Credit Rating With respect to the Competitive Supplier or Competitive Supplier’s Guarantor, its senior unsecured, unsubordinated long-term debt rating, not supported by third party credit enhancement, and if such debt is no longer rated, then the corporate or long-term issuer rating of Competitive Supplier or Competitive Supplier’s Guarantor.
Credit Ratings Use commercially reasonable efforts to maintain at all times (a) a credit rating by each of S&P and Xxxxx’x in respect of the Term Facility and (b) a public corporate rating by S&P and a public corporate family rating by Xxxxx’x for the Borrower, in each case with no requirement to maintain any specific minimum rating.
Debt Rating The Liquidity Provider has a short-term debt ratings of “P-1” from Xxxxx’x and “F1+” from Fitch.
Debt Ratings Prompt notice of any change in its Debt Ratings.
Required Ratings The Offered Certificates shall have received Required Ratings of at least [ ] from [ ].
No Material Adverse Change or Ratings Agency Change For the period from and after the date of this Agreement and through and including the First Closing Date and, with respect to any Optional Shares purchased after the First Closing Date, each Option Closing Date:
(i) in the judgment of the Representatives there shall not have occurred any Material Adverse Change; and
(ii) there shall not have occurred any downgrading, nor shall any notice have been given of any intended or potential downgrading or of any review for a possible change that does not indicate the direction of the possible change, in the rating accorded any securities of the Company or any of its subsidiaries by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” as that term is used in Rule 15c3-1(c)(2)(vi)(F) under the Exchange Act.
Ratings Event Upon the occurrence of a Ratings Event (as defined below) Party A has not, within 10 days after such rating withdrawal or downgrade (unless, within 10 days after such withdrawal or downgrade, each such Swap Rating Agency has reconfirmed the rating of the Swap Certificates which was in effect immediately prior to such withdrawal or downgrade (determined without regard to any financial guaranty insurance policy, if applicable), unless the rating of the Swap Certificates were changed due to a circumstance other than the withdrawal or downgrading of Party A's (or its Credit Support Provider's) rating), complied with one of the solutions listed below, then an Additional Termination Event shall have occurred with respect to Party A and Party A shall be the sole Affected Party with respect to such Additional Termination Event. It shall be a ratings event ("Ratings Event") if at any time after the date hereof Party A shall fail to satisfy the Swap Counterparty Ratings Threshold. Swap Counterparty Ratings Threshold shall mean that both (A) the unsecured, long-term senior debt obligations of Party A (or its Credit Support Provider) are rated at least "BBB-" by S&P, and (B) either (i) the unsecured, long-term senior debt obligations of Party A (or its Credit Support Provider) are rated at least "A2" by Moody's (including if such rating is on watch for possible downgrade) and the unsecured, short-term debt obligations of Party A (or its Credit Support Provider) are rated at least "P-1" by Moody's (including if such rating is on watch for possible downgrade) or (ii) if Party A (or its Credit Support Provider) does not have a short-term rating from Moody's, the unsecured, long-term senior debt obligations of Party A (or its Credit Support Provider) are rated at least "A1" by Moody's (including if such rating is on watch for possible downgrade).
Rating Agency Downgrade In the event that BSFP’s long-term unsecured and unsubordinated debt rating is withdrawn or reduced below “AA-” by S&P or its long-term unsecured and unsubordinated debt rating is withdrawn or reduced below “Aa3” by Moody’s (and together with S&P and Fitch, the “Swap Rating Agencies”, and such rating thresholds, “Approved Rating Thresholds”), then within 30 days after such rating withdrawal or downgrade, BSFP shall, subject to the Rating Agency Condition, at its own expense, either (i) cause another entity to replace BSFP as party to this Agreement that meets or exceeds the Approved Rating Thresholds and that is approved by Radian Insurance Inc. and Financial Guaranty Insurance Company (each a “NIMS Insurer” and collectively, the “NIMS Insurers”) (which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld) on terms substantially similar to this Agreement, (ii) obtain a guaranty of, or a contingent agreement of another person with the Approved Rating Thresholds, to honor, BSFP’s obligations under this Agreement; provided that such other person is approved by the NIMS Insurers, such approval not to be unreasonably withheld, (iii) post collateral satisfactory to each Swap Rating Agency and the NIMS Insurers which will be sufficient to restore the immediately prior ratings of the Certificates and any note insured by the NIMS Insurers, or (iv) establish any other arrangement satisfactory to the Swap Rating Agencies and the NIMS Insurers, which will be sufficient to restore the immediately prior ratings of the Certificates and any note insured by the NIMS Insurers. For purposes of this provision, “Rating Agency Condition” means, with respect to any particular proposed act or omission to act hereunder that the party acting or failing to act must consult with any of the Swap Rating Agencies then providing a rating of the Certificates and receive from the Swap Rating Agencies a prior written confirmation that the proposed action or inaction would not cause a downgrade or withdrawal of the then-current rating of the Certificates.
No Ratings There are no securities or preferred stock of or guaranteed by the Company or any of its subsidiaries that are rated by a “nationally recognized statistical rating organization,” as such term is defined under Section 3(a)(62) under the 1934 Act.
Change of Control/Change in Management (i) During any period of twelve (12) consecutive months ending on each anniversary of the Agreement Date, individuals who at the beginning of any such 12-month period constituted the Board of Trustees of the Parent Guarantor (together with any new trustees whose election by such Board or whose nomination for election by the shareholders of the Parent Guarantor was approved by a vote of a majority of the trustees then still in office who were either trustees at the beginning of such period or whose election or nomination for election was previously so approved) cease for any reason to constitute a majority of the Board of Trustees of the Parent Guarantor then in office;
(ii) Any “person” or “group” (as such terms are used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)), is or becomes the “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act, except that a Person will be deemed to have “beneficial ownership” of all securities that such Person has the right to acquire, whether such right is exercisable immediately or only after the passage of time), directly or indirectly, of more than 35% of the total voting power of the then outstanding voting stock of the Parent Guarantor;
(iii) The Parent Guarantor shall cease to own and control, directly or indirectly, at least a majority of the outstanding Equity Interests of the Borrower; or
(iv) The Parent Guarantor or a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor shall cease to be the sole general partner of the Borrower or shall cease to have the sole and exclusive power to exercise all management and control over the Borrower.
