LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE) – The Kroll Bond Rating Agency UK Limited (KBRA) assigns preliminary ratings to five classes of debt securities to be issued by RRE 6 Loan Management DAC, a Cash Flow Collateralized Loan Obligation (CLO), which is mainly funded by a diversified portfolio of in euros Denominated company is covered by loans and bonds.
RRE 6 Loan Management DAC is administered by Redding Ridge Asset Management (UK) LLP (“RRAM UK” or the “Collateral Manager”). The CLO has a reinvestment period of 4.1 years and a legal final of 14.1 years. Ratings reflect initial levels of credit improvement, coverage testing including face and interest coverage testing, excess spread, and a reinvestment test for reinvestments.
The collateral in RRE 6 Loan Management DAC will mainly consist of broadly syndicated leveraged loans and bonds issued by corporate borrowers who are diversified across industries. The nominal amount of the target portfolio is € 400.0 million with commitments in 123 debtors. The debtors in the portfolio have a K-WARF of 2643, which corresponds to a weighted average portfolio estimate of approximately B. Due to the economic impact of COVID-19, we expect pressure on the credit quality of the entire portfolio. Hence, it is likely that the portfolio’s K-WARF will increase in the near future. KBRA considered the impact of a possible credit migration.
RRAM UK is a UK based subsidiary of Redding Ridge Asset Management LLC, an independent asset management company founded and established in 2016 by Apollo Global Credit Management, LLC (Apollo) to manage CLOs. RRAM UK’s management currently manages EUR 2.4 billion in assets in six European CLOs.
The ratings of the A-1 and A-2 bonds take into account the timely payment of interest and the final payment of principal by the respective specified due date, while the ratings of the B, C and D bonds take into account the final payment of interest and Client.
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