Mid market CLO league tables: diamonds are for 2019 and BCRED is for now
Middle market CLO issuance is off to a fast pace in 2022 as a busy February welcomed three new issue CLOs and three resets – adding $3.8 billion to this year’s tally of $4.39 billion

MidCap doubles size of 2018 CLO with reset
MidCap Financial almost doubled the size of its 2018 CLO named Woodmont 2018-4 Trust by resetting the deal via Deutsche Bank on Friday

Blue Owl reaches agreement to buy CLO manager Wellfleet
Blue Owl Capital, owner of Owl Rock Capital Partners a mid market CLO manager, has reached an agreement to buy Wellfleet Credit Partners from Littlejohn & Co

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

Ivy Hill resets 2014 mid market CLO and upsizes by $140 million
Ivy Hill Asset Management reset Ivy Hill MM IX-R via Natixis on Monday, upsizing the 2014 CLO by $139.8 million including $33 million of fresh equity capital

PennantPark prints mid market CLO with triple As at 170bp
PennantPark Investment Advisers on Friday priced its first middle market CLO of 2022

Blackstone prints largest CLO in $1.1 billion mid-market deal
Blackstone Credit has produced the fourth US CLO under the BCRED shelf with the firm pricing a $1.09 billion middle market CLO on Thursday

Monroe prints first reinvesting mid market CLO linked to Sofr
Monroe Capital has become the second middle market CLO issuer to print a new deal in 2022 by teaming up with Deutsche Bank on Wednesday to print Monroe Capital MML CLO XIII at $456.5 million

CLO managers to ramp up mid-market loan holdings
Mid-market loans may increasingly infiltrate broadly syndicated loan CLOs as managers seek to boost returns amid tighter leveraged loan spreads

Madison Capital refis 2019 mid market CLO via Natixis
Madison Capital teamed up with Natixis on Thursday to refinance its most recent CLO from 2019

Monroe markets first reinvesting middle market CLO linked to Sofr
Monroe Capital has launched a new middle market CLO with Deutsche Bank, which is believed to be the first reinvesting mid market deal linked to Sofr

Fortress prints first Sofr-linked middle market CLO
Fortress Investment Group has priced the first middle market CLO with liabilities linked to Sofr

Re-issues show their worth after mid market deal morphs into BSL CLO
Re-issues are scarce in the CLO market, but a transaction late last year highlights how managers can use these effectively to make radical CLO transformations

Guggenheim prints second new CLO in as many months
Guggenheim Investments has priced its second middle market CLO in as many months, teaming up with Wells Fargo as bookrunner and Capital One Securities as co-placement agent to print the $450.4 million Guggenheim MM CLO 2021-4

SME CLO supremo leaves Be-Spoke for expanding Spanish firm
One of the pioneers behind SME CLOs has left Be-Spoke Capital to join another Spanish lender. He leaves behind the only SME CLO in Europe since the 2008 financial crisis  

Golub prices another $1bn CLO in second-largest new deal of 2021
Golub Capital Partners has priced the second-largest new CLO of 2021 and its second $1 billion deal in as many months

MidCap returns to mid market CLO primary with first new deal in year
MidCap Financial has returned to the CLO primary market with its first new middle market deal in over a year

Panagram takes on 'structure advisor' role for mid market CLO as two deals price
Panagram Structured Asset Management has taken an advisor role for a BlackRock mid market CLO - one of two mid market deals Natixis arranged this week, with another for Nuveen Asset Management

GreensLedge takes reins and maps out Deerpath CLO
Deerpath Capital on Monday priced its second middle market CLO of the year, named Deerpath CLO 2021-2

Mid market CLO league tables: deal record breaks as Wells Fargo gains new issue lead
The mid market CLO space had a record-breaking month in November on three counts

AB sharply tightens mid-market CLO debt stack with refi
AB Private Credit Investors (formerly AllianceBernstein) has refinanced  debt tranches from late 2020 mid-market CLO, greatly narrowing spreads in the capital stack

Mount Logan adds junior debt in reset of 2018 mid-market CLO
Mount Logan has reset a Us mid-market CLO it signed in 2018, increasing the size of the deal and shaving the cost of the capital stack and adding junior tranches

Golub prices second billion dollar and second-largest CLO of 2021
Golub Capital has priced the second largest CLO of 2021

Angelo Gordon keeps hold of mezz tranches with mid market CLO
Angelo Gordon has moved into middle market CLOs by printing its first deal backed by loans to middle market companies. The firm retained all junior and mezzanine liabilities in a deal that appears not to carry a public rating

Antares and Palmer Square give new life to legacy CLOs via resets
Antares Capital Management and Palmer Square Capital Management each reset a CLO on Tuesday, with the two deals worth a combined $964.8 million