Goldman's private credit venture with Saudia Arabia's PIF shows Middle East growth
ANALYSIS: The last few years has seen private credit managers court large Middle Eastern LPs or seek to start investing in the region

Hamza Lemssouguer’s Arini aims to become a new US CLO manager
EXCLUSIVE: The European hedge fund has hired Goldman Sachs as arranger for its first US deal 

Goldman’s head of private credit’s Olafson jumps to BDT & MSD
BDT & MSD Partners has hired Greg Olafson, formerly global head of private credit at Goldman Sachs’ asset management arm

Goldman Sachs launches capital solutions group for banking clients
Goldman Sachs is combining its financing, origination, structuring and risk management solution activities in global banking, and also named Vivek Bantwal as co-head of global private credit

TCW resets 2021 BSL CLO
TCW Asset Management last week reset a US BSL deal called TCW CLO 2021-1, with Goldman Sachs acting as the arranger

Blackstone prices new US issue amidst market frenzy
Blackstone has priced its latest new issue US BSL CLO, a USD 557.625m deal arranged by Goldman Sachs

Antares plans unit buying private credit loans from other lenders
Antares eyes buidling out a private credit secondary business to buy loans from other lenders

JetBlue's new loan struggles to take flight
CLO managers had less appetite for JetBlue’s new loan after the airline was downgraded to B3 and B- 

AIMCO scores tightest WACD for a reset in 2024 … again
Allstate Investment Management (AIMCO) priced a reset of a 2022 vintage BSL CLO on Friday with the tightest WACD in a reset this year

Goldman looks to price new US CLO for MidOcean today
According to market sources MidOcean Partners is set to price a new US BSL deal later today via Goldman Sachs

Sycamore resets and upsizes 2023 vintage CLO
Sycamore Tree CLO Advisors has reset and upsized Sycamore Tree CLO 2023-3, adding USD 6m in equity as well as USD 127m of debt

MidOcean cuts WACC by 90bps in 2023 reset
MidOcean Credit last week reset its 2023 vintage MidOcean Credit CLO XII in a deal that brought funding costs in by almost 90bps

Goldman Sachs keeps up the pace with new Five Arrows CLO
Goldman Sachs has continued its prolific start to 2024, arranging its third deal of the year for Five Arrows, the USD 456.05m Ocean Trails CLO XV

New Mountain keeps it short for latest BSL CLO
New Mountain Credit has bucked the new year’s trend for five year reinvestment periods, with its USD 407m new issue this week marking 2024’s first short-dated new US BSL print

Comvest hires Goldman Sachs exec for direct lending origination role
Comvest Partners has hired David Gibson as a managing director on the firm's direct lending investment platform Comvest Credit Partners

Goldman arranges new Tikehau US CLO
French asset manager Tikehau Capital last week priced its second new US CLO of the year in a half-billion-dollar transaction

Carlyle Group prices fifth new CLO of 2023
Carlyle Group has priced its fifth new CLO of 2023 on Friday, joining Blackstone’s half-billion-dollar Bayswater Park deal from the same day with its own new US issue worth USD 497.725m

Birch Grove prices new US CLO
As part of a busy end-of-week for new US CLOs, Birch Grove Capital priced its new US deal Birch Grove CLO 7 on Friday

Arrowmark adds six-month triple A make-whole provision to latest deal
ArrowMark Partners has priced a US new issue CLO that has a six month make-whole provision for the class A-1 tranche

Carlyle prices first CLO reset of 2023
Goldman Sachs arranged the reset of a late 2022 vintage Carlyle CLO

Benefit Street prints new US CLO
Benefit Street Partners priced a new US CLO arranged by Goldman Sachs

Diameter prices fifth US CLO
Diameter Capital Partners returned to the primary CLO market yesterday with its first US CLO this year

Barrow Hanley goes for a short-dated structure on second US CLO
Barrow Hanley Credit Management priced its second US CLO on Thursday, taking the rare step of opting for a 3.5 year reinvestment period

CLO round-up: sentiment improves as multiple breakthrough transactions emerge
New CLO formation slowed this week in the US, while Europe had its second zero-issuance week of the quarter. But there were three major developments: the first CLO refi in15 months, a major investor's first entry into a CLO at the reset stage, and the first middle market CLO arranged by Goldman Sachs.

Goldman Sachs makes middle market CLO debut arranging deal for Blue Owl
Goldman Sachs became a middle market CLO arranger for the first time on Tuesday after issuing a deal for Blue Owl Capital named Owl Rock CLO XIII