Euro CLO league tables: Blackstone back on top while Jefferies extends lead as focus turns to new issues
2021 European CLO issuance crossed €60 billion in July, which is more than the 22 months that preceded this year

Global CLO league tables - Jul 2021 YTD
Global CLO league tables - Jul 2021 YTD

What summer slowdown? Carlyle, Hayfin and Investcorp add €1.2 billion Euro CLO issuance
Europe’s CLO market has shown no sign of a summer slowdown in the first week of August as Hayfin and Investcorp rework 2020 deals and Carlyle refis 

MJX prints $407 million CLO refi
MJX Asset Management has priced a $407 million refinancing of the triple to single A notes of its 2019 CLO Venture 37

Zais prices wide of the market with reset of post-covid CLO
Zais Group on Thursday became the 30th manager to reset a post-covid CLO, teaming up with Jefferies to rework Zais CLO 15 from June 2020 and renewing the deal's reinvestment period for three years

Jefferies and SMBC form $2.25 billion partnership
Jefferies and SMBC Group have announced an alliance which will see SMBC provide a $1.9 billion credit facility to Jefferies Finance, the leveraged finance affiliate of Jefferies, and $350 million to Jefferies Group.

Hayfin pairs with Jefferies on first new US CLO of year
Hayfin Capital Management returned to the CLO primary market on Friday with its first US new issue deal of 2021

Euro CLO managers price €1bn as triple As surpass 100bp and capped tranches gain popularity
CBAM, Hayfin Capital Management and GoldenTree Asset Management have all taken to the European CLO primary market, adding €1 billion to 2021 volume

Blackstone, Chenavari, CIFC and Five Arrows add €2 billion to weekly Euro CLO issuance
Nearly €2 billion of European CLO issuance priced this week, with Blackstone, Chenavari, CIFC and Five Arrows adding to Napier Park’s reset earlier in the week

PGIM and Sculptor add to CLO reset wave
PGIM and Sculptor Capital Management have thrown their hats into the CLO reset ring

CLO pipeline: Man GLG resurfaces from six-year absence as deals exiting call-lock fill pipeline
CLO spreads have leaked out in recent weeks but deal economics are still favourable, encouraging managers to come back to the primary market for the first time this year

Former Crescent CLO head joins Jefferies board
Jefferies Financial Group has appointed former Crescent Capital CLO head Melissa Weiler and Matrice Ellis Kirk to its board of directors

TCW prints second CLO since forming Jefferies and Kennedy Lewis partnership
TCW Group has brought its second CLO via Jefferies since forming a partnership with the bank and Kennedy Lewis late last year

CLO managers embed new EU sustainable disclosure language in docs after investor push
Bridgepoint, CSAM and Pinebridge are among managers to include language related to the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation, following a push from CLO investor Lupus alpha

HPS inserts loan tranche in European CLO reset
European CLO loan tranches have made another appearance as HPS Investment Partners' resets a 2019 European CLO, Aqeuduct European CLO 2019-3

Euro CLO triple As widen as market participants expect spreads to hit 100bp
European CLO triple As are leaking wider with CSAM and KKR resets the latest to demonstrate this - and some anticipate spreads could widen to 100bp, leading to a potential slowdown

Sancus sails into CLO management with debut deal as triple As hit 132bp
Sancus Capital Management brought its debut CLO to market on Friday via Jefferies, completing its transition from CLO investor to manager

Euro CLO league tables: out with the old, in with the new as Jefferies leads way
Despite being a newcomer to the European CLO market this year, Jefferies has taken the market by storm and leads the way in overall European CLO issuance

Global CLO league tables - May 2021 YTD
Global CLO league tables - May 2021 YTD

Credit funds at a glance (June 2021)
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit

Apex becomes 90th manager to print a new issue CLO in 2021
Apex Credit Partners priced its first new CLO of the year on Friday, becoming the 90th manager to do a new issue globally in 2021

Voya picks its spots with rework of triple As and triple Bs in unusual US CLO refi
Voya Investment Management has executed an unusual CLO refi transaction that cuts the spreads on just the triple A and triple B notes of a 2018 deal named Voya CLO 2018-4

European senior mezz hits tights as CVC resets CLO
CVC Credit has reset its 2017 European CLO CVC Cordatus Loan Fund VIII, with the deal highlighting tightening of spreads in upper mezzanine tranches

CLO pipeline: US market on track for June boom
CLO issuance is set to boom in the coming weeks with the pipeline ballooning as the market looks ahead to June

AMR advocate Sancus to go from CLO investor to manager
Sancus Capital Management is set to join the ranks of CLO managers