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Correction: Fitch Affirms Gorgons (European Loan Conduit No. 12).


LONDON -- (This is an amended version of a press release issued earlier today and contains revised tranche sizes.)

Fitch Ratings Fitch Ratings

An international rating agency for financial institutions, insurance companies, and corporate, sovereign, and municipal debt. Fitch Ratings has headquarters in New York and London and is wholly owned by FIMALAC of Paris.
, the international rating agency, has today affirmed all Classes of Gorgons (European Loan Conduit No. 12) FCC (1) (Federal Communications Commission, Washington, DC, www.fcc.gov) The U.S. government agency that regulates interstate and international communications including wire, cable, radio, TV and satellite. The FCC was created under the U.S.  ('ELoC 12') due August 2013 as follows:

EUR EUR

In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Euro.

Notes:
The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion.
200.1 million Class A (FR0000473068): 'AAA';

EUR30.0m Class B (FR0000473076): 'AA';

EUR30.0m Class C (FR0000473084): 'A';

ERU ERU Emergency Response Unit (Special Irish Police Unit)
ERU Emission Reduction Unit
ERU Eskie Rescuers United (Cedar Rapids, IA American Eskimo dog rescue)
ERU Energy Research Unit (UK) 
30.0m Class D (FR0000473092): 'BBB+';

EUR8.4m Class E1 (FR0000473100): 'BBB';

EUR11.3m Class E2 (FR0000473167): 'BBB';

EUR7.9m Class F (FR0000473118): 'BB+', and

EUR12.1m Class G (FR0000473126): 'BB'.

The affirmation follows the expected departure of tenant Credit Lyonais (17% of rent roll), now Calyon, in September 2005, representing 27,664 sq metres. The borrower has recently concluded a leasing of 4,200 sq metres of this space to Societe Generale and a leasing of 6,265 sq metres to ING Direct ING Direct is a branchless direct bank with operations in Austria, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom and the United States. ING Direct is part of the ING Group. It offers services over the Internet, phone or by mail. . The borrower is also talking to Noun 1. talking to - a lengthy rebuke; "a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"; "the teacher gave him a talking to"
lecture, speech

rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproof, reproval - an act or expression of criticism and censure; "he had to
 several parties regarding the remaining space to be vacated by Calyon. Although at closing of the transaction the Calyon lease represented about 50% of market rates, the presence of rent free periods and remaining vacant space will cause a significant reduction in ICR (Intelligent Character Recognition or Image Character Recognition) The machine recognition of hand-printed characters as well as machine printing that is difficult to recognize. . ICR is already down at 1.27x, compared to1.88x at closing. The main reason for the drop is an increase in the mortgage rate to 6.50% from 4.69%. The interest cost has increased to EUR5.6m in August 2005 from EUR3.9m in May 2003.

Nevertheless, in this current scenario it is likely that drawings will be made on the liquidity facility starting in May 2006 to cover for interest/ principal shortfalls when the scheduled principal payments increase to EUR1.9m per quarter from the current EUR245,000. In addition, there have been no delinquencies or defaults since closing in March 2003. As a result, the notes are affirmed. However, Fitch points out that a failure of the borrower to fill all Calyon space following this and any other vacancy would raise concerns and see a continuation of drawings on the EUR25m facility.

The six largest tenants occupy 83% of the space, with the largest now being Credit Foncier Cre`dit´ fon`cier´   

1. A company licensed for the purpose of carrying out improvements, by means of loans and advances upon real securities.
, who took the Editis space in November 2004. The current occupancy of Credit Foncier is 24% of rent roll.

As of August 2005, the loan balance was EUR337.1m with a weighted average loan-to-value (LTV LTV

See: Loan-to-value ratio
) of 78.8 %, down from 81.1% at closing. The occupancy rate Noun 1. occupancy rate - the percentage of all rental units (as in hotels) are occupied or rented at a given time
pct, per centum, percent, percentage - a proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred)
, by economic value, is 94.8%, at the same levels of the previous quarter.

Following the early break from Calyon and the impossibility to conclude a new lease for the same space by the 4 of August 2005, the originator allocated the amount credited to the reserve account for EUR7.0m, corresponding to the payments due from November 2004 to August 2005, to the repayments of the loan.

The Class G notes benefit from a 'turbo amortisation' for a maximum cumulative amount of EUR2.0m, generated by the excess cash over the priority amount, which includes all the fees payable to the servicer and the payments due under a swap agreement.

This transaction is the securitisation of a EUR340m commercial loan originated by Morgan Stanley (rated 'AA-'(AA minus)/'F1+' Rating Watch Negative) in France to finance the acquisition of a single office property, Zeus, located in the Bercy area of Paris, France. The property was acquired from Morgan Stanley Real Estate Fund by a special purpose vehicle established by Blackstone Group International Ltd.

Fitch will continue to monitor the performance of the transaction as well as the Paris office market in general. Surveillance for this transaction is available on the agency's subscription website, www.fitchresearch.com.

Fitch's rating definitions are available on the agency's public site, www.fitchratings.com. Published ratings, criteria and methodologies and relevant policies and procedures Policies and Procedures are a set of documents that describe an organization's policies for operation and the procedures necessary to fulfill the policies. They are often initiated because of some external requirement, such as environmental compliance or other governmental  are also available from this site, at all times. This document will remain on the public site for seven days.
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