LP round up: Oak Hill wins $300 million for strategic credit and Arcmont eyes fund four
US investors allocated nearly $1.5 billion to credit funds in May, with managers to win mandates including: 400, Accel-KKR, Advent, Arcmont, ArrowMark, Comvest, Edelweiss, Francsico, Oak Hill, Sixth Street and Sprott

Antares hires bank's US CLO structuring head
Antares Capital has hired an experienced figure to structure its own CLOs and work on other financings. This follows Redding Ridge making a similar hire this month

Want an upsize with that reset?: Golub follows Ivy Hill with mid market CLO
Golub Capital made it two mid market CLO resets in two days by reworking its 2016 CLO, Golub 30 (M)-R, and upsizing the deal by $196.4 million from the original size

Golub near-doubles size of CLO that left reinvestment last year with late reset
Golub Capital Partners teamed up with GreensLedge on Friday to reset a middle market CLO, Golub 33(M)-R2, almost doubling the size of the transaction

Mid market CLO league tables: Antares and Wells Fargo press reset to lead market
Following March's $5.87 billion, the busiest month of mid market CLO issuance since at least 2016, April felt like a quiet month for mid market CLOs with $2.26 billion pricing across three new issues, two resets and one partial refinancing

Asset management giant emerges as bidder for European CLO businesses
A large asset manager came close to adding European CLOs and direct lending to its product range with the firm emerging as a bidder on two asset management businesses

Canadian direct lender takes on US mid market CLO
Toronto-based Mount Logan Capital is set to acquire portfolio management rights to a middle market CLO issued by Garrison Investment Group named Garrison MML CLO 2019-1. Pending investor approval, Mount Logan would become the first Canada-based firm to manage a US CLO

Creditflux announces finalists for Manager of the Year award
Ahead of the virtual awards ceremony on 15 July Creditflux is thrilled to announce the four finalists for the prestigious Manager of the Year category.

Libor fall weighs heavily on loan and CLO portfolios
Libor floors are set to return to prominence after three-month rates tumbled to 0.38% by 18 May, returning the loan market’s base rate to its lowest level since the oil and gas crisis of 2014-16

Two senior credit officials leave Global Atlantic
Global Atlantic has parted ways with two senior members of its credit team, including its head of credit investments

BlackRock’s first mid-market CLO to be managed by experienced team acquired from Tennenbaum in 2018
BlackRock is on track to become the latest manager to start issuing CLOs backed by loans to middle market companies.

Mid market CLO league tables: Barclays makes entrance as AB picks up the pace
Barclays was involved in its first ever middle market CLO, as July marked the first month of 2019 that Natixis did not arrange a mid market CLO this year.

Mid market CLO round-up: eyes (wide) open as mid-market CLOs re-awaken
AB returned to the middle market CLO space this week after a year out to price ABPCI V. It is the second middle market CLO of the year after Fortress Investment Group refinanced Fortress Credit Opportunities VII. 

AB returns to CLOs by pricing 2019's first mid-market new issue
AB Private Credit Investors, the middle market credit arm of AB, has become the first manager to price a new issue CLO backed by mid-market loans in 2019

Mid market specialist prepares first new issue CLO since September 2016
A manager has teamed up with Natixis to price the second CLO of the year backed by a portfolio of middle-market loans

Carlyle group's solid Q4 results include $1.7 billion of global credit fundraising
The firm’s fourth quarter global credit fundraising of $1.7 billion included four CLOs, follow-on closes in their new private BDCs, structured credit fund, and managed accounts

Former ICG credit head Kershaw takes advisory role at distressed debt firm
Dagmar Kent Kershaw, the former head of Intermediate Capital Group's credit fund businessin Europe and Australia, has landed an advisory role at a $7 billion distressed debt manager

New direct lending fund and CLO launch drive surge in manager's AUM
A European fund manager has seen its assets under management surge in Q3, thanks in large part to its private debt business

THL eyes debut as mid-market CLOs boom
The number of active mid-market CLO managers is about to reach double digits with THL hiring Deutsche Bank to structure its first mid-market CLO 

Mid-market CLO issuance crosses $10 billion as Madison prices reset
Madison Capital Funding priced a reset of a 2014 middle-market CLO this week, according to market sources

Cerberus outlines CLO-based mid-market financing strategy
Cerberus claims not to be a CLO manager (not in the traditional sense anyway), but the firm is targeting two more mid-market CLOs this year

Angelo Gordon continues to ramp up after launching large direct lending fund
Angelo Gordon’s US direct lending unit has added a $55 million position to its new fund