MJX prints first reinvesting CLO of the year
MJX Asset Management has become the first CLO manager to print a reinvesting new issue transaction in 2021, teaming up with Jefferies as lead arranger and Bank of America as co-arranger on the $507.3 million deal, named Venture 41

MJX joins CLO market trend towards floating rate refis
Pre-covid style CLO refinancings are continuing to make their longawaited comeback as MJX Asset Management became the latest manager to execute a mult-tranche floating rate refi in December

Carlson signs equity deal with Jefferies and Hildene for four CLOs in three years
Dallas-based manager Carlson Capital has entered a strategic partnership with Jefferies and Hildene Capital Management to support issuance of CLOs on its Cathedral Lake platform

US manager completes first new issue CLO in 17 months
Hayfin Capital Management has returned to the US CLO market with its first new issue since July 2019

Jefferies hires European CLO structurer from NatWest Markets
Jefferies has added to its burgeoning CLO primary team by hiring a CLO structurer in Europe

Columbia prints tightest five-year reinvestment US CLO since March sell-off
Columbia Management has priced the tightest five-year reinvestment CLO post-covid

CLO pipeline: LCM switches arranger to complete deal and join issuance surge
Over $3.5 billion of global CLO issuance priced last week and managers in all three CLO markets are taking advantage of tightening spreads across the capital structure after three major covid-19 vaccine breakthroughs and increased confidence since the US presidential election

TCW enters CLO equity partnership with Jefferies and Kennedy Lewis
TCW Group has entered a strategic investment agreement with Jefferies and Kennedy Lewis to support future CLO issuance

TCW completes first reset of 2020 CLO and adds double Bs
TCW has become the first manager to rework a 2020 vintage CLO after teaming with Jefferies to reset its April transaction named TCW CLO 2020-1

CLO Census results: Citi comes out top but several banks make big leaps
Citi has been voted top in five out of the eight primary CLO categories as part of the 2020 Creditflux CLO Census, but BNP Paribas, Goldman Sachs, Jefferies and Natixis are among the banks that have made huge strides compared to last year

Apex splits double B CLOs in first new issue in 13 months
Apex Credit Partners has returned to the CLO primary market with its first new issue in over a year

NYL prints five-year reinvestment CLO with triple As at 130bp
New York Life Investment Management has brought the second five-year reinvestment CLO to market and placed its triple A notes at just 130 basis points over Libor 

CLO pipeline: managers prepare to end quarter with a bang
CLO issuance is showing no signs of slowing down as spreads continue to grind tighter and election day draws ever closer

NYL markets five-year CLO with spreads poised to move tighter than Q4
NYL Investors is marketing a five-year reinvestment US CLO with price guidance indicating CLO spreads are tighter than they were during the sell off in the fourth quarter of 2019. However, IG and HY credit are on different paths

US CLO league tables: AGL grabs new issue lead
AGL Credit Management has added to an impressive run of CLO deal-making, pricing its fifth US new issue of 2020

Covid-19 pandemic draws CLO repricing from out of shadows
A rare CLO repricing took place last month, despite the option being written into CLO documentation for years

Zais issues second new CLO in three months
Zais Group has issued its third new CLO of 2020, and its second to price amid the coronavirus pandemic. Jefferies arranged the deal, which is named Zais CLO 16

CLO pipeline: a marathon for some, a sprint for others
Following a week in which there were three US CLO refinancings, one new issue CLO and one upsizing, three more US CLO managers are marketing latest new issue CLOs after varying times away

Apex cuts coupon on fixed rate triple As in single tranche CLO refi
Apex Credit Partners has refinanced the fixed rate notes in its 2017 US CLO

US CLO managers show they are quite partial to refis as Aegon prices
Cedar Funding V has become the ninth US CLO to refinance its debt in the last month as part of a wave of partial refinancings

US CLO league tables: refis return as Apollo and Citi maintain leads
US CLO monthly issuance rose above $8 billion in July for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic wreaked havoc across the globe

Refinancing of fixed CLOs gathers pace as Jefferies follows Natixis with triple MJX refi
Natixis has built on its drive to refinance CLOs' fixed rate tranches by arranging a $100 million transaction for Fortress Investment Group. And Jefferies has joined the fray, on Tuesday becoming the second bank to refinance CLOs amid the coronavirus pandemic as it repriced six tranches across three CLOs managed by MJX Asset Management

Columbia adopts AMR with first new CLO issue since November
Columbia Management has returned to the CLO primary market with its first new issue in over eight months

Jefferies completes shock raid on Citi's European CLO desk
Citi's head of CLO issuance Laura Coady is joining Jefferies, resulting in the bank making a big change to its global CLO platform

CLOs price at par again as TCW joins select group of new issuers
TCW Asset Management today joined the ranks of CLO managers to issue since the coronavirus pandemic dislocated markets