We derive the exact asymptotics ofwhere (X 1 (t), X 2 (s)) t,s≥0 is a correlated two-dimensional Brownian motion with correlation ρ ∈ [−1, 1] and µ 1 , µ 2 > 0. It appears that the play between ρ and µ 1 , µ 2 leads to several types of asymptotics. Although the exponent in the asymptotics as a function of ρ is continuous, one can observe different types of prefactor functions depending on the range of ρ, which constitute a phase-type transition phenomena.