KBRA Assigns Preliminary Ratings to Crescendo Royalty Funding LP

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA) assigns preliminary ratings to one class of notes issued by Crescendo Royalty Funding LP (“Crescendo”), a music royalty ABS transaction.

This transaction is Northleaf Capital Partners’ first music royalty securitization. The proceeds will be used to repay the Issuer’s existing financing, pay transaction fees and expenses, and fund transaction accounts. An independent third-party valuation firm has valued the Catalog at $467.4 million. This valuation does not give any credit to revenue generated by name, image, and likeness (NIL) rights. The Catalog income is composed of publishing rights, sound recording rights, futures, and administration rights.

The transaction has only one class of Notes. The Notes pay interest on a quarterly basis and are not scheduled to pay down principal prior to the anticipated repayment date (ARD) in five years (December 2026). Prior to the ARD, the only required principal is to maintain compliance with the borrowing base which is a function of the Notes’ advance rate and the collateral value derived from the present value of the valuation agent’s annually updated valuation.

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