Primus Guaranty, Ltd. (NYSE:PRS) (the “Company”) announced today that it
has been notified by NYSE Regulation, Inc. that it is not in compliance
with one of the continued listing standards of the New York Stock
Exchange (the “NYSE”). The Company is considered below criteria
established by the NYSE because the Company’s average closing price of
its shares of common stock was less than $1.00 for 30 consecutive
trading days. The NYSE currently makes available on its consolidated
tape an indicator, “.BC,” on the Company’s trading symbol indicating
that the Company is below the NYSE’s quantitative continued listing
standards.
In accordance with NYSE procedures, the Company must (i) acknowledge to
the NYSE receipt of the notification within 10 business days of receipt;
and (ii) bring its share price back above $1.00 within six months
following receipt of the notification. The Company intends to provide
NYSE Regulation, Inc. with the requisite acknowledgement and to take
such actions as may be necessary or appropriate in order to bring it
into compliance with the continued listing standards. Should the Company
fail to meet this standard at the expiration of the six-month period,
however, the NYSE will commence suspension and delisting procedures.
The Company’s 7% senior notes due 2036, listed on the NYSE under symbol
“PRD,” are not affected by this event.
About Primus Guaranty
Primus Guaranty, Ltd. is a Bermuda company, with its principal operating
subsidiaries, Primus Financial Products, LLC and Primus Asset
Management, Inc. Primus Financial Products provides protection against
the risk of default on corporate, sovereign and asset-backed security
obligations through the sale of credit swaps to dealers and banks.
Primus Asset Management provides credit portfolio management services to
Primus Financial Products, and manages private investment vehicles,
including two collateralized loan obligations and three synthetic
collateralized swap obligations for third parties.
Safe Harbor Statement
Some of the statements included in this press release and other
statements Primus Guaranty may make, particularly those anticipating
future financial performance, business prospects, growth and operating
strategies, market performance, valuations and similar matters, are
forward-looking statements that involve a number of assumptions, risks
and uncertainties, which change over time. For those statements, Primus
Guaranty claims the protection of the safe harbor for forward-looking
statements contained in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of
1995. Any such statements speak only as of the date they are made, and
Primus Guaranty assumes no duty to, and does not undertake to, update
any forward-looking statements. Actual results could differ materially
from those anticipated in forward-looking statements, and future results
could differ materially from historical performance. For a discussion of
the factors that could affect the company's actual results please refer
to the risk factors identified from time to time in the company's SEC
reports, including, but not limited to, Primus Guaranty's Annual Report
on Form 10-K, as filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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