KBRA Assigns Preliminary Ratings to Verdant Receivables 2024-1 LLC

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--KBRA assigns preliminary ratings to five classes of notes issued by Verdant Receivables 2024-1 LLC (Verdant 2024-1), an equipment ABS transaction.

Verdant Commercial Capital, LLC (Verdant or the Company) is a small- and medium-ticket independent equipment finance company founded in July 2017 and headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. Verdant employs a vendor model generating originations through relationships with original equipment manufacturers, distributors and resellers. Verdant 2024-1 represents the Company’s second public equipment ABS transaction. The Verdant 2024-1 transaction is secured by a portfolio of equipment lease and loan contracts, together with interests in the related equipment.

As of April 30, 2024, the pool of equipment contracts backing Verdant 2024-1 has an aggregate discounted contract balance of $319.65 million, based on the statistical discount rate of 8.75%. The aggregate discounted contract balance represents the aggregate present value of the expected cashflows on each contract, discounted at the individual contract rate. The initial cut-off date will be May 29, 2024. Verdant 2024-1 will issue five classes of notes, including a short-term money market tranche totaling $307.67 million. The Notes benefit from credit enhancement in the form of overcollateralization, a cash reserve, subordination benefiting senior classes, and excess spread.

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Methodologies

• ABS: Equipment Lease & Loan ABS Global Rating Methodology
  
• Structured Finance: Global Structured Finance Counterparty Methodology
  
• ESG Global Rating Methodology

Disclosures

Further information on key credit considerations, sensitivity analyses that consider what factors can affect these credit ratings and how they could lead to an upgrade or a downgrade, and ESG factors (where they are a key driver behind the change to the credit rating or rating outlook) can be found in the full rating report referenced above.

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