Rating Downgrade means either:
Rating Downgrade means the credit rating previously assigned to the long-term, unsecured and unsubordinated indebtedness of the Issuer by any Rating Agency is (a) withdrawn or (b) is changed from investment grade to non-investment grade (for example, from BBB- to BB+ by Standard & Poor’s Rating Services, a division of The McGraw Hill Companies, Inc., or worse) or (c) if the credit rating previously assigned by the relevant Rating Agency was below investment grade, is lowered one rating notch (for example, from BB+ to BB by Standard & Poor’s Rating Services, a division of The McGraw Hill Companies, Inc.), and such Rating Agency shall have publicly announced or confirmed in writing to the Issuer that such withdrawal or downgrade is principally the result of any event or circumstance comprised in or arising as a result of, or in respect of, the Change of Control or potential Change of Control, the Material Subsidiary Winding-up Event or the Material Subsidiary Insolvency Event, or Issuer Winding-up Event, as the case may be;
Rating Downgrade shall be deemed to have occurred in respect of an NGET Restructuring Event if the rating assigned to the Rated Securities by any Rating Agency which is current immediately prior to the occurrence of an NGET Restructuring Event (whether provided by a Rating Agency at the invitation of NGET or by its own volition) is withdrawn or reduced from an investment grade rating (BBB-/Baa3, or their respective equivalents for the time being, or better) to a non-investment grade rating (BB+/Ba1, or their respective equivalents for the time being, or worse) or, if the Rating Agency shall have already rated the Rated Securities below investment grade (as described above), the rating is lowered one full rating category (from BB+/Ba1 to BB/Ba2 or such similar lowering) provided that a Rating Downgrade shall not be deemed to have occurred in respect of or as a result of a particular NGET Restructuring Event if the Rating Agency making the relevant reduction in rating or declining to assign a rating of at least investment grade as provided in these Conditions does not announce or publicly confirm, or otherwise inform the Trustee, that the reduction or declining was the result, in whole or part, of any event or circumstance comprised in or arising as a result of, or in respect of, the applicable NGET Restructuring Event;
Examples of Rating Downgrade in a sentence
Credit And Rating Downgrade Risk, Prepayment And Foreclosures Risk for Senior PTC Series, Prepayment And Foreclosures Risk for Senior PTC Series, Servicing Agent Risk, Co-mingling Risk, and Bankruptcy of the Seller.
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If a Change of Control Put Option is specified in the relevant Final Terms as being applicable and a Change of Control (as defined below) occurs and, during the Change of Control Period, a Rating Downgrade occurs (together, a Put Event), the holder of any such Note will have the option (the Change of Control Put Option) to require the Issuer to redeem or, at the Issuer’s option, to procure the purchase of such Notes on the Optional Redemption Date at the Change of Control Redemption Amount.
Reference Security Rating Downgrade Date:In relation to any Reference Security, five Business Days following the date on which a Reference Security Rating Downgrade Event has occurred.
For the purposes of this provision, "material adverse effect" will be deemed not to have occurred where no Rating Agency has announced a Rating Downgrade in respect of the Issuer or the Notes during the 90-day period following the announcement of a definitive agreement in respect of the relevant transaction, in each case to the extent ratings are assigned at the relevant time.
More Definitions of Rating Downgrade
Rating Downgrade means, in respect of any Change of Control, that the notes are, within the Change of Control Period in respect of such Change of Control, downgraded by both of the Rating Agencies to a non-investment grade credit rating (Ba1/BB+, or equivalent, or lower) and are not, within such Change of Control Period subsequently upgraded to an investment grade rating (Baa3/BBB-, or equivalent, or better) by both of the Rating Agencies.
Rating Downgrade means, in respect of any Change of Control, that the Notes are, within the Change of Control Period in respect of such Change of Control, downgraded by two of the Rating Agencies to a non-Investment Grade Rating (“Ba1”/“BB+”, or equivalent, or lower) and are not, within such Change of Control Period subsequently upgraded to an Investment Grade Rating by both such Rating Agencies; provided, however, that a Rating Downgrade otherwise arising by virtue of a particular reduction in rating will not be deemed to have occurred in respect of a particular Change of Control (and thus will not be deemed a Rating Downgrade for purposes of the definition of Change of Control Triggering Event) if the Rating Agencies making the reduction in rating to which this definition would otherwise apply do not announce or confirm to us in writing at our request that the reduction was the result, in whole or in part, of any event or circumstance comprised of or arising as a result of, or in respect of, the applicable Change of Control (whether or not the applicable Change of Control has occurred at the time of the Rating Downgrade).
Rating Downgrade means that the rating of the Notes or the Issuer which was assigned or existing as of the Rating Date by any Rating Agency is downgraded by at least one rating category below such rating of the Notes or, as appropriate, of the Issuer by such Rating Agency, and the official statement issued by such Rating Agency announcing the Rating Downgrade refers to the relevant transaction as a reason, in whole or in part, for such downgrade;
Rating Downgrade shall be deemed to have occurred if the rating assigned to the Notes by any Rating Agency (whether provided at the invitation of the Parent or the Issuer or of its own volition), which is current immediately before the time the Change of Control, (i) if Investment Grade, is either lowered by such Rating Agency such that it is no longer Investment Grade or withdrawn and not replaced by (or another existing rating is not reaffirmed with) an Investment Grade rating of another Rating Agency or, (ii) if below Investment Grade, is not raised to Investment Grade by such Rating Agency or withdrawn and not replaced by (or another existing rating is not reaffirmed with) an Investment Grade rating of another Rating Agency.
Rating Downgrade means a lowering by either Rating Agency of the then current credit rating of the Second Mortgage Notes.
Rating Downgrade means in connection with a Change of Control Triggering Event, the Sukuk cease to be rated Investment Grade by each of the two Rating Agencies rating the Sukuk on, or within six months after, the date of, or public notice of the occurrence of, a Change of Control or the intention by Axiata or any other person or persons to effect a Change of Control (which period shall be extended (by no more than an additional three months after the consummation of the Change of Control) so long as the rating of the Sukuk is under publicly announced consideration for possible downgrade by any of the Rating Agencies);
Rating Downgrade means any downgrade of the rating of the Issuer by a Rating Agency to below Investment Grade.