Global CLO law firm rankings – FY 2025
Milbank and Paul Hastings again top Creditflux’s global legal manager and arranger counsel rankings for 2025 – but the shifting legal landscape drove changes further down

Moody’s prepares to enter European private credit CLO rating space
EXCLUSIVE: Moody’s is in discussions about rating private credit CLOs in Europe for the first time, as the market continues to grow

European reset benchmark lowered to 123bps with CIFC pricing
The reset benchmark now matches the current tight for new European issues, with the 2020-vintage transaction reset via Morgan Stanley

Euro market kicks into high gear as end of week sees flurry of pricings
Friday was the busiest day thus far of 2026 for European CLO primary, with two new issues and two resets adding more than USD 1.7bn in fresh paper to the market

Barings issues Euro market’s first reset for 2026
BNP Paribas was the sole arranger for Barings Euro CLO 2024-1, which was valued at EUR 376.5m

Private credit investors chase higher risk-return—Campbell Lutyens
A new survey shows investors are seeking higher returning strategies amid expectations of lower rates, while also turning away from the dominant North American market

European CLO primary activity kicks off as M&G prices refi
The first European pricing activity of 2026 took place Friday as BNP Paribas arranged a repricing of M&G’s Margay CLO II

European CLO rankings – full-year 2025
CVC leapt to the top of the European CLO manager issuance pile in 2025, while Jefferies extended its run of annual victories amongst arrangers to four in a row

2026 kicks off with a lot of thunder and not much lightning
ANALYSIS: A lot of noise around geopolitics, Fed interference and market volatility has had little effect on the global CLO market, for now  

Ares preparing to issue second private credit CLO as multi-currency deal
EXCLUSIVE: Ares European Direct Lending CLO 2 will be a euro/sterling deal and is expected to price soon

Barings to reset static middle market CLO as multi-currency, reinvesting deal
EXCLUSIVE: Barings is resetting its EUR Middle Market CLO 2024-1, converting it from a static euro to a reinvesting multi-currency deal

CLO industry in push to increase use of AI in 2026
ANALYSIS: Investors are already using AI to evaluate managers and CLO documentation

Acer Tree and Arini price latest deals as market winds down
Acer Tree and Arini have issued new European CLOs to round out the year, with Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs acting as arrangers on the respective deals

TwentyFour AM favours European CLO equity going into 2026
In comparison, US CLO equity faces more challenges related to LMEs and refinancing activity, the asset manager said

Accumulation of long-dated assets in EMEA CLOs poses risk – Fitch
There is increased pressure to sell long-dated assets given the shortening tail periods in EMEA CLOs, the ratings agency said

North American and European credit defaults to fall next year – S&P Global
Global credit default rates will remain contained next year with North American defaults falling to around 4% 

CLO issuance projected to hit new records in 2026 – KBRA
The ratings agency projects USD 220bn in issuance across US BSL CLOs and private credit CLOs as well as five to six European private credit CLOs next year

Switzerland's LGT prices second CLO
Barclays was the sole arranger on the EUR 406m deal, which LGT said attracted orders from both existing and new investors

Park Square appoints its first CLO portfolio manager in Europe as it prepares to enter the market
The private credit firm is among a growing cohort of managers eyeing the European CLO market

Carlyle, Barings market new European CLOs
The two managers are marketing new European CLOs with similar sizings and spreads – but Carlyle’s deal is set to print as a standard-duration five-year CLO, while Barings is offering a short-duration three-year reinvestment period

Five Arrows and Onex print 2023-vintage Euro resets
The two-year-old deals issued via Jefferies

CLO fundamentals expected to weaken through 2026 – Deutsche Bank
CLO credit fundamentals are expected to weaken through next year due to lower loan prices and increased ratings downgrades, creating a bifurcated market, according to Deutsche Bank’s 2026 European CLO outlook

AXA IM resets European CLO with 200m equity upsizing
The reset of the decade-old Adagio IV is the third repricing of the CLO and its first since 2021

New European Blackstone CLO prices at 127bps
The manager’s latest European deal, Stannaway Park CLO, showed some evidence of weakening demand in the lower mezz, with its double Bs issuing at 540bps over the base rate

M&G prices its second CLO of 2025
Margay CLO IV was M&G’s fourth transaction since it returned to CLO issuance last year