CBAM: star power, friends in insurance, and doing things 'my way'
"And now the end is here, and so I face that final curtain... I've lived a life that's full, I traveled each and every highway, And more, much more
I did it, I did it my way". Sinatra could easily have been thinking of CBAM when he penned these lyrics. We look back at how a group of experienced CLO officials came together to launch a mega player in the CLO business in no time at all 

Carlyle to become world's biggest CLO manager with deal to buy CBAM assets
Carlyle Group says it is buying CBAM Partners assets in a deal that is set to make the firm the largest CLO manager globally with about $48 billion of CLOs under management.

Packaging company Schur is painful for European CLOs
The dramatic fall in loans taken out by Austrian flexible plastic packaging manufacturer Schur Flexibles has shocked CLO managers. The firm is hiring PJT Partners and Allen & Overy ahead of a potential restructuring

CLO pipeline: deals come in two by two hurrah! hurrah!
It is raining CLOs in February and some issuers are preparing for the deluge by printing deals at the double

Carlyle and Oak Hill give $50 million upsizes to CLOs amid resets
Carlyle Group and Oak Hill Advisors each reset a legacy CLO on Monday, with both managers opting for a substantial upsize of the original deals

European CLO market gets underway with two refis, one reset and bubbling pipeline
Managers priced two European CLO refis and one European CLO reset on Thursday as Barings, Blackstone and Carlyle all reworked deals

Ares expands into European real estate debt with Carlyle hire
Ares has expanded its presence in European real estate debt with the appointment of former Carlyle official as partner and head of the real estate debt team

US CLO league tables: Blackstone and Citi win new issues but CSAM and JP Morgan take overall issuance crown
The US CLO market had an extraordinary 2021 with almost $400 billion of overall issuance pricing as records were set for all forms of issuance

Global 2021 CLO league tables
Global 2021 CLO league tables

Carlyle prices record 25th CLO primary transaction of 2021
Carlyle Group's US CLO primary haul for 2021 grew to a record 25 transactions on Friday after the manager refinanced Carlyle US CLO 2019-3 via Citi

CLO managers show respect to their elders
Alongside lucrative new issues, managers also make time for refinancing and resetting old deals. Our data shows that, in 2021, mid-sized firms were the most effective at this balancing act

Carlyle refinances whole stack of 2019 CLO
Carlyle Group has teamed up with Bank of America to refinance the entire capital stack of Carlyle US CLO 2019-2

CLOs at a glance (January 2022)
A listing of CLOs that have priced in the last month

Carlyle and Pretium opt for short reinvestment periods on new US CLOs
Carlyle Group and Pretium each opted for a short reinvestment period as they printed new CLOs on Friday

Global CLO league tables - Nov 2021 YTD
Global CLO league tables - Nov 2021 YTD

US CLO league tables: Blackstone takes new issue lead amid monthly new issue record
The US CLO market priced $23 billion of new issues in November, setting a record for most new issuance in a month in the 2.0 era

Carlyle prints five-year European CLO as it slides into fifth place in league tables
Carlyle Group has printed the 10th European CLO with reinvestment longer than five years

Treasury desk lists $818 million b-wic as hedge fund looks to offload control CLO equity in bumper day
State Street once again listed over $800 million of US CLO triple A bonds on Tuesday, having sold $834 million of triple A paper last month

US CLO league tables: Palmer Square stands tall in land of the CLO giants
The US CLO market has extended its run of incessant issuance with October having added $39.98 billion of CLO paper to the year’s tally, making it the second most productive month this year for overall and new issue volumes

Carlyle breaks records with 10th US CLO of 2021
Carlyle Group has become the first CLO manager to price 10 US new issues in the space of a year

Everyone’s ramping

Still plenty more fish in the triple C

Nine CLOs each — and every one of them is different
CLO giants Blackstone and Carlyle Group have printed nine new US CLOs apiece this year, but CLO market participants say managers are creating distinct portfolios

Carlyle and Fort Washington add to surging CLO refi volume
Carlyle Group and Fort Washington has each refinanced a 2019 CLO at over $500 million

US CLO pipeline: 1.0 manager returning, Carlyle going for CLO 10 as market goes to 100
Never in 1,000 years would the critics have expected this