Latham & Watkins hires two marquee structured finance lawyers
The law firm has recruited A&O Shearman veterans Franz Ranero and James Smallwood    

Wild volatility drives spike in secondary market activity, as primary market hits the brakes in Europe
EU ABS weekly digest: primary ABS and CLO markets hit the brakes, while the secondary markets saw a flurry of BWICs hit the screens in Europe

Trump's tariff U-turn sparks cautious tightening in secondary
ANALYSIS: European CLO market saw little forced selling, more BWIC activity with some percentage of DNTs

BWICs dominate CLO, ABS secondary activity as primary quietens
EXCLUSIVE: A flurry of BWICs hit screens this week, offering both CLOs and ABS, though some did not trade in Europe

Fair Oaks adds US dollar-hedged share class to Euro CLO ETF
Trading began on Monday, with a denomination size of USD 10

Trinitas prices new Euro issue with triple As at 124
The new issue priced on Monday, with deal activity expected to slow imminently

Dechert adds Paul Hastings partner to bolster private credit, CLO biz
Brian Whaley will bring his experience in private credit, securitization and structured products to the global finance group

Palmer Square refinances 2024 static Euro CLO
The deal is the first of last year’s vintage to undergo a repricing, according to Creditflux data

Spire resets Euro CLO 18 months after initial pricing
The European manager has repriced Aurium CLO XI, a 2023-vintage deal, at the earliest opportunity

AlbaCore prices seventh CLO
The print comes 13 months after the manager’s last new issue

Pemberton picks up pace as it markets third-ever European CLO
Indigo Credit Management III is expected to price in early April

HPS undertakes second reset and renaming of 2017-vintage Euro CLO
The deal takes the manager’s total European issuance for the year to over EUR 1.2bn

Refresco halts repricing and add-on transaction as market sentiment sours
Pulls deal from syndication as recent market volatility has made the repricing difficult to execute

Napier Park loses CLO portfolio manager to established European rival
EXCLUSIVE: The CLO market has seen a number of portfolio managers changing seats in Europe

Napier Park’s European CLO portfolio manager leaves firm
EXCLUSIVE: London-based director Diarmuid Curran has resigned from the alternative credit manager  

Silver Point recruits CLO PM Elliott-Taylor as it edges closer to European management launch
The firm hired away its latest recruit from a fellow European CLO management aspirant  

Records tumble in fantastic February

Atos provides a French lesson for SRT investors

Fund performance - February 2025
Structured finance leads, but all indices stay positive as 2025 begins

Spain’s Arcano Partners debuts as a new CLO manager
Arcano has priced its first CLO transaction, making the Spanish firm the first new manager of the year

European CLO spreads flare wider due to policy uncertainty and weaker relative value
ANALYSIS: Increased worries about policy uncertainty have started to weigh as tiering becomes more evident in the lower mezz  

BlueBay prices its first Euro CLO for 2025 with a new issue
The transaction was the first European pricing activity for the manager in five months  

Rockford Tower adds to rush of European new issues
The upsized half-billion-euro deal from the King Street Capital Management affiliate was its first Euro pricing activity for the year  

Elmwood signals entry into Europe with BlackRock hire
EXCLUSIVE: US-based asset manager Elmwood has hired a European CLO veteran from BlackRock 

Brigade prices first new European issue in 10 months
The latest print in the manager’s Armada series was the tightest European deal so far this month