New York, September 12, 2016 -- Moody's Investors Service, ("Moody's") said Windstream Services, LLC's ("Windstream" or "the company") proposed $100 million add-on to its Term Loan B will have no immediate impact to its ratings. The transaction is credit positive in that it improves the company's maturity profile and lowers interest expense. The proceeds of the debt raise will be used to redeem a portion Windstream's outstanding notes due in November of 2017. Moody's expects any balance of the 2017 notes which remain outstanding after the proposed transaction to be retired using availability under Windstream's revolving credit facility. Redemption of the 2017 notes improves Windstream's maturity profile and the proposed coincident term loan reprice will improve interest costs and free cash flow.

Vollständigen Artikel bei Moodys lesen