further information on representations, warranties and enforcement mechanisms available to investors can be found at https://ratings.moodys.com/documents/PBS_1339705.
The analysis relies on an assessment of the characteristics of the collateral to determine the distribution of collateral losses, ie the function correlated to an assumption about the probability of occurrence of each level of possible collateral losses. Secondly, Moody’s assesses each possible collateral loss scenario using a model that reproduces the relevant structural characteristics to deduce the payouts and therefore the ultimate potential losses for each rated instrument. The loss incurred by a rated instrument 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 involves an evaluation of scenarios that focus on factors contributing to rating sensitivity and consider the likelihood of material collateral losses or impaired cash flows. Moody’s weights the impact on rated instruments based on its assumptions of the likelihood of events in such scenarios occurring.
For ratings issued on a program, series, category/class of debt or security, this announcement provides certain regulatory information regarding each rating of a subsequently issued bond or note of the same series, category/class of debt, security or under a program for which ratings are derived exclusively from existing ratings in accordance with Moody’s rating practices. For ratings issued on a media provider, this announcement provides certain regulatory information relating to the credit rating action on the media provider and each particular credit rating action for securities whose credit ratings are derived from the support provider’s credit rating. For the provisional ratings, this press release provides certain regulatory information relating to the provisional rating assigned, and to a final rating that may be assigned after the final issuance of the debt, in each case where the structure and conditions of the transaction n have not changed prior to the final rating being assigned in a way that would have affected the rating. For more information, please see the issuer/transaction page of the respective issuer at https://ratings.moodys.com.
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The ratings have been disclosed to the rated entity or its designated agent(s) and issued without modification as a result of such disclosure.
These notes are solicited. Please refer to Moody’s Policy for the Designation and Assignment of Unsolicited Credit Ratings available on its website. https://ratings.moodys.com.
The regulatory information contained in this press release applies to the credit rating and, if applicable, the outlook or rating revision relating thereto.
Moody’s general principles for assessing environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks in our credit analysis are available at https://ratings.moodys.com/documents/PBC_1288235.
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