GoldenTree snaps up global award... again
Last year, GoldenTree was named Creditflux Global Manager of the Year. This year it repeated that achievement — but it also swooped for our US manager of the year and closed-end fund awards

Sound Point issues second new BSL print of 2025
Brant Point CLO 2025-7 prices with a total cost of funding just under 180bps over SOFR

Sound Point prints new USD 354m US CLO
The BSL deal priced the senior triple As at SOFR plus 125bps

Sound Point refinances 2021-vintage deal from Assured era
Sound Point has printed a refinancing of a US BSL deal that debuted in 2021 on the Assured Investment Management platform

Pre-Thanksgiving rush sees trio of refis from market heavyweights
The trio of refis from PGIM, Sound Point and Carlyle has rework a series of transactions that had last been refinanced in 2021   

First Eagle resets MM CLO with unusual capital structure
First Eagle has reset a CLO deal that maintains majority allocation toward single-A liabilities   

Sound Point prints its fourth new US BSL CLO of 2024
The lastest deal from Sound Point priced its senior and junior triple-A coupons at SOFR plus 138 and 163bp

Sound Point breaks USD 1bn level on third direct lending fund
Sound Point Capital held a final close for its third US direct lending fund, raising USD 1.2bn of equity and debt

Sound Point prices third new US CLO of the year
Sound Point Capital Management, working with Bank of America as the arranger, has printed its third new US BSL CLO of 2024 

Sound Point readies third special sits fund
Sound Point Capital Management plans to launch its third special situations private credit fund during the fourth quarter of this year

Sound Point prices second new CLO of 2024
Sound Point Capital Management, working with Barclays as arranger, priced its second new US BSL CLO of the year on Monday

Sound Point refinances triple As of 2020 vintage CLO
Sound Point Capital Management has refinanced a single tranche of the 2020 vintage Sound Point CLO 28

Sound Point refis 2016 Blue Mountain CLO
Sound Point Capital Management partially refinanced BlueMountain CLO 2016-3 on Monday in a USD 295.789m deal

Sound Point refinances 2018 vintage Blue Mountain CLO
BlueMountain has printed a partial refi of BlueMountain CLO 2018-3, the latest in a trend of similar 2018* vintage restructurings this week that included Carlyle and Octagon

Sound Point prices first US CLO this year
Sound Point Capital Management last week notched its first US transaction of the year, following on from the manager’s European new issue deal last month with a new US BSL CLO

BNPP arranges new US CLO for Sound Point
Sound Point Capital Management has followed up its first deal of the year in June with a second new US CLO, similarly arranged by BNP Paribas

Sound Point becomes 5th largest CLO manager as Assured deal completes
Sound Point announced the completion of its partnership with Assured Guaranty yesterday jumping Sound Point into position as 5th largest CLO manager in the world.

Sound Point prices first CLO under new performing credit head
Sound Point Capital Management priced their latest deal on Wednesday, according to market sources. Sound Point CLO 36, arranged by BNP Paribas, is a US broadly syndicated CLO, and the manager’s first deal this year.

Former Symphony chairman Stein returns to lead CLO business at large asset manager
Well-known CLO business builder Gunther Stein is set to join a large CLO issuer after four years away from the market 

The Last Tranche with Sound Point's Desai: the wrong CLO equity investment strategies will see negative returns
In this episode of The Last Tranche, Ujjaval Desai, head of structured products investing at Sound Point Capital Management, shares his ideas about the investment opportunity across the CLO equity universe

Sound Point/Assured CLO overlap to increase but no credit concern, says Fitch
 The firm's Fitch-rated CLOs had an average 37% portfolio overlap as of April, based on based on obligor count

CLO rankings: manager AUM, advisory firm and trustees Q1 2023
Two acquisitions close to shake up the top and Dechert takes early lead over Milbank in manager counsel rankings

Sound Point to take on Assured's asset management business in new partnership
Assured Guaranty and Sound Point Capital Management have struck up a partnership, according to an announcement, which will make Sound Point the fifth largest CLO manager globally.

CLO M&A hits new heights with anticipated Assured deal
Last year saw a record M&A volume centred on credit asset managers, with a study by Gapstow revealing the total assets under management of acquired firms was $326 billion, compared to $140 billion in 2021.

Sound Point holding CLO M&A talks which could catapult it to fifth-largest manager
Sound Point Capital Management is locked in talks with a large, global CLO manager over a deal that could take its CLO AUM north of $36 billion