Mid market CLO league tables: Antares and Wells Fargo press reset to lead market
Following March's $5.87 billion, the busiest month of mid market CLO issuance since at least 2016, April felt like a quiet month for mid market CLOs with $2.26 billion pricing across three new issues, two resets and one partial refinancing

Euro CLO league tables: cramming a year's worth of work in two months
It is no surprise the European CLO market has been experiencing fatigue at times this year with the last two months of issuance alone almost equalling issuance figures for the whole of 2020: last year €22.78 billion worth of European CLOs priced, while in March and April 2021, managers brought €21.48 billion to market

US CLO league tables: CSAM and JP Morgan lead the way as refis take over
For the third straight month US CLO issuance topped $35 billion, with $22.9 billion of the $35.9 billion in April coming from repricings

Global CLO league tables - April 2021 YTD
Global CLO league tables - April 2021 YTD

Structurers tempted by buy-side perks amid CLO bonanza
Do you have experience structuring CLOs? If the answer is yes, then your skills are in demand, with asset managers keen to add CLO capital markets specialists amid the onslaught of CLO transactions that have taken place this year

First Eagle CLO notches up highest control equity trade on b-wic since at least 2017
The fourth control position in a US CLO was listed yesterday at 12pm EST (5pm UK time) as $33.43 million of Wind River 2017-4, a First Eagle managed CLO, was up for sale along with two other US CLO equity items

Canyon joins exclusive group of 2020 CLO resetters with upsized deal
Canyon Partners became one of the early resetters of a 2020 CLO on Friday, upsizing the deal by $165.5 million in the process

Sound Point resets inaugural European CLO with tight triple As
Sound Point Capital Management has reset its inaugural European CLO via Citi

It’s all relative: the Cornetto trilogy of CLO triple Bs
CLO arrangers have let their imaginations run wild when assembling triple-B rated notes – not because these have been tricky to shift, but because there is appetite for triple B CLOs that don't taste vanilla. The result is fat, split and overlapping triple Bs 

Market absorbs three CLO refinancings worth $1 billion
Apex Credit Partners, Barings and Voya Investment Management have each refinanced a CLO, with the three deals totalling $1.02 billion

NIBC takes ESG-scored European CLO tally to two with strong execution
NIBC has priced its latest ESG-branded European CLO, North Westerly VII

Record-breaking Apollo and Blackstone European CLOs make first distributions
Two 2020 CLOs managed by Blackstone Credit and Redding Ridge (Apollo) that set equity cover records in the secondary CLO market earlier this year have made their first payments

Gulf Stream takes CLOs under management to almost $2 billion
Gulf Stream Asset Management has issued its fourth CLO since reentering the market in 2020, bringing its total deals under management up to $1.9 billion

PGIM cuts 2017 CLO's funding costs by 32.2bp with refi
PGIM teamed up with Goldman Sachs to refinance 2019's Dryden CLO 72 on Thursday, reducing the deal's funding costs by 32.17 basis points in the process

AB and NXT reset middle market CLOs
AB Private Credit Investors and NXT Capital both reset middle market CLOs on Thursday with the two deals adding a further $740.8 million to primary market supply

Capza closes €1.6 billion private debt fund 75% deployed
The European Investment Fund is among the investors in the fund, according to Debtwire Funds Data

CLO pipeline: and breathe... issuance splurge clears the backlog
Over 20 deals remain in the CLO pipeline, despite a glut of issuance last week in which 38 transactions priced, totalling $18.1 billion

Morgan Stanley flies the banner for Brigade and Maranon new CLOs
Morgan Stanley printed two new CLOs this week after scoring mandates from Brigade Capital Management and Maranon Capital

Oak Hill scores April's largest US CLO
Oak Hill Advisors returned to the primary market on Wednesday to issue the largest new US CLO of the month

ICG upsizes CLO with rare four-year reset
Intermediate Capital Group has priced a CLO reset with an unusual four-year reinvestment extension

Carlson produces second CLO from its JV
Carlson Capital has priced its second CLO via Jefferies since entering into an strategic partnership with the bank and Hildene Capital Management to support its CLO issuance

CLO risk retention financier hires Natixis structured credit syndication head
Natixis is the latest bank to lose a senior member of its CLO team 

Apollo poaches two US CLO structurers as sell-side exodus continues
Apollo Global Management has snapped up US CLO structurers from Bank of America and Barclays in what is fast amounting to mass migration away from CLO origination roles

Deutsche Bank starts comeback by pricing first US BSL CLO of 2021
Deutsche Bank has arranged its first new issue US CLO of 2021, teaming up with MJX Asset Management to issue the deal named Venture 43

Bain and Citi print first new issue US CLO as partnership since 2018
Bain Capital Credit priced its third new CLO of the year on Wednesday, teaming up with Citi for the first time on a new issue deal since 2018