Macquarie moves forward on entering CLO management business
EXCLUSIVE: The Australian-headquartered firm has hired a top-tier bank to arrange its first US CLO

Antares resets another super-sized middle market CLO
The transaction added USD 72m in equity and USD 450m worth of triple A paper

New York Life prints USD 750m of CLO paper across two deals
The manager priced a new BSL issue and 2019-vintage refi over consecutive days this week

Starwood prices its first infra CLO for the year
The deal is the second infrastructure-focused transaction of 2025, following DWS’ RIN XII last month

Elmwood prints largest new BSL deal of 2025 with USD 1.02bn issue
The deal comes a month after Golub’s record-setting USD 2.3bn middle market deal

Guggenheim prices ‘quasi-CLO’ rated feeder fund
The deal follows two similar issues from New Mountain over the last 18 months

Blue Owl prices new Wise CLO
The new-issue US BSL deal was the sixth in the manager’s ‘Wise’ series, and its second such print of the year

Onex prices latest short-dated Aegis CLO
The manager’s Aegis deals are characterised by higher-quality portfolios and lower WARF than typical BSL CLOs

Ares adds to middle market issuance with first new deal for the year
Ares Direct Lending CLO 5 priced the top of the stack at SOFR plus 138bps

Records tumble in fantastic February

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

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

New Canyon CLO sees mezz spreads print wide of guidance
The BSL transaction was the first new US issue of the year from the manager  

Clifford Chance adds Mayer Brown partner to meet CLO demand
The law firm is expanding its CLO capabilities in the US to meet a growing demand in the market

Morgan Stanley Eaton Vance prices first new deal since 2023
The new US BSL CLO is the manager’s first print since it priced two deals in November

Ex-Barclays senior CLO banker heads to Japanese bank
EXCLUSIVE: In a bout of musical chairs, a senior CLO banker formerly in the US arm of Barclays finds a new home at a smaller arranger

Nassau prints only second new US BSL CLO in two years
The USD 409m deal incorporated a relatively complex capital structure  

Bill Lemberg helms CLO team as Post Advisory mulls sales
Lemberg has put his retirement plans on hold following the quick departure of Marc Boatwright
 

New Centerbridge print shows only slight mezz tightening compared to late 2024 levels
The manager’s first print of the year tightened triple As significantly from its last print in December, but priced only slightly narrower further down the stack  

Apollo’s Redding Ridge resets 2021-vintage CLO
The reworking of RR 19 priced its triple As in line with the current market average for US BSL resets  

AB prints its first new-issue private credit CLO in five months
The half-billion-dollar deal was the latest middle market CLO to price its triple As below SOFR plus 140bps  

Hamza Lemssouguer’s Arini aims to become a new US CLO manager
EXCLUSIVE: The European hedge fund has hired Goldman Sachs as arranger for its first US deal 

CLO banker Rachel Russell leaves Morgan Stanley for Brookfield
The bank’s head of global new CLO issuance departs after two decades at Morgan Stanley  

Citigroup’s Jim Hughes departs for TPG Angelo Gordon
TPG Angelo Gordon has nabbed the more than 20-year Citi veteran.

DWS prints the first infrastructure CLO of 2025
The latest deal in the RIN series is the first infrastructure-focused CLO this year