McDermott slips into bankruptcy with CLOs holding almost $1 billion
42 CLO managers hold $957.6 million of the debt of McDermott International, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Tuesday. Under the plan, McDermott’s term loan and revolving lenders will receive 94% of McDermott’s reorganised equity and $500 million in take back senior secured term loans. Term loan claims are expected to recover 84%, according to a disclosure statement 

Global CLO b-wic round-up: US CLO equity returns in big way as four control positions hit the market
Over $230 million of US CLO equity went on sale last week via bid lists, the first time these assets have made their way to the secondary market in 2020. It also marks the most US CLO equity listed in a week since at least 2018, according to CLO-i

Anchorage markets CLO triple As at 195bp in novel high triple-C CLO
Anchorage is marketing a high triple-C CLO with a lower than average triple C bucket for such a deal, but with a market value test and par flush triggers.

PGIM launches US CLO with unfunded double Bs
To double B or not to double B, that is the question as PGIM issues an unfunded double B-rated note as part of Dryden 80 CLO, a new issue deal which priced on Friday via Bank of America

US CLO b-wic round-up: secondary volumes reach new heights with equity lagging
The US CLO secondary space saw almost $1.8 billion of paper listed last week according to CLO-i, a record amount for this year. Equity, however, did not draw much interest

Oak Hill prices tightest new US CLO of 2019 with 177bp funding costs
Oak Hill has priced 2019’s tightest CLO after teaming up with Bank of America Merrill Lynch to issue OHA Credit Funding 3

Global b-wic round-up: secondary flows drop to $599 million in the US
Secondary CLO trading took a back-seat last week, with European market participants away Monday and the US focused on 10 primary market pricings 

Palmer Square brings single Bs back to its static CLOs as funding costs tighten
Palmer Square Capital Management priced its second static CLO of the year on Thursday named Palmer Square Loan Funding 2019-2, according to market sources

Global b-wic round-up: focus shifts to the wings of the capital structure
The secondary US CLO market looks to be rebounding after a slow end to the first quarter of 2019 with first-loss and first-pays drumming up attention

US CLO round-up: choose your own reinvestment period
Reinvestment periods have played an important role so far this year, with 30.8% of the new issue market opting for terms shorter than four years

Oak Hill prices $603.5 million CLO with senior triple As printing at 132bp
The New York-based manager has teamed up with Morgan Stanley to launch its first US new issue CLO of 2019

Ellington goes for two-year reinvestment period as it prices CLO
Ellington Management priced a $478.5 million CLO via Barclays on Friday, continuing its strategy of selecting portfolios with high tolerance of triple C-rated loans

TICP prices new issue CLO with rare 2.5 year reinvestment period
TICP, the credit arm of TPG Capital, yesterday became the first manager of 2018 to price a new issue CLO with a 2.5 year reinvestment period

Control equity investor decides against reworking CLO triple As in $140 million refi
Another US CLO has been refinanced without the triple A-rated notes being troubled

Triple As are left alone as Natixis prices US CLO refi for large asset manager
Natixis priced a US CLO refinancing for LCM Asset Management on Friday in which the first-pay notes remained intact while the remainder of the debt stack was repriced

Wellfleet cuