Z Capital makes three senior leveraged credit hires including CLO specialists
Z Capital Credit has hired three directors to its investment team

Mid market CLO sales explode with BlackRock, Churchill and Monroe printing deals
Middle market CLO sales flared on Friday, with managers pricing three deals worth a combined $1.2 billion

Antares upsizes billion-dollar CLO in third-largest primary transaction of 2022
Antares Capital reset its 2018-2 CLO via Deutsche Bank on Thursday, in the third-largest primary market transaction of the year at $1.06 billion

Deerpath senior CLO tranche reaches 195bp to shed light on mid-market pricing
Deerpath Capital Management has revealed mid-market CLO pricing levels in the primary market after disclosing discount margins on its new issue, which priced on Monday 

AB upsizes 2019 mid market CLO by $48 million with reset
AB has reset its 2019 middle market CLO named ABPCI Direct Lending Fund CLO VI, upsizing the deal by $47.4 million including $7.72 million new equity

Credit funds at a glance (April 2022)
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit  

StepStone sets out new path with Mexican securitisation
StepStone Group says its securitisation of private credit opportunities for Mexican investors has left a template for other managers to follow.

GoldenTree sprouts up in North Carolina
GoldenTree Asset Management has opened a new office in Charlotte

Trade finance specialist sentenced to 12 years in prison for CLO and fund fraud
David Hu, the former chief investment officer of International Investment Group, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for his role in running a “Ponzi-like scheme”, which included using a CLO to create fraudulent loans.  

Mid market CLO league tables: $1.1 billion Golub deal shuffles the pack
Mid market CLO issuance slowed last month amid market volatility with just one new issue and two resets pricing in March, worth a combined $1.9 billion

Cerberus shows CLO price movement with first new mid market deal of 2022
Cerberus Loan Management on Friday priced its first new middle market CLO of the year

Golub mid-market CLO upsizes to over $1 billion after reset
SMBC Nikko has reset a middle market CLO for Golub Capital Partners, taking the deal size up beyond $1 billion in the process, sources say

MidOcean announces promotions in credit business
Two portfolio managers are among those to earn promotion at MidOcean Partners 

Owl Rock doubles size of 2020 mid market CLO with reset
Owl Rock Capital has more than doubled the size of its late 2020 CLO named Owl Rock CLO V after resetting the deal on Monday,

Chicago pension seeks private credit manager
Direct lending, structured credit, distressed/special situations, specialty finance, and multi-strategy funds will be considered

First Eagle brings first new mid-market CLO since start of Ukraine crisis
First Eagle Investment Management has priced the first new middle market CLO since Russia's invasion of Ukraine sparked high volatility in the credit market

MKP partner joins Orchard in new global distribution role
Orchard Global Asset Management has hired an experienced figure from MKP Capital in the newly created role of global head of distribution and investor relations

Mid market CLO league tables: diamonds are for 2019 and BCRED is for now
Middle market CLO issuance is off to a fast pace in 2022 as a busy February welcomed three new issue CLOs and three resets – adding $3.8 billion to this year’s tally of $4.39 billion

LP round up: Fidelity wins big, Pacific retains loan mandate, pensions eye distressed
The month also included one CLO fund commitment, one high yield manager search, one finalised US loans mandate and one $400 million multi-sector fixed income managed account mandate

Spac pricing hints at Sound Point's growth ambitions in loan market
Sound Point Acquisition Corp has priced a $225 million IPO, signalling that credit asset manager Sound Point Capital Management is looking to expand its platform

Credit funds at a glance (March 2022)
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit

AB targets software companies after niche securitisation
Deutsche Bank priced an unusual securitisation for AB last month. The deal accommodates the manager’s expertise in the software and technology sector

Churchill names Wells Fargo official to newly created head of fund finance role
Churchill Asset Management has created the new role of head of fund finance to help it utilise leverage strategically across its fund strategies

MidCap doubles size of 2018 CLO with reset
MidCap Financial almost doubled the size of its 2018 CLO named Woodmont 2018-4 Trust by resetting the deal via Deutsche Bank on Friday