Maine, New Mexico systems eye large bets in senior direct lending
Maine PERS plans USD 375m for Blackstone funds; New Mexico SIC allocates USD 300m to Neuberger Berman; LADWP, Ventura County pensions also disclose recent moves

Jefferies kicks off US BSL issuance activity with repricings for Five Arrows and Bain
The reset for Five Arrows and a refinancing for Bain totalled to a value of just under USD 788.5m

Bain special situations, SMBC launch European lending joint venture
The two will provide up to EUR 1.5bn in senior secured debt to borrowers across the UK and Europe in a flexible strategy

New Euro deals issue from BlackRock and Bain
The managers priced new European CLOs via Natixis and SocGen

This has been a year of avoiding the losers – Bain
Gauthier Reymondier, head of Bain Capital Credit Europe, says avoiding losing companies has become more important than choosing winners

New US CLOs price from Neuberger Berman, Bain and MidOcean
The three managers issued new BSL deals this week with comparable capital structures

Bain taps veteran of DWS, Blackstone Credit for global credit COO role
The firm created the new role as the global credit platform scales

Bain prints USD 600m BSL CLO
All three new US BSL issues from the manager this year have topped half a billion dollars in size

Bain resets second mid-market CLO a second time
The deal renewed the 2019-vintage transaction on a short-dated 1Y/2Y schedule

Bain sees moderate narrowing with refi of three-year-old CLO
The USD 544m repricing covered all but the deal's fixed-rate triple A tranche

Bain tightens triple A benchmark for private credit CLOs
The USD 349.13m private credit CLO lowered the current triple A tight for mid-market CLOs by one basis point, to SOFR plus 162bps

Bain adds to two-year-old CLO reset wave with latest US repricing
The reworking of the BSL CLO lowered the overall cost of funding by almost 60bps

Bain to manage Lincoln Financial assets, takes minority stake
Bain Capital plans to take a 9.9% stake in the life insurance and retirement plan firm and will manage more than USD 20bn for the firm’s general account over six years

Expect wider credit spreads, compelling opportunities in CLOs – Bain Capital’s John Wright
PODCAST: Latest guest on the Credit Exchange podcast is "pretty excited" about CLO debt and expects spreads to widen

Lincoln Financial partners with Bain, Partners Group on private credit products for US wealth channel
Lincoln aims to launch the two new private credit products in late 2025

New Bain Euro issue prints wide of guidance in mezz
The deal suggests investor demand is weakening in the middle mezz, even as triple A demand remains strong  

Bain reworks 2019-vintage CLO a second time
The refi of Bain Capital Credit 2019-4 comes nearly three years to the day after a reset of the CLO  

Bain markets new CLO with price talk at fresh European AAA tights
Hot on the heels of a new year-to-date triple A tight for European CLOs, Bain Capital Credit is attempting to drive spreads even lower  

Bain’s second refi of 2025 prints triple-As at 98bps
Bain CLO's top of the stack has priced inside the year-to-date average for US BSL refis

Bain and CVC are marketing new European CLOs looking to price next week
Price talk is circulating for two new European CLO issues from Bain and CVC, both valued at around EUR 405m and arranged by Jefferies  

New issue US CLOs from Bain and Diameter flirt with market tight
Bain Capital Credit and Diameter have priced new US BSL CLOs via Mizuho and Morgan Stanley, respectively

Run in to holidays sees brace of US CLO refis price
Bain, TCW, Palmer Square and ArrowMark has priced refis totalling over USD 1.75bn  

Bain Capital prices new US BSL CLO
Bain Capital Credit has priced its sixth new US BSL CLO this year, with CIBC serving as the arranger of the USD 510m transaction.

Bain raises nearly USD 6bn to invest in hybrid capital, special situations
Bain Capital has held a final close for its latest global special situations fund, raising USD 5.7bn to provide private debt and equity financing for companies across sectors and at various points in the market cycle

Bain Capital fundraising for third captive CLO equity vehicle
Bain Capital Credit has become the latest CLO manager to start fundraising for a new captive equity fund