Blue Owl prices first tech private credit CLO with 5Y RP
Blue Owl has printed a new middle-market CLO dubbed Athena CLO IV which is the first technology CLO with a 5-year reinvestment schedule

Jefferies stokes middle market with new CLO
Middle market CLO issuance has slowed a little in recent weeks, but that changed last week when Jefferies Credit Partners priced its first deal in 13 months

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

Rapid growth shows middle market CLO no longer BSL’s little brother
Middle market CLOs, the once niche sector that securitises private credit loans, is seeing a growth spurt. What was a junior partner to the much larger BSL world is now a sizeable entity of its own.

Credit funds at a glance
Top indices; recent hires; recent fundraising

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

Golub goes with 5Y RP for latest MM CLO reset
Rounding off a prolific month, Golub Capital priced its third deal in three weeks last Friday, with a reset of a middle market CLO.

New survey explores middle-market CLO operations
S&P Global Market Intelligence, in collaboration with Creditflux, conducted a study of middle-market CLO managers to assess how specialists are adapting their operations to tap this burgeoning opportunity

Crescent Capital shakes up senior-leadership team
Los Angeles-based alternative credit specialist Crescent Capital Group is updating its senior-leadership team with several key promotions

Blue Owl prints middle-market CLO with 5Y RP
Blue Owl Credit Advisors priced a new middle-market CLO Tuesday with the first five year reinvestment periods in a private credit CLO since 2018

Comvest aims to become the first debut US manager of the year
Comvest Capital Advisory Services is in the market with its debut CLO: Comvest Credit 2024-1 CLO, a middle-market deal. The deal will make Comvest the first new US CLO manager of 2024. 

Middle market CLO reset spreads tighten dramatically in new Golub reset
Golub had a busy Friday last week, with a reset of a massive middle-market deal from 2018 showing the tightest such triple A spreads this year

Another US MM CLO reset prices from Deerpath
The reset of the 2021-vintage middle-market Deerpath Capital CLO 2021-1 equalled 2024 tights for this type of deal

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

Carlyle gets tightest middle-market reset senior spreads of 2024
Carlyle has reset its Carlyle Direct Lending CLO 2015-1R, a 2015 vintage with an unusual history, with the tightest senior spread in a middle-market reset this year

Sycamore Tree hires Mizzen Capital’s Head of Business Development
Sycamore Tree has expanded its business development team with the addition of an ex-Mizzen Capital industry veteran

Audax sees senior spreads come in 30bps in 3 months as new MM CLO prices
Audax Senior Debt, the senior debt direct lending arm of Audax Private Debt, has priced its second new middle-market CLO of the year

CLOs and Private Credit can learn to coexist, conference hears
A discussion led by Debtwire's Head of Leveraged Loans Jelena Cvejic, brought together an audience of lawyers, CLO managers and private credit players to hear about the battle between the two. 

Silver Point prices new middle-market deal
Silver Point Capital on Wednesday priced Silver Point SCF CLO III, a new US middle-market deal

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

2020 vintage MM CLO gets a reset
PennantPark has priced its third middle-market CLO offering of 2024, a reset of a 2020-vintage CLO that was the manager’s second transaction

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

Twin Brook grows MM CLO business with upsized deal number three
Angelo Gordon yesterday priced the third iteration of its Twin Brook series of middle market CLOs in a USD 445.75m transaction, upsized from an initial USD 350m

Middle market portfolios aren't immune to rate stress, according to new research
Two research reports published this week highlighted ongoing risks in middle market structured credit portfolios