Flood of new US CLOs print before long weekend as market wraps up busy week
A hectic day saw new issues pricing from Antares, Barings, CQS and Polus

HPS prints new private credit CLO with triple As at 165
The deal is the second mid-market issue for HPS so far this year

Clearlake seals largest new direct lending deal for Dun & Bradstreet
Ares leads deal, taking USD 1.5bn; Morgan Stanley, Clearlake Capital Markets, Golub and Blue Owl also helped arrange the largest new unitranche ever

Obra prints its second US CLO
The USD 504m deal comes six months after the manager’s debut offering

Clearlake, direct lenders plan to ink USD 5bn private credit loan for Dun & Bradstreet
EXCLUSIVE: A group of direct lenders led by Ares are wrapping up a USD 5bn term loan and USD 500m revolver, prepping to sign commitment documents within hours

Palmer Square prints new US BSL CLO with triple As at SOFR +136.33
Spreads in Palmer Square CLO 2025-2 are well outside those of Palmer Square CLO 2025-1

Clearlake abandons bank-led option for a private credit loan to replace Dun & Bradstreet financing
EXCLUSIVE: The private equity firm is going with the Ares-led private credit loan rather than tapping banks to raise debt in the capital markets 

Barings prices reset with first BSL deal since February
The repricing of the 2023-vintage CLO was the manager’s fifth deal of the year, taking its total issuance for 2025 to USD 1.94bn

Blackstone prices static BCRED CLO
The transaction is the first non-reinvesting deal to price under the BCRED shelf

Tariff fallout sees Euro CLOs discounted most heavily amongst Euro securitised assets – Morgan Stanley
The report from Morgan Stanley Research noted that the market remains in price discovery mode, triple A opportunities in secondary 

Carlyle prices second reset of USD 1bn US BSL CLO
The reworking of CBAMR 2018-6, which was last repriced in 2019, included a USD 80.5m equity infusion

Carlyle prints its first new issue US CLO of 2025
The USD 507.5m BSL deal was the manager's first new issue since November

CVC prints fourth repricing of long-running 2012 US CLO

The transaction, which was last reworked in 2021, has already been through a refinancing and two resets

Golub prints largest CLO ever in reset of 2023-vintage middle market deal
The USD 2.32bn reset brings the total capitalisation of Golub Capital Partners CLO 65(M) to USD 2.5bn

New York Life prints USD 750m of CLO paper across two deals
The manager priced a new BSL issue and 2019-vintage refi over consecutive days this week

HPS undertakes second reset and renaming of 2017-vintage Euro CLO
The deal takes the manager’s total European issuance for the year to over EUR 1.2bn

Ares and Palmer Square print US BSL resets
The similar-vintage deals saw the senior triple As reprice in the mid-120s

CLO manager M&A driven by search for talent and scale
Irradiant’s star investor Maji set to depart as firm is acquired

BlueBay prices its first Euro CLO for 2025 with a new issue
The transaction was the first European pricing activity for the manager in five months  

Morgan Stanley Eaton Vance prices first new deal since 2023
The new US BSL CLO is the manager’s first print since it priced two deals in November

Morgan Stanley launches European direct lending fund open to Europe's wealthy
The investment management arm of Morgan Stanley hopes to leverage its US wealth experience to distribute the new product to European clients  

Blackstone kicks off Euro CLO issuance program for 2025 with tight new issue
Manager's Ravensdale Park CLO priced as the second-tightest European deal so far this year  

Brigade and Palmer Square price US CLO resets with equity upsizings
The 2021-vintage BSL deals were both arranged by Morgan Stanley  

CLO banker Rachel Russell leaves Morgan Stanley for Brookfield
The bank’s head of global new CLO issuance departs after two decades at Morgan Stanley  

AGL, PIMCO rework 2021-vintage US CLOs
AGL and PIMCO both refinanced deals from 2021 and priced the top-of-stack paper at SOFR plus 95bps and 99bps, respectively