Legal analysis of Serta Simmons decision
Serta Simmons’ excluded lenders ring in the new year celebrating appellate wins across the board - debt exchange not conducted on 'open market'

Blue Owl delays fundraising launch of opportunistic credit fund
Blue Owl has put fundraising for its upcoming opportunistic credit fund on pause as it evaluates the market opportunity, according to sources familiar with the matter. 

US CLO resets price from Octagon, Trimaran, Sculptor and UBS
Four managers -- Octagon, Trimaran, Sculptor and UBS -- has priced end-of-year US BSL resets totalling USD 2bn  

US BSL CLO issuance poised to hit record monthly high for December
The US CLO markets is just USD 100m short of hitting an all-time monthly BSL issuance record for December

Carlyle prints its 15th reset of US BSL CLO of 2024
Carlyle Group has reset its C 15^th reset of a US CLO backed by broadly syndicated loans this year, but the first to be arranged by Nomura

Short-dated US CLO reset from CVC prices the triple-A notes at 114bps
CVC Credit Partners has printed a short-dated reset of its Apidos CLO XXV, a US BSL deal that debuted back in 2016, and scored a tight for the triple-A notes of SOFR plus 114bps

CIFC revisits CIFC Funding 2016-1 for a third time
CIFC has printed 17 resets in 2024, but CIFC Funding 2016-1 represents the first refinancing by the manager this year according to our data

Banks predict record-breaking year ahead
Consensus figures generated from outlook reports by five banks suggest 2025 will be another strong year for CLO issuance. But last year, their estimates were well below the actual numbers

This time around, BlackRock will be poised to be a shaper of the move
USD 12bn seems a lot to pay for HPS. But BlackRock urgently needed to catch up in private credit

Orix refinances top of stack of 2014 vintage from former Mariner brand
Orix Advisers has printed a partial refi of Signal Peak CLO 1, a US BSL deal from 2014 that’s been through two managers, two resets, a refinancing, and a renaming.

PGIM refinances 2016 vintage CLO for a third time
PGIM has printed a partial refinancing of its Dryden 43 Senior Loan Fund, reworking the three senior-most tranches in the 2016 vintage US BSL CLO

PGIM to bring mezz fund back to market in 2025
PGIM Private Capital, the middle market private debt business of global investment manager PGIM, plans to launch its latest private credit mezzanine fund next year

Pre-Thanksgiving rush sees trio of refis from market heavyweights
The trio of refis from PGIM, Sound Point and Carlyle has rework a series of transactions that had last been refinanced in 2021   

Reissued Barings CLO gets a reset as well
Barings, working with BofA as the arranger, has reset its Barings CLO 2019-II, a USD BSL deal that is a reissue of the earlier Barings CLO 2016-III.

Neuberger Berman resets 2016 vintage BSL CLO for a third time
Neuberger Berman has priced a reset of its Neuberger Berman Loan Advisers CLO XXI, the third reset for the US BSL CLO that debuted back in 2016

The second Trump presidency is likely to turbocharge already frothy markets
The impact of Trump’s second term in the Oval Office will be wide-ranging for the US and the world. For credit markets, his return to power portends more intense competition between banks and private credit, and frothier deals.

Panagram CLO ETF loses sixth of AUM amid team departures
The increased volatility that ETFs have brought to the CLO market was highlighted last month when Panagram BBB-B CLO ETF saw USD 75m of net outflows in October

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

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

Benefit Street Partners resets 2016-vintage CLO
A reset of a 2016-vintage US BSL CLO from Benefit Street Partners has priced with a senior triple-A tranche at SOFR plus 137bps

Golub prints middle market reset with tightest cost of debt this year
Golub Capital teamed up with BNP Paribas to print a middle market CLO reset that produced one of the tightest costs of debt for a private credit deal this year

US spending remains resilient despite financial worries
Consumption accounts for just under 70% of the GDP of the world’s largest economy. The good news is that (repeated) reports of the death of the US consumer seem greatly exaggerated.

UBS upsizes equity in reset of 2016 vintage US BSL CLO
UBS Asset Management and CIBC reset a 2016 US BSL CLO, but at the cost of heft equity injection

Carlyle reworks 2012-vintage US CLO for fourth time
Carlyle reworked its US BSL deal Carlyle 2012-4 for the fourth time on Friday, when it priced a USD 494m partial refinancing

Direct lenders debate new protections to avoid being Pluralsight-ed
Direct lenders are starting to ask for “Pluralsight Protection” when negotiating new deals to head off a repeat of the standoff this summer