DBRS Morningstar Assigns Rating of BBB (low) to AltaGas Ltd.’s $550 Million Medium-Term Notes

DBRS Limited (DBRS Morningstar) assigned a rating of BBB (low) to AltaGas Ltd.’s (AltaGas or the Company) $550 million Medium-Term Notes offering (the Notes), which is composed of $350 million 1.227% Notes due March 18, 2024 (Series 24) and $200 million 2.166% Notes due March 16, 2027 (Series 25). The Notes carry a Stable trend. The rating assigned to the Notes is based on the rating of other outstanding series of the Notes.

AltaGas intends to use the net proceeds from the Notes to pay down existing indebtedness including, without limitation, indebtedness under AltaGas’ credit facility, fund working capital, and for general corporate purposes.

A description of how DBRS Morningstar considers ESG factors within the DBRS Morningstar analytical framework can be found in the DBRS Morningstar Criteria: Approach to Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk Factors in Credit Ratings at https://www.dbrsmorningstar.com/research/373262.

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All figures are in Canadian dollars unless otherwise noted.

The principal methodologies are Rating Companies in the Regulated Electric, Natural Gas, and Water Utilities Industry (October 27, 2020; https://www.dbrsmorningstar.com/research/368939), Rating Companies in the Pipeline and Diversified Energy Industry (November 19, 2020; https://www.dbrsmorningstar.com/research/370267), DBRS Morningstar Criteria: Rating Corporate Holding Companies and Parent/Subsidiary Rating Relationships (November 2, 2020; https://www.dbrsmorningstar.com/research/369167), and DBRS Morningstar Criteria: Preferred Share and Hybrid Security Criteria for Corporate Issuers (November 2, 2020; https://www.dbrsmorningstar.com/research/369165), which can be found on dbrsmorningstar.com under Methodologies & Criteria. Other applicable methodologies include the DBRS Morningstar Criteria: Approach to Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk Factors in Credit Ratings (February 3, 2021; https://www.dbrsmorningstar.com/research/373262).

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