DBRS Morningstar Assigns Credit Ratings of BB (high) with a Stable Trend to Morguard Corporation’s CAD 175 Million 9.500% Series H Senior Unsecured Debentures

DBRS Limited (DBRS Morningstar) assigned a credit rating of BB (high) with a Stable trend to Morguard Corporation’s (Morguard) CAD 175 million 9.500% Series H Senior Unsecured Debentures, due September 26, 2026 (the Series H Debentures). The credit rating assigned to this newly issued debt instrument is based on the rating of an already-outstanding series of the above-mentioned debt instrument.

The Series H Debentures are direct senior unsecured obligations of Morguard and rank equally and rateably with one another and with all other unsecured and unsubordinated nonconsolidated indebtedness of Morguard, except to the extent prescribed by law.

DBRS Morningstar understands the net proceeds from the offering will be used toward the repayment on maturity of the $175 million principal amount of its 4.402% Series G Senior Unsecured Debentures, due September 28, 2023.

ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL, GOVERNANCE CONSIDERATIONS
There were no Environmental/Social/Governance factors that had a significant or relevant effect on the credit analysis.

A description of how DBRS Morningstar considers ESG factors within the DBRS Morningstar analytical framework can be found in the DBRS Morningstar Criteria: Approach to Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk Factors in Credit Ratings at https://www.dbrsmorningstar.com/research/416784 (July 4, 2023).

Notes:
All figures are in Canadian dollars unless otherwise noted.

DBRS Morningstar applied the following principal methodologies:
-- Global Methodology for Rating Entities in the Real Estate Industry (April 11, 2023), https://www.dbrsmorningstar.com/research/412477

-- DBRS Morningstar Global Criteria: Recovery Ratings for Non-Investment-Grade Corporate Issuers (August 30, 2023), https://www.dbrsmorningstar.com/research/420063

The credit rating methodologies used in the analysis of this transaction can be found at: https://www.dbrsmorningstar.com/about/methodologies.

A description of how DBRS Morningstar analyzes corporate finance transactions and how the methodologies are collectively applied can be found at: https://www.dbrsmorningstar.com/research/397223.

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