Score Motion: Moody’s upgrades scores on three lessons of notes issued by Covenant Credit score Companions CLO III, Ltd.International Credit score Analysis – 15 Aug 2022Roughly $69 million of notes affectedNew York, August 15, 2022 — Moody’s Traders Service (“Moody’s”) has upgraded the scores on the next notes issued by Covenant Credit score Companions CLO III, Ltd.:U.S.$44,000,000 Class B Senior Secured Floating Charge Notes due 2029, Upgraded to Aa1 (sf); beforehand on September 8, 2017 Assigned Aa2 (sf)U.S.$17,000,000 Class C-1 Mezzanine Secured Deferrable Floating Charge Notes due 2029, Upgraded to A1 (sf); beforehand on September 8, 2017 Assigned A2 (sf)U.S.$8,000,000 Class C-2 Mezzanine Secured Deferrable Fastened Charge Notes due 2029, Upgraded to A1 (sf); beforehand on September 8, 2017 Assigned A2 (sf)Covenant Credit score Companions CLO III, Ltd., initially issued in September 2017, is a managed cashflow CLO. The notes are collateralized primarily by a portfolio of broadly syndicated senior secured company loans. The transaction’s reinvestment interval led to October 2021.RATINGS RATIONALEThe ranking motion is primarily a results of deleveraging of the senior notes and a rise within the transaction’s over-collateralization (OC) ratios since July 2021. The Class A notes have been paid down by roughly 14.2% or $36.5 million since then. Primarily based on the trustee’s July 2022 [1] report, the OC ratios for the Class A/B and Class C notes are reported at 130.58% and 119.77%, respectively, versus July 2021 [2] ranges of 127.98% and 118.15%, respectively. Moody’s notes that the July 2022 [3] trustee-reported OC ratios don’t replicate the July 2022 fee distribution, when $12.9 million of principal proceeds have been used to pay down the Class A Notes.The deal has additionally benefited from an enchancment within the credit score high quality of the portfolio since July 2021. Primarily based on the trustee’s July 2022 [4] report, the weighted common ranking issue (WARF) is at present 2884 in comparison with 2969 in July 2021 [5] report.Moody’s modeled the transaction utilizing a money circulate mannequin based mostly on the Binomial Growth Method, as described in “Moody’s International Strategy to Score Collateralized Mortgage Obligations.”The important thing mannequin inputs Moody’s utilized in its evaluation, equivalent to par, weighted common ranking issue, variety rating, weighted common unfold, and weighted common restoration charge, are based mostly on its revealed methodology and will differ from the trustee’s reported numbers. For modeling functions, Moody’s used the next base-case assumptions:Performing par and principal proceeds steadiness: $348,711,262Defaulted par: $1,301,027Range Rating: 56Weighted Common Score Issue (WARF): 2787Weighted Common Unfold (WAS) (earlier than accounting for reference charge flooring): 3.20%Weighted Common Restoration Charge (WARR): 48.03%Weighted Common Life (WAL): 3.5 yearsIn addition to base case evaluation, Moody’s thought-about extra situations the place outcomes may diverge from the bottom case. These extra situations embrace, amongst others, close to time period defaults by firms going through liquidity strain, deterioration in credit score high quality of the underlying portfolio, lower in total WAS and decrease recoveries on defaulted belongings.Methodology Used for the Score ActionThe principal methodology utilized in these scores was “Moody’s International Strategy to Score Collateralized Mortgage Obligations” revealed in December 2021 and out there at https://scores.moodys.com/api/rmc-documents/74832. Alternatively, please see the Score Methodologies web page on https://scores.moodys.com for a replica of this technique.Components that Would Result in an Improve or Downgrade of the Rankings:The efficiency of the rated notes is topic to uncertainty. The efficiency of the rated notes is delicate to the efficiency of the underlying portfolio, which in flip relies on financial and credit score circumstances that will change. The Supervisor’s funding selections and administration of the transaction will even have an effect on the efficiency of the rated notes.REGULATORY DISCLOSURESFor additional specification of Moody’s key ranking assumptions and sensitivity evaluation, see the sections Methodology Assumptions and Sensitivity to Assumptions within the disclosure type. Moody’s Score Symbols and Definitions may be discovered on https://scores.moodys.com/rating-definitions.The evaluation depends on an evaluation of collateral traits to find out the collateral loss distribution, that’s, the operate that correlates to an assumption concerning the chance of incidence to every degree of doable losses within the collateral. As