Rating Agency definition

Rating Agency means only those rating agencies that are engaged from time to time to rate the securities issued in connection with the Securitizations of the Notes.

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Rating Agency. Each of the Rating Agencies specified in the Preliminary Statement. If any such organization or a successor is no longer in existence, "Rating Agency" shall be such nationally recognized statistical rating organization, or other comparable Person, as is designated by the Depositor, notice of which designation shall be given to the Trustee. References herein to a given rating category of a Rating Agency shall mean such rating category without giving effect to any modifiers.

Rating Agency means each of S&P and ▇▇▇▇▇’▇, or if S&P or ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ or both shall not make a rating on the Notes publicly available, a nationally recognized statistical rating agency or agencies, as the case may be, selected by the Company which shall be substituted for S&P or ▇▇▇▇▇’▇, or both, as the case may be.

Examples of Rating Agency in a sentence

• Upon any resignation by such firm or removal of such firm by the Issuer, the Issuer (or the Collateral Manager on behalf of the Issuer) shall promptly appoint by Issuer Order delivered to the Collateral Trustee and the Rating Agency a successor thereto that shall also be a firm of Independent certified public accountants of recognized international reputation, which may be a firm of Independent certified public accountants that performs accounting services for the Issuer or the Collateral Manager.

• The Asset Manager may be removed for cause, on the 20th day after the date on which the Issuer or the Collateral Trustee, at the direction of a Supermajority of each Class of Debt (voting separately), delivers written notice, setting forth the cause of such removal, to the Asset Manager and the Rating Agency; provided, however, the Asset Manager shall have the opportunity to cure or remove the breach, event or other circumstances giving rise to such cause set forth in such removal notice.

• An Officer’s certificate of the Issuer to the effect that attached thereto is a true and correct copy of a letter signed by the Rating Agency then rating a Class of Secured Debt and confirming that each Class of Secured Debt has been assigned the applicable Initial Rating and that such ratings are in effect on the ClosingFirst Refinancing Date.

• A notice of redemption will be given by email, if available, and by first-class mail, postage prepaid, mailed not later than tenfive (105 ) Business Days prior to the applicable Redemption Date, to each Holder of Securities, at such Holder’s address in Register (and, in the case of Global Notes, delivered by electronic transmission to DTC), the Loan Register or the Share Register, as applicable, and the Rating Agency.

• This Agreement may not be modified or amended other than (i) by an agreement in writing executed by the parties hereto, and (ii) in respect of a modification or amendment which would, in the commercially reasonable judgment of the Asset Manager, have a material adverse effect on any Class of Rated Debt, if the consent of a Majority of the Controlling Class and Rating Agency Confirmation for such amendment or modification have been received.

More Definitions of Rating Agency

Rating Agency means (1) each of Fitch, Moody’s and S&P and (2) if Fitch, Moody’s or S&P ceases to rate the Notes for reasons outside of the Company’s control, a “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” as such term is defined in Section 3(a)(62) of the Exchange Act selected by the Company as a replacement agency for Fitch, Moody’s or S&P, as the case may be.

Rating Agency means each of S&P and ▇▇▇▇▇’▇.

Rating Agency. Each of Fitch and S&P. If either such organization or a successor is no longer in existence, "Rating Agency" shall be such nationally recognized statistical rating organization, or other comparable Person, as is designated by the Depositor, notice of which designation shall be given to the Trustee. References herein to a given rating or rating category of a Rating Agency shall mean such rating category without giving effect to any modifiers.

Rating Agency means each of S&P and Moody’s, or if S&P or Moody’s or both shall not make a rating on the Notes publicly available, a nationally recognized statistical rating agency or agencies, as the case may be, selected by the Company (as certified by a resolution of the Board of Directors) which shall be substituted for S&P or Moody’s, or both, as the case may be.

Rating Agency means (1) each of ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ and S&P and (2) if ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ or S&P ceases to rate the Notes for reasons outside of the Issuer’s control, a “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” within the meaning of Rule 15c3-1(c)(2)(vi)(F) under the Exchange Act selected by the Issuer or any Parent of the Issuer as a replacement agency for ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ or S&P, as the case may be.

Rating Agency means Moody's and Standard & Poor's.

Rating Agency means (1) each of Moody’s and S&P; and (2) if either of Moody’s or S&P ceases to rate the Notes or fails to make a rating of the Notes publicly available for reasons outside of the Company’s control, a “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” within the meaning of Rule 15c3-1(c)(2)(vi)(F) under the Exchange Act, selected by the Company (as certified by a Board Resolution) as a replacement agency for Moody’s or S&P, or both of them, as the case may be.