GreensLedge takes reins and maps out Deerpath CLO
Deerpath Capital on Monday priced its second middle market CLO of the year, named Deerpath CLO 2021-2

Muzinich adds UK and Ireland institutional sales head
Muzinich & Co has hired a head institutional sales for the UK and Ireland

Mid market CLO league tables: deal record breaks as Wells Fargo gains new issue lead
The mid market CLO space had a record-breaking month in November on three counts

AB sharply tightens mid-market CLO debt stack with refi
AB Private Credit Investors (formerly AllianceBernstein) has refinanced  debt tranches from late 2020 mid-market CLO, greatly narrowing spreads in the capital stack

Mount Logan adds junior debt in reset of 2018 mid-market CLO
Mount Logan has reset a Us mid-market CLO it signed in 2018, increasing the size of the deal and shaving the cost of the capital stack and adding junior tranches

Golub prices second billion dollar and second-largest CLO of 2021
Golub Capital has priced the second largest CLO of 2021

Angelo Gordon keeps hold of mezz tranches with mid market CLO
Angelo Gordon has moved into middle market CLOs by printing its first deal backed by loans to middle market companies. The firm retained all junior and mezzanine liabilities in a deal that appears not to carry a public rating

Amundi replaces European loan head and appoints deputy
Amundi has shaken up the hierarchy of its loan business with a personnel shuffle at the top

Antares and Palmer Square give new life to legacy CLOs via resets
Antares Capital Management and Palmer Square Capital Management each reset a CLO on Tuesday, with the two deals worth a combined $964.8 million

Maranon prints first new issue of year with Wells Fargo
Maranon Capital on Monday evening priced its first new issue CLO of the year, via Wells Fargo

Bain and Blue Owl upsize middle market CLOs with resets
Bain Capital Credit and Blue Owl Capital each reset a middle market CLO on Monday, with both managers opting to upsize their vehicles without changing the equity tranche sizes

Barings jostles cap stack with mid-market CLO reset
Barings has reset a middle market CLO it signed in 2017, increasing the overall size of the deal slightly with a shift in weighting between the single A minus and triple B minus pieces

Fidelity appoints former CVC official as global head of private assets solutions
Fidelity has hired from CVC to a newly created role of global head of private assets solutions, following the expansion of its private credit businesses earlier this year

Angelo Gordon unit set to break into mid market CLOs
Twin Brook Capital Partners is preparing its first middle market CLO, in a move which would put Angelo Gordon alongside Blackstone as the firms with the most rounded CLO businesses

Guggenheim prints first new CLO in 18 months
Guggenheim Investments on Thursday issued its first new CLO in over 18 months

Credit Fundraising: Private credit and CLO captive equity feature strongly as closes mount up
Credit funds have made a fair start to the fourth quarter, although the $21 billion raised during October is down substantially on September’s impressive record for 2021

Credit funds at a glance (November 2021)
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit

Niche credit funds make mid-market flexibility count
Funds that have the flexibility to invest in mid-cap debt issuers prospered in September, amid the usual swarm of outperforming CLO funds

FCA draws up new fund structure for long-term assets
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority has finalised a new fund structure that is designed to make it easier for defined contribution pension plans to invest in long-term assets

Hayfin creates head of ESG role in London
Hayfin Capital Management says it has hired a head of ESG. This is a newly-created role, but Hayfin says it has “well-established environmental, social and governance capabilities”

LP round up: no Stoptober as investors allocate $5 billion to credit
US institutional investors allocated $5 billion to credit funds in October, with Oak Hill and Pimco among the biggest mandates    

Alcentra appoints liquid credit PM as head of responsible investing
Alcentra has built out a dedicated responsible investing team and has appointed its liquid credit portfolio manager to the newly created role of head of responsible investing

Bennett Goodman's Hunter Point buys stake in MidOcean
Hunter Point, which was launched by Blackstone Credit’s co-founder Bennett Goodman alongside Avi Kalichstein in 2020, has made its first investment and bought a minority stake in mid-market specialist MidOcean

Capital One scores first solo CLO arranging credit for Brightwood Capital
Captial One Securities has priced its first CLO as sole placement agent by arranging a middle market deal for Brightwood Advisors

Credit Rendezvous: Credit spins full circle
The third quarter was massive in terms of volumes with CLOs, high yield, leverage loans and private equity registering record issuance. But credit spreads were up and down as inflation fears, crackdowns in China and rising coronavirus cases became catalysts for risk-off sentiment in July and September