Structured credit specialists seek future-proofing in direct lending
At the turn of the last credit cycle, structured credit recovered spectacularly – but credit managers today seem to be gravitating towards private credit as the area to pick up excess returns in a downturn

Apollo forms Italian real estate partnership
Funds affiliated with Apollo Global Management have formed a strategic partnership with Milan-based Realty Partners to invest in the Italian real estate market

Apollo forms Italian credit-focused partnership
Apollo Global Management and Italian mid-market advisor Apeiron Management create a strategic partnership focusing on Italian corporate credit opportunities

Euro league tables: Citi tops rankings in a year of growth for the CLO market
50 new issue CLOs, 39 active managers and four debutants: Creditflux analyses the revival of the European CLO market last year

Searchlight hires former head of opportunistic European credit at Apollo
Apollo Global Management's former head of European opportunistic credit Ralf Ackermann has been hired as partner at private investment firm Searchlight Capital Partners

Fast-moving manager becomes first to reset a CLO that closed in 2016
A European CLO manager has moved quickly to reset a CLO that priced in November 2015 and closed in early 2016

Apollo eyes triple A print in the 70s as it plans European CLO reset
Apollo is planning its second European CLO transaction of 2017

Apollo teams up with Palmira to launch €1 billion joint venture
A new joint venture from Palmira Capital Partners and the Apollo European Principal Finance Fund III seeks to invest more than €1 billion in pan-European modern logistics facilities

Apollo notches up 100% CLO refi/reset record
It’s not easy being a large CLO manager and staying on top of the refi-reset market, but Apollo has managed to do just that

Head of illiquid European credit set to leave Apollo
Sources say that a high-profile figure within Apollo's credit business is leaving the firm

Popular shortlists Apollo, Oaktree, BAML and Bain for rapid NPL sale
Spain’s Banco Popular is in talks with Apollo, Oaktree, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Bain Capital about selling a portfolio of non-performing loans, according to Spanish newspaper Expansión

Pension fund backs Apollo with $200 million for new European credit fund
Apollo Global Management is looking to raise around $3.5 billion for a new credit fund which will look to purchase non-core assets off the books of European banks