CLO issuance projected to hit new records in 2026 – KBRA
The ratings agency projects USD 220bn in issuance across US BSL CLOs and private credit CLOs as well as five to six European private credit CLOs next year

CVC raises USD 700m for CLO equity fund, plans new products
The European private credit manager also expects to hold a final close for its European Direct Lending Fund IV in late 3Q

Man Group to acquire CLO and private credit manager Bardin Hill
The USD 3bn credit manager, now named Bardin Hill, is a private credit and US CLO shop based in New York

BNP Paribas taps alts head for combined BNP, AXA IM group
Isabelle Scemama will oversee more than EUR 300bn in assets as the two groups merge

Partners Group seeks to more than double private credit AUM
The alternative investment firm plans to grow private credit AUM to more than USD 70bn and could consider acquisitions

Blackstone reports 18% return from private credit over last 12 months
Blackstone's private credit and liquid credit returns outperform private equity investments in the last 12 months

First Eagle prices the market’s second MM refi of 2024
First Eagle last week priced a rare refinancing of a private credit deal - Lake Shore MM CLO II, a middle-market CLO from 2019

Golub raises USD 2bn for sixth credit opportunities fund
Golub Capital has held the final close of the sixth vintage of its credit opportunities fund, raising USD 2bn

185bps settles in as MM CLO benchmark as Cerberus prices
Specialist middle market manager Cerberus added a second new issue to its 2024 roster on Friday, arranged by GreensLedge

BlackRock keeps up issuance with new middle market CLO
In a flurry of activity, BlackRock followed its Magnetite XVII reset last Tuesday with a new middle market CLO deal the following Wednesday, just outside the tightest such deal recorded so far this year

Golub resets 2019 vintage middle market CLO
Golub Capital Investment Management reset Golub Capital Partners CLO 46 last week

Golub keeps up the pace with big static BSL CLO
Golub has returned to the market with another typically sizeable offering, adding the fifth-largest deal of the year to their portfolio 

Deerpath prices new MM CLO
Deerpath Capital yesterday dipped its toe back in the primary market water for the first time since December

Big is beautiful for latest Antares MM CLO
Last week saw Antares Capital Advisers price its first new CLO of the year, a giant middle-market deal that also priced extremely tightly

Blue Owl pulls off tight reset for 2020 middle market CLO
Another Covid-era middle market deal was restructured yesterday, as Blue Owl pulled the trigger on a USD 395.31m reset 

Refi of PennantPark V middle-market CLO tightens triple-A by 90bps
Pennant Park has refinanced its PennantPark V CLO, a middle-market deal from late 2022

Arrangers optimistic on prospects for CLO-like recurring revenue deals
Recurring revenue (RR) securitisations, one of the more obscure corners of the ABS market, are seeing a surge of interest, according to market sources, with at least three deals in the pipeline.

Wave of legal hires becomes a tsunami
In February alone legal heavyweights Allen & Overy, DLA Piper, Fried Frank, Kirkland & Ellis, Proskauer Rose and White & Case all announced the arrival of partners in the credit space

PennantPark goes short for latest MM CLO
The primary CLO market saw a rarity yesterday when PennantPark Investment Advisers priced the first short-dated middle market CLO of the year

News in brief
Increasingly popular credit interval funds grow by $10bn in 2023 and New arrangers gather speed in US market

HPS prices new private credit CLO
This week has seen increasing amounts of deal flow emerging in middle market CLOs, and HPS Investment Partners joined in on Wednesday, pricing its first deal of 2024

Churchill adds new private credit CLO to roster
While most market attention in recent weeks has been on the BSL side of the ledger, Churchill announced the pricing of a new USD 298.06m middle market transaction on Friday, the third CLO from Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending Corp and its first of 2024

Blue Owl prices third deal this year
Blue Owl has priced its second private credit CLO of 2024, and its third deal this year overall, with a near-USD 600m transaction on Wednesday

US MM CLO Rankings - January 2024
Our latest rankings for the US MM CLO market, including arranger and manager league tables

Permira confirms co-heads of credit platform
European alternative credit manager Permira Credit has named David Hirschmann and Ariadna Stefanescu as co-heads, effective immediately, as parent company Permira makes plans to expand the credit business