Press Release

DBRS Places Seal Rock Offshore Funding Under Review with Developing Implications

Structured Credit
April 06, 2009

DBRS has today placed the $900 Million Facility (the Facility) issued by Seal Rock Offshore Funding, L.L.C. (Seal Rock) Under Review with Developing Implications. The Facility is collateralized by a portfolio of U.S. high-yield corporate loans. The DBRS rating addresses Seal Rock’s ability to make timely payments of interest and full payment of principal on or before the Facility’s legal maturity date.

The Facility was initially assigned a DBRS rating on July 7, 2008.

Notes:
All figures are in U.S. dollars unless otherwise noted.

The applicable methodology is Rating Global High Yield Securitizations, Structured Loans, and Tranched Credit Derivatives, which can be found under our website under Methodologies.

This is a Structured Finance rating.

Ratings

Seal Rock Offshore Funding, L.L.C.
  • Date Issued:Apr 6, 2009
  • Rating Action:UR-Dev.
  • Ratings:AA (high) (sf)
  • Trend:--
  • Rating Recovery:
  • Issued:USE
  • US = Lead Analyst based in USA
  • CA = Lead Analyst based in Canada
  • EU = Lead Analyst based in EU
  • UK = Lead Analyst based in UK
  • E = EU endorsed
  • U = UK endorsed
  • Unsolicited Participating With Access
  • Unsolicited Participating Without Access
  • Unsolicited Non-participating

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