December deal downpour shatters issuance records in Europe
December sees the most issuance for the month on record as reset activity jumps to the most this year

Barings puts together first ever European middle market CLO
It’s been a long time coming, but the successful pricing last month of the first European private credit CLO marked a milestone in opening up the region to one of the CLO market’s most dramatic growth stories in recent years.

CLOs at a glance
Our list of recent CLO pricings globally

ICG nabs a second Euro CLO deal before year end
ICG has reset its Euro CLO 2022-1 with a moderately tightened overall cost of funding

Fidelity prices Euro CLO offering, continuing a parade of December resets
Fidelity has repriced a deal originally issued by MeDirect Bank in 2019, arranged by JPMorgan  

CVC slashes cost of funding by more than 100bps on latest Euro CLO reset
The reworking of CVC Cordatus Loan Fund XXVI tightened spreads through the stack on the 2022-vintage deal

Five Arrows tightens up mezz with 2019-vintage Euro CLO reset
The third European reset of the year for Five Arrows Managers saw the triple-As price at 133bps over the base rate  

Partners makes it seven Euro deals for the year with Penta CLO 7 reset
Partners Group was among the European managers to end the year on a high note, pricing Penta CLO 7 via Citi – the manager’s seventh European deal of 2024

KKR’s latest Euro CLO reset records tightest overall funding cost of 2024
KKR has priced the tightest long-duration European reset of 2024 measured by overall cost of funding with a 2018-vintage issue arranged by Jefferies

Tikehau slashes funding cost on latest Euro reset
Tikehau Capital reset a late-2022-vintage Euro CLO achieving a dramatically lower cost of debt on Friday, as managers rushed to price deals before the holiday season

Blackstone prints new-issue European CLO
Blackstone has priced Waterstown Park CLO, its sixth new European issue of 2024, in a EUR 405.3m transaction  

Carlyle resets 2020-vintage CBAM Euro deal
Carlyle has reset a European CLO, sized at EUR 298.425m, that was originally priced by CBAM in October 2020 

HPS prints new vanilla deal as European market maintains momentum
A new EUR 457.4m BSL CLO from HPS continued the unusually strong bout of December issuance momentum

Alcentra prints Euro CLO reset with equity injection
Alcentra has reset a 2018-vintage transaction achieving a weighted cost of debt of Euribor plus 205.2bps, in line with the market but a sharp increase on the pre-reset levels

Polus returns to market with upsized new Euro CLO issue
Polus has upsized its CLO, second new European issue of the year, to EUR 457m via Jefferies  

European BSL CLO Rankings - November 2024
November was the busiest month of the year for the European CLO market according to our latest league tables, with EUR 9.4bn of total issuance 

JPMorgan forecasts strong new CLO supply, 120bp AAAs, in 2025 outlook
JPMorgan's CLO research team has forecast ongoing strong US CLO new issuance for next year to some USD 180bn in 2025 while Europe is also expected to maintain its record new-issue performance with some EUR 45bn in new issuance next year

GoldenTree prints tightest new European CLO since October
GoldenTree’s second new European deal of 2024 priced as the tightest new Euro CLO since October, arranged by Barclays 

European CLO market expects to maintain deal momentum far into December
European CLO market is bracing for a unusally busy December with deals expected from HPS, Polus and PGIM

Arcano Partners launches European CLO platform with EUR 150m of captive equity
Spanish firm Arcano has announced it is launching a new CLO platform and has raised captive equity to back issuance 

BlackRock returns to European issuance with first CLO in 19 months
BlackRock has priced its first European CLO since April of last year arranged via Goldman Sachs  

Palmer Square hits 10 Euro deals for the year with latest reset
Palmer Square has reset a 2023-vintage that priced notably tight in the lower mezz   

Sculptor continues flow of European dealmaking with new CLO
Sculptor has priced its second new European issue of the year via BNP Paribas  

Rockford Tower prices Euro and US resets on same day
King Street Capital Management affiliate Rockford Tower echoed KKR and Permira in pricing dual European and US CLOs at the end of last week

KKR resets European CLO with increased cost of funding
KKR has priced a second reset of Avoca CLO XVI, a 2016 deal reset in 2018, in a transaction that priced tightly but still saw the overall cost of funding jump out