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Dean Foods Company · Bankruptcy · 2019 · 6.500% Senior Notes due 2023

Does the instrument meet the Maximum Maturity characteristic (30 years)?

Question 2 · Deliverable Obligation Characteristic

Verified answer

Yes

Basis. Matures 2023-03-15: from any Delivery Date after the 2019-11-12 credit event, the remaining maturity is within the 30-year Maximum Maturity.

Source clauses

Indenture of 2015-02-25

How it was checked · 2 checks
  • Rule re-applied. The Maximum Maturity rule (v1.0), re-applied to the stored facts, gives the same result as the code-only Mastermind v3 run of 2026-09-25 (deterministic extraction, no model).
  • Quote verified. The clause quoted for the maturity date appears verbatim in the cited section.

Maximum Maturity

The obligation's remaining maturity, measured from the Delivery Date, must not exceed the Maximum Maturity (30 years by default). CDSBench measures it from the credit event date, which is conservative: any later Delivery Date only shortens the remaining maturity.

These checks are CDSBench's provisional reading of the 2014 ISDA Credit Derivatives Definitions, not legal advice.

Instrument: 6.500% Senior Notes due 2023

Source documents

The case record. Sections behind the verified answer are marked.

  • DOC-1 Dean Foods 8-K filed 2019-11-12, Item 1.03 Bankruptcy (and Item 2.04), petition 2019-11-12excerpts
  • DOC-2 Indenture dated February 25, 2015, 6.500% Senior Notes due 2023 (EX-4.1)excerpts

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