Hexion Specialty Chemicals Corporate Credit Rating Lowered To 'B' On Debt-Funded Dividend Oct 06
Standard & Poors, October 2006
Abstract
NEW YORK (Standard & Poor's) Oct. 20, 2006--Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said today that it lowered its corporate credit rating on Hexion Specialty Chemicals Inc. to 'B' from 'B+'. The outlook is stable. We also lowered the rating on the existing $225 million first-lien senior secured revolving credit facility to 'B' from 'B+' and revised the recovery rating to '2' from '3'; this indicates our expectation for substantial recovery of principal in the event of a default. At the same time, we assigned a 'B' bank loan rating with a recovery rating of '2' to the company's proposed $2 billion first-lien senior secured term loan and $50 million first-lien synthetic letter of credit facility. The 'B' rating and recovery...
Companies mentioned in this report are: Momentive Specialty Chemicals Inc.
Action: Downgraded
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