DBRS Ratings Limited Assigns Final Ratings to Quarzo Lease S.r.l.

DBRS Ratings Limited (DBRS) has today assigned final ratings of AAA (sf) to the Series A Asset-Backed Floating Rate Notes due 2037 issued by Quarzo Lease S.r.l. The Notes are backed by a portfolio of monetary claims and other connected rights arising under financial lease contracts governed by Italian law granted by SelmaBipiemme Leasing S.p.A. to small and medium size enterprises.

The ratings are based upon a review by DBRS of the following analytical considerations:

•The transaction structure and form and sufficiency of available credit enhancement. Credit enhancement is in the form of subordination, and excess spread. Credit enhancement levels are sufficient to support the ratings assigned.
•The ability of the transaction to withstand stressed cash flow assumptions and repay investors according to the terms on which they have invested.
•The transaction parties’ financial strength and capabilities with regards to originations, underwriting and servicing.
•The legal structure and presence of legal opinions addressing the assignment of the assets to the issuer and the consistency with the DBRS Legal Criteria for European Structured Finance Transactions.

Note:
All figures are in Euro unless otherwise noted.

The applicable methodologies are Rating European Consumer and Commercial Asset-Backed Securitisations and the Legal Criteria for European Structured Finance Transactions, which can be found on our website under Methodologies. Readers should also consider the DBRS commentary The Effect of Sovereign Risk on Securitisations in the Euro Area.

The sources of information used for these ratings include performance data relating to the receivables provided by Mediobanca in its capacity as an arranger for the transaction and DBRS considers the information available to it for the purposes of providing these ratings was of satisfactory quality.

This rating concerns a newly issued financial instrument.

This is the first DBRS rating on this financial instrument.

For additional information on this rating, please refer to the linking document located below.

Lead Analyst: Gareth Levington, Senior Vice Presidentt
Rating Committee Chair: Claire Mezzanotte
Initial Rating Date: 15 June 2011