Kirkland & Ellis recruits two new structured credit partners
CLO lawyer Jared Axelrod and structured finance specialist Suril Patel have joined Kirkland in its New York and London offices respectively

AGL hires Kassem Shafi as head of capital formation, strategic initiatives

SMBC swoops in to take JPMorgan’s CLO leadership
In one of the most dramatic moves the CLO market has ever seen, SMBC Nikko has swooped in and hired three of the most senior members of JPMorgan’s CLO leadership team

Founding five get off to a famous start
This is the story of how the five founding members of the CLO team came together at CIBC, and how they have grown from nothing to 28 transactions in less than a year

Credit funds at a glance
Emerging markets, structured finance and US high yield outperform, plus our tables of recent credit hires and recent fundraising

Nuveen Private Capital taps Ares partner for private wealth distribution
The platform encompassing Churchill Asset Management and Arcmont Asset Management, has hired Moshe Bajnon for the newly created position of global head of private wealth

Audax Private Debt hires from Stifel in wealth push
Audax has become the latest addition a string of private credit managers strengtheing their wealth management sales teams

John Kim resigns from CLO investor Panagram
John Kim has resigned from his role as CEO and CIO of Panagram, with Eldridge's Tony Minella stepping in as interim CEO of the firm

First Eagle adds direct lending MD in New York
First Eagle Alternative Credit has hired a direct lending originator from Brightwood with a focus on the New York metro region

Michael Hintze’s hedge fund Deltroit bolsters CLO investing with new hire
Lord Michael Hintze’s latest hedge fund Deltroit has hired CLO investor Emeric Chenebaux from Federated Hermes

Blackstone makes two senior hires for infra lending and asset-based credit
Blackstone has hired two senior managing directors to focus on infrastructure and asset-based lending as members of the greater BXCI team

Fidelity adds another senior private debt hire as US expansion continues
Fidelity Investments has hired Lendell Thompson from Vista Credit, the latest of six senior investment professionals added to its US direct lending business

Blue Owl moves to launch direct lending business in Europe
US-based asset manager Blue Owl is looking to launch a direct lending business in Europe and is interviewing deal-markers in the regions

King Street bolsters CLO research ranks with hire from KKR
Alternative asset manager King Street has hired Terry Ing from KKR to head US research for credit and CLOs    

Credit funds at a glance
Fund performance; recent fundraising; recent hires

Apollo’s Redding Ridge promotes Joe Moroney to CEO
Redding Ridge, Apollo's CLO management subsidary, has named Joe Moroney to be its new CEO 

White Oak hires from eCapital for ABL solutions team
White Oak Commercial Finance has hired two senior VPs from eCapital Corporation to work on ABL solutions for non-sponsored, middle market companies

PineBridge’s CLO PM Steve Hasnain passes away
Steve Hasnain, a portfolio manager with PineBridge Investments’ leveraged finance team and the co-director of leveraged finance research, has died

Gibson Dunn adds Akin partner to lead private credit practice
Gibson Dunn has continued a hiring spree with the addition of a New-York based partner to lead the firm's private credit efforts

UMB expands CLO trustee team with trio of hires from Wilmington Trust
UMB Bank has made a trio of hires from Wilmington Trust for its CLO trustee team, adding Henry Brigham, Willis Hwang and David Knecht

Investcorp's head of European credit funds Philip Yeates leaves firm amid leadership shake-up
Philip Yeates, head of European credit funds at Investcorp, has left the firm as the asset manager undergoes a leadership shift that's seeing co-CEO Hazem Ben-Gacem set to depart later this year and executive chairman Mohammed Alardhi take on CEO duties

Evangeline Lim departs from Arini and retires from CLO industry
Arini's head CLO PM Evangeline Lim is leaving Arini, triggering a shak-up that sees the firm's deputy CLO PM Ben Rothberg replacing her

JP Morgan CIO PM finds his way to ABL fund
Doug Nicholson, a portfolio manager in the chief investment office at JP Morgan for over 15 years, has jumped to a buy-side private credit firm

KBRA hires Scott Duggal as it raids buy-side, sell-side, and journalism
Ratings agency KBRA has turned to the buy-side, sell-side, and journalism for a raft of senior hires in Europe

Cahill grows private credit practice with hire from Orrick
Law firm Cahill Gordon & Reindel turned to Orrick to find a new partner for its growing private credit practice