Orrick hires 37-lawyer team from Cadwalader, headlined by Quirolo
The experienced CLO specialist headlines a major recruitment of CLO and ABF lawyers across both European and US offices

Private credit shop Corinthia mulls entry into CLO issuance
EXCLUSIVE: The firm has begun deploying the USD 5bn of capital it raised for direct lending and eyeing next step to kick-start middle market CLO issuance 

US CLOs hit SOFR plus 120bps benchmark as BlackRock prints tight
Magnetite LI also issued particularly tight in the lower mezz, with all tranches including single Bs pricing at par

US CLO AAAs edge down to SOFR plus 121bps as Palmer Square issues new deal
The triple As priced at the tightest level for a standard-duration CLO since New York Life’s Flatiron CLO 30 printed in late March

DWS resets third infra CLO this year
The manager reset its 2021-vintage RIN IV on Wednesday as a USD 366m offering, including a USD 6m equity injection

Eagle Point adds head of CLO issuance and originations
The CLO equity investor promoted principal Daniel Wohlberg to the new position

US reset issuance hits over USD 15bn for September as PGIM, Fidelity and Barings print deals
The trio of repriced transactions, together worth USD 1.4bn, featured similar sizes and capital structures

BSL Golub reset incorporates reissued equity tranche
The third reset of Golub Capital Partners CLO 19(B) priced as a short-dated print via Santander, with the senior triple As pricing at SOFR plus 115bps

Blackstone’s Jane Lee to leave the firm
EXCLUSIVE: Blackstone's head of CLO capital formation who spearheaded its CLO issuance has resigned to take time off

Mid-market CLO rankings – August 2025
Market leader Golub approaches USD 10bn in year-to-date issuance in our monthly mid-market rankings, while Wells Fargo leads BNP Paribas in the arranger tables

Eldridge returns to CLO issuance for first time since CBAM sale
The new CLO platform falls under a new wholly-owned asset management and insurance holding company launched in December last year by Eldridge Industries

Rise in BBB fixed-rate CLO tranches in US overtake AAs—Barclays
CLOs tend to prefer floating rate assets, but the percentage of fixed-rate BBBs have ticked up since January 2024

US BSL CLO rankings – August 2025
Blackstone, Carlyle and Neuberger Berman head the way in Creditflux's latest league table manager rankings for US BSL issuance, while in the arranger tables, Bank of America consolidates its lead over second-placed Citi

Mizuho EMEA names former BNP Paribas exec as CIB head
Matthew Ponsonby will become head of Mizuho EMEA’s corporate and investment bank, and president and CEO of Mizuho International on 1 October

Chatham prints second issue with dramatically-narrowed spread premium
The triple As halved their spread premium relative to tier-1 issues compared to the manager’s inaugural deal in June

ZAIS prices market's first new short-dated US CLO in five weeks
ZAIS Group has priced its second new deal of the year, with the manager again opting for a short-duration transaction. Navesink CLO 4 was arranged by Morgan Stanley and issued as a USD 398m deal on a 1Y/3Y timeline

Pseudo-trading plan language becoming increasingly formalised for CLOs – Dealscribe
The new report " new CLO basket is born" says that the development makes aggregation period language “nearly identical” to a traditional trading plan

Garnet, Sagard-HalseyPoint price upsized new US CLOs
A pair of upsized US BSL CLO new issues priced on Thursday from Garnet Credit Management and Sagard-HalseyPoint, totalling some USD 1.16bn in deal value

First Brands factoring agreements a USD 2bn variable at play in potential Chapter 11 filing – legal analysis
Factoring agreement terms determine ownership of accounts receivables in bankruptcy; fraudulent transfer claims, termination fees possible issues

First Brands plans free fall bankruptcy with DIP, as Deloitte goes pencils down
Chapter 11 is expected as soon as Sunday; ad-hoc cross-holder lender group offers around USD 1.1bn DIP financing

US resets flow as Oak Hill Advisors sets new AA benchmark
Around USD 1.38bn of resets priced this week from Oak Hill Advisors, Carlyle, UBS and Intermediate Capital Group, with OHA's print setting a new benchmark in the double As of SOFR plus 150bps

Carlyle’s US CLO PM leaves for Elmwood
New York-based portfolio manager Megan Saltzman has moved to Elmwood from her previous role as MD in Carlyle's structured credit group

Golub prices middle-market CLO with 10-year reinvestment period
The innovative deal sees the reinvestment period set to expire in October 2035, with the non-call period running until 2033

CLO market braces for First Brands fallout
Auto part supplier's leveraged loan has been bid at 40 cents on the dollar, boding ill for recoveries and a hit to equity returns, as First Brands hurtles toward a restructuring

Audax reworks 2021-vintage issue with fifth deal of the year
The triple A paper, split as part of the reset into discrete loan and note tranches, issued at SOFR plus 150bps