BOSTON (S&P Global Ratings) May 11, 2016--S&P Global Ratings today lowered its issue-level rating on U.S. medical device developer and manufacturer Teleflex Inc.'s senior unsecured debt to 'BB' from 'BB+', one notch below our corporate credit rating on the company following issuance of $400 million senior unsecured notes due 2026. At the same time, we assigned a 'BB' rating to the new senior unsecured notes. The recovery rating on this debt is '5'. In addition, we revised our recovery rating on the company's existing unsecured debt to '5' from '4.' The '5' recovery rating indicates our expectations of modest (10%-30%; upper half of the range) recovery in the event of a payment default. We revised our recovery rating on Teleflex's