Dean Foods Company · Bankruptcy · 2019 · 6.500% Senior Notes due 2023
Is the issuer of the instrument the Reference Entity?
Verified answer
Basis. Issuer "Dean Foods Company" matches the Reference Entity.
Source clauses
No clause citedHow it was checked · 2 checks
- Rule re-applied. The Issuer matches Reference Entity 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).
- Name found in the documents. No clause is quoted for the issuer: it is the issuer named for this bond when the case was set up, and the name Dean Foods Company appears in every document of the record.
Issuer matches Reference Entity
The obligation must be an obligation of the Reference Entity: issued by it (alone, or as a co-issuer jointly and severally liable for the whole amount), or guaranteed by it under a Qualifying Guarantee. When the Reference Entity guarantees another issuer's obligation, this test is assisted review: CDSBench reports the guarantee findings (see Qualifying Guarantee) and leaves the decision to the reviewer. A successor needs separate analysis.
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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