Euro CLO market closes out week with new issues from PGIM and Royal London
Royal London AM paired with Morgan Stanley to price its third CLO, while PGIM contracted Jefferies to arrange Dryden 134 Euro CLO

In case you missed it: Palmer Square explores possible sale of its business
Creditflux reported on 14 August that Palmer Square is holding conversations and is looking at both organic and inorganic growth options

Five Arrows resets 2022-vintage Euro CLO as short-dated deal
Contego CLO X was arranged by Morgan Stanley and included just under EUR 12m in additional equity

Ares issues fund financing CLO valued at over EUR 700m
Ares European Fund Financing CLO I is a BSL deal that includes a substantial EUR 106.4m equity tranche, significantly larger than usual for this type of CLO

CVC hires TPG's Sisitsky as future co-CEO as Rob Lucas plans to step back
CVC’s CEO Rob Lucas will step back from his role, to be replaced with former TPG president Todd Sisitsky and current CVC President Peter Rutland as co-CEOs, according to a company announcement

European CLO resets issue from CVC and Carlyle
European CLO heavyweights CVC and Carlyle have priced reset transactions, with both deals pricing their triple A paper at 127bps over Euribor

Matheson hires Blackstone lawyer to structured finance team
Law firm Matheson has hired a former Blackstone lawyer to its growing structured finance team

Blackstone aims to price first hybrid CLO in October
EXCLUSIVE: Blackstone is planning to price its first private credit-BSL hybrid CLO in October as an all-euro-denominated deal, according to a source familiar

AI, hybrids and staffing anxieties dominate at Dublin’s Opal conference
EXCLUSIVE: At the first Opal-hosted CLO and Private Credit Forum in Dublin, managers and investors were laser-focused on a handful of key issues

Kartesia set to price first CLO within weeks
Kartesia is preparing to price its debut CLO within weeks, a source familiar has told Creditflux, with the European private debt specialist and CLO equity investor currently undertaking an investor roadshow

Sona plans to issue more hybrid CLOs in Europe
EXCLUSIVE: Sona intends to issue more hybrid CLOs, combining both private credit and broadly syndicated loans, describing them as an 'all-credit CLO strategy'

European CLO issuance poised to resume after holiday break
Capital Four, PGIM and Silver Point are among those set to price new deals over the next few weeks, while Fair Oaks is currently marketing a second reset of its inaugural, 2019-vintage, CLO

Blackstone prices sole new Euro CLO for the week
Willsbrook Park CLO issued as a EUR 454.2m transaction with its top-of-stack paper clearing at the current market tight of Euribor plus 124bps

Victory Capital to acquire CLO manager First Eagle Investments
First Eagle will retain its branding and operate on Victory Capital’s platform following the USD 7bn acquisition

Sona hybrid deal opens up European PC CLO market to smaller players – KBRA
EXCLUSIVE: Sona’s market-first BSL/PC CLO could lead to smaller managers entering Europe’s fledgling private credit CLO market, says KBRA’s Gabriele Gramazio

Sona prices market-first hybrid European CLO
Sona has broken new ground in the European CLO market by becoming the first manager to price a hybrid BSL-private credit CLO, with Goldman Sachs serving as the arranger for the EUR 403.9m Sona Aclai CLO I

Hayfin in active talks with buyers for its US CLO unit
EXCLUSIVE: The London-headquartered credit platform is mulling selling the US arm in entirety or just the CLO assets, according to a source

CLO managers invest in distressed experts in expectation of higher LME environment
EXCLUSIVE: Carlyle and BlackRock are among the CLO managers who have invested in distressed and special credits teams ahead of an expected rise in defaults and LME activity 

Euro CLOs maintain issuance through holidays as HPS and Macquarie price new deals
HPS' Aqueduct European CLO 18 printed as an upsized EUR 505.4m transaction through Jefferies, while Macquarie Asset Management's recently-completed acquisition of Spire Partners made Aurim CLO XVI the manager's first CLO pricing in Europe

Orrick adds another partner to its CLO practice in New York
Former DLA Piper special counsel Steve Lozner has joined Orrick’s structured finance team as a partner in New York with a focus on CLOs 

More amend-and-extend transactions to come into the market in H2 — Carlyle
EXCLUSIVE: Amend-and-extend transactions are expected to increase over the coming months, as managers get ahead of the 2028 maturity wall

CLO investors see improvement in collateral quality metrics
EXCLUSIVE: CLO collateral quality metrics are improving, according to three investors in the space

Palmer Square explores possible sale of its business
The firm is currently holding conversations and is looking at both organic and inorganic growth options, a source familiar has told Creditflux

Fortress issues third CLO in Europe
Fortress Credit Europe BSL 2026-3 follows singular Euro prints from the manager in 2024 and 2025 and was arranged by Citi

More manager dispersion expected for second half of 2026
Multiple market sources have predicted that manager dispersion will characterise the second half of 2026, amid ongoing volatility