First Eagle teams with BNP Paribas on US CLO
First Eagle Investment Management issued a new $409.7 million CLO on Friday named Wind River 2021-2

First Eagle's first mid market CLO from 2019 gets reset treatment
First Eagle Investment Management worked with Natixis on Monday to reset its inaugural middle market CLO from 2019 named Lake Shore MM CLO I

CLO pipeline: new issue becomes name of game with 14 managers preparing to price
Only $3.2 billion of CLO paper priced globally across all forms of pricings this past week. But the market looks to set to explode back into life with 14 US CLO new issues in the pipeline

First Eagle CLO notches up highest control equity trade on b-wic since at least 2017
The fourth control position in a US CLO was listed yesterday at 12pm EST (5pm UK time) as $33.43 million of Wind River 2017-4, a First Eagle managed CLO, was up for sale along with two other US CLO equity items

$1.25 billion of CLO refis span range of tenors
The CLO primary market absorbed $1.25 billion of refinancings as American Money Management Corporation, First Eagle Investment Management, PGIM and Alcentra priced cost-cutting transactions, with different reinvestment periods across the pack

Five refis add $1.43 billion to CLO market
The CLO primary market has absorbed another $1.43 billion of refinancing paper as five managers printed cost-cutting transactions

Waiting for afters
Day one arb remains important, but last year there were opportunities aplenty in the secondary market, which put the onus on printing CLOs and waiting for the day after non-call periods expired

First Eagle places its largest CLO for two years
First Eagle Investment Management teamed up with Bank of America on Friday to issue its largest CLO in almost two years

First Eagle joins PGIM as only managers to print pre-covid-style refis
First Eagle Investment Management has become the second manager to price a pre-covid style CLO refinancing in the post-covid era, teaming with Credit Suisse to cut the funding costs on three tranches of KVK CLO 2016-1A

Key CLO portfolio manager set to leave First Eagle
A key person named in three legacy THL Credit CLOs, which First Eagle manages following its acquisition, is set to depart in January after 16 years' service at the firm 

First Eagle refinances partially paid-down senior CLO tranche
First Eagle Investment Management has teamed up with Citi to refinance a triple A-rated fixed CLO tranche that has been partially paid down

Fracking servicer FTS files for chapter 11 protection
Fracking servicer FTS International filed for chapter 11 protection in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas Houston yesterday. The credit is not widely featured in CLOs with only nine managers holding $47.9 million of FTI’s term loans

Global CLO b-wic round-up: CLO lower mezz tightens while equity investors strive for duration
A large supply of CLO paper flooded the secondary market last week as $1.5 billion of US CLO bonds and €370 million of European CLOs were listed, according to CLO-i

(First) Eagle has landed: Morgan Stanley prints breakthrough five-year CLO
First Eagle Investment Management has priced the first regular-way five year reinvestment CLO following the credit market dislocation triggered by the coronavirus pandemic

First Eagle prices one-year mid market CLO
First Eagle has priced its latest CLO backed by middle market loans

OC health check: CLOs heal up with no new breaches among US BSL deals
53 CLOs reported an over-collateralisation (OC) test breach last week, but only two CLOs breached an OC test for the first time, neither of which were US broadly syndicated loan CLOs

OC health check: slowing of downgrades offers some reprieve for CLOs stuck in breach
89 deals reported overcollateralisation breaches last week, but only seven of these deals were breaching any OC test for the first time, according to the latest reports available on CLO-i

CLO double Bs on sale as sub-investment grade rally fizzles out
After more than a month of rapid tightening, CLO double Bs trended wider last week by roughly 60 basis points, as the market for these sub-investment grade tranches stabilises in the mid-800s

Dishware maker files for bankruptcy as CLOs hold $200 million
CLOs hold $207.58 million of Libbey Glass, which filed for chapter 11 protection in the US Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware on Monday, as a result of the firm's impending debt maturities and the impact of coronavirus

OC health check: some CLOs cure failures, but quarter of US deals still in breach
117 deals failed over-collateralisation tests in the last week, although only 46 of these were deals reporting breaches for the first time, according to the latest reports available on CLO-i

Points up front: Senior tranches pay down despite junior OC passes
192 US CLOs have breached at least one over-collateralisation test, according to CLO-i, but at least two deals have not followed the conventional path

$350 million of CLO collateral drips into default as oil companies file for Chapter 11
CLOs hold $353 million worth of debt of two oil and gas companies - Ultra Petroleum and Gavilan Resources - which have become the latest casulties of the precipituous decline in oil prices. The pair filed for chapter 11 protection in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas on Thursday and Saturday, respectively

OC health check: first senior breach in middle market pushes CLO tally to 13
41 CLOs have breached an overcollateralisation test in the last week, according to the latest trustee reports on CLO-i, taking the overall total to 182

Strong structures benefit mid market CLO structures despite lack of government support
April was a brutal month for the broadly syndicated loan-backed CLO market, with swathes of deals breaching their overcollateralisation limits. But sources say their middle market counterparts could be better placed to weather the storm if the coronavirus crisis escalates

First Eagle looks to appoint former THL officials as key CLO personnel
Former THL Credit Advisors officials are poised to take on key roles in the management of First Eagle Investment Management’s CLO platform