Dean Foods Company · Bankruptcy · 2019 · 6.500% Senior Notes due 2023
Does the instrument meet the Transferable characteristic?
Verified answer
Basis. No clause restricting transfer (such as a required issuer consent) was found in the documents. Rule 144A and Regulation S legends are disregarded under the Definitions.
Source clauses
Decided by absence: no clause restricting transfer (such as a required issuer consent) was found. Rule 144A and Regulation S legends are disregarded under the Definitions.How it was checked · 2 checks
- Rule re-applied. The Transferable 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).
- Absence confirmed. The record contains no clause restricting transfer (such as a required issuer consent); a separate heuristic extractor finds no such clause either.
Transferable
The obligation (other than a loan) must be transferable to institutional investors without any contractual, statutory or regulatory restriction; Rule 144A and Regulation S restrictions are disregarded, and consent requirements on loans are separate characteristics.
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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