a second step, Moody’s evaluates every doable collateral loss situation utilizing a mannequin that replicates the related structural options to derive funds and due to this fact the final word potential losses for every rated instrument. The loss a rated instrument incurs in every collateral loss situation, weighted by assumptions concerning the chance of occasions in that situation occurring, leads to the anticipated lack of the rated instrument.Moody’s quantitative evaluation entails an analysis of situations that stress elements contributing to sensitivity of scores and consider the chance of extreme collateral losses or impaired money flows. Moody’s weights the affect on the rated devices based mostly on its assumptions of the chance of the occasions in such situations occurring.For scores issued on a program, sequence, class/class of debt or safety this announcement gives sure regulatory disclosures in relation to every ranking of a subsequently issued bond or be aware of the identical sequence, class/class of debt, safety or pursuant to a program for which the scores are derived solely from present scores in accordance with Moody’s ranking practices. For scores issued on a help supplier, this announcement gives sure regulatory disclosures in relation to the credit standing motion on the help supplier and in relation to every specific credit standing motion for securities that derive their credit score scores from the help supplier’s credit standing. For provisional scores, this announcement gives sure regulatory disclosures in relation to the provisional ranking assigned, and in relation to a definitive ranking which may be assigned subsequent to the ultimate issuance of the debt, in every case the place the transaction construction and phrases haven’t modified previous to the task of the definitive ranking in a fashion that might have affected the ranking. For additional info please see the issuer/deal web page for the respective issuer on https://scores.moodys.com.For any affected securities or rated entities receiving direct credit score help from the first entity(ies) of this credit standing motion, and whose scores might change on account of this credit standing motion, the related regulatory disclosures might be these of the guarantor entity. Exceptions to this method exist for the next disclosures, if relevant to jurisdiction: Ancillary Providers, Disclosure to rated entity, Disclosure from rated entity.The scores have been disclosed to the rated entity or its designated agent(s) and issued with no modification ensuing from that disclosure.These scores are solicited. Please confer with Moody’s Coverage for Designating and Assigning Unsolicited Credit score Rankings out there on its web site https://scores.moodys.com.Regulatory disclosures contained on this press launch apply to the credit standing and, if relevant, the associated ranking outlook or ranking assessment.Moody’s basic ideas for assessing environmental, social and governance (ESG) dangers in our credit score evaluation may be discovered at https://scores.moodys.com/paperwork/PBC_1288235.The International Scale Credit score Score on this Credit score Score Announcement was issued by certainly one of Moody’s associates exterior the EU and is endorsed by Moody’s Deutschland GmbH, An der Welle 5, Frankfurt am Most important 60322, Germany, in accordance with Artwork.four paragraph Three of the Regulation (EC) No 1060/2009 on Credit score Score Businesses. Additional info on the EU endorsement standing and on the Moody’s workplace that issued the credit standing is obtainable on https://scores.moodys.com.The International Scale Credit score Score on this Credit score Score Announcement was issued by certainly one of Moody’s associates exterior the UK and is endorsed by Moody’s Traders Service Restricted, One Canada Sq., Canary Wharf, London E14 5FA below the regulation relevant to credit standing businesses within the UK. Additional info on the UK endorsement standing and on the Moody’s workplace that issued the credit standing is obtainable on https://scores.moodys.com.REFERENCES/CITATIONS[1] Trustee report 05-Jul-2022[2] Trustee report 02-Jul-2021[3] Trustee report 05-Jul-2022[4] Trustee report 02-Jul-2021[5] Trustee report 02-Jul-2021Please see https://scores.moodys.com for any updates on modifications to the lead ranking analyst and to the Moody’s authorized entity that has issued the ranking.Please see the issuer/deal web page on https://scores.moodys.com for added regulatory disclosures for every credit standing. Yunjie Li Analyst Structured Finance Group Moody’s Traders Service, Inc. 250 Greenwich Road New York, NY 10007 U.S.A. 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