US BSL CLO Rankings - February 2024 YTD
Our latest rankings for the US BSL CLO market, including arranger and manager league tables

Tightest European new issue CLO this year prices
European new issue spreads for 2024 nudged down to a new benchmark on Tuesday, with the triple-As hitting 147bps

Debut manager makes second issuance a delayed drawing
One year after its European debut, Canyon Partners last week priced the delayed-draw tranche from that inaugural Euro CLO

CVC keeps it tight for new European CLO
CVC Credit Partners hit a milestone on Thursday when it priced CVC Cordatus Loan Fund XXX, which matched this year's benchmark AAA spreads

CLO round-up: February 2024
Our roundup of all the action in another spectacular month for the CLO market

Chenavari returns to European CLO market after two-year absence
Chenavari Credit Partners returned to the primary market on Thursday for the first time in two years with a new European CLO valued at EUR 409.5m

LP CLO investor returns to Accunia
A veteran CLO investor has announced he is returning to Copenhagen-based Accunia Credit Management, where he will be Head of Investments

Boutique manager chimes in with second European CLO
Signal Capital Partners last week became the latest manager to add to the burgeoning issuance in the European primary CLO market with an upsized EUR 450m new issue deal

Unfunded single-B issuance steps up as Bridgepoint triggers class F note
Bridgepoint Capital Management this week became the latest in a string of managers to price a delayed-draw tranche in 2024

Palmer Square stays still for latest European deal
Static deals made a reappearance in the primary market yesterday, when Palmer Square Capital Management priced a new European CLO in conjunction with JPMorgan

Missing Milbank CLO team surfaces at rival law firm
A global law firm has announced the arrival of veteran European CLO lawyer John Goldfinch, one of the partners who pushed Milbank to the top of our European manager counsel league tables last year

Deadline nears for 16th Creditflux Manager Awards submissions
The deadline for entries to the 16th annual Creditflux Manager Awards is closing in, with entries accepted until Thursday 22nd February.

Second European delayed draw tranche prices
Five Arrows Managers priced the delayed-draw single-B tranche of 2023’s Contego CLO XI on Thursday, marking the second such deal of 2024

CLOs at a glance
CLOs at a glance

Troubled European name reaches end-game
The long-running saga of French mass-market retail group Casino Guichard-Perrachon appears to be nearly over as the firm filed for Chapter 15 recognition in the US

Fresh wave of CLO calls looms as US equity distributions drop
Equity distributions for US CLOs outside their reinvestment period continue to fall as prepayments cut into cashflows

AlbaCore joins European renaissance with new CLO
European credit specialist AlbaCore Capital priced its latest new-issue European CLO on Tuesday, its sixth deal in this asset class

UK-based manager looks to restart European infra CLO market
RM Funds, an Edinburgh-based infrastructure debt investor, is looking to launch the first European infrastructure CLO since 2008

European CLO market stirs as first refi of the year prices
BNP Paribas injected some life into the sluggish European CLO market on Monday with the first European refi of the year

Partners Group follows KKR below 150 for new European CLO
Partners Group has followed KKR in dipping below the 150 level for European triple-As, with a new issue arranged by JP Morgan weighing in at EUR 403.4m on Wednesday

CVC reissues structured financing facility as a full European CLO
The beginning of February saw something unusual in the CLO market – a reissue of the CVC Cordatus Opportunity Loan Fund, undertaken by CVC Credit Partners.

European triple As drop below 150 as KKR prices new CLO
The somewhat limp activity in the European primary market so far in 2024 was given a kick along on Friday with the pricing of Avoca CLO XXIX, a new EUR 402.85m BSL CLO from KKR

Fried Frank pushes into securitization with veteran hire in London
Fried Frank has announced that securitization veteran Cameron Mitcham has joined the firm as a partner in London. He is well known to the CLO and structured finance industry from his role as a partner at Dechert

European CLO Rankings - January 2024
Our latest rankings for the European CLO market, including arranger and manager league tables