KBRA Affirms the Ratings for RRE 16 Loan Management DAC
3 Oct 2024 | London
KBRA UK (KBRA) affirms the ratings for eight classes of notes and one of loans issued by RRE 16 Loan Management DAC. All notes and a loan have received timely interest distributions since the transaction has closed.
RRE 16 Loan Management DAC is a €499.4 million European cash flow CLO managed by Redding Ridge Asset Management (UK) LLP (“RRAM UK” or the “collateral manager”), an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Redding Ridge Asset Management LLC (“RRAM”). RRAM UK is a UK-based subsidiary of Redding Ridge Asset Management LLC, an independent asset management company established and seeded by Apollo Global Credit Management, LLC (Apollo) in 2016 to manage CLOs. The RRAM UK management arm currently manages more than €7 billion in assets across seventeen European CLOs.
The CLO closed in December 2023 and has currently a 3.6-year reinvestment period remaining. The ratings reflect current credit enhancement levels, excess spread, coverage tests including par value and interest coverage tests, and a reinvestment overcollateralization test.
The collateral in RRE 16 Loan Management DAC mainly consists of broadly syndicated leveraged loans issued by corporate obligors diversified across sectors. As of the August 2024 trustee report, the aggregate principal balance of the collateral obligations is €500.7 million and a principal proceeds balance of €0.5 million. There are no defaulted or discount obligations in the portfolio and the transaction is in compliance with all portfolio profile tests. The current portfolio K-WARF is 2583, which represents a weighted average portfolio assessment of around B.
Since closing, the Class A Par Value Test has increased to 142.19% from 141.84%. The ratings on the Class X, A-1, A-2 Notes and Class A-1 Facilities consider the timely payment of interest and ultimate payment of principal by the applicable stated maturity date, while the ratings on the Class B-1, B-2, C-1, C-2 and D Notes consider the ultimate payment of interest and principal by the applicable stated maturity date.
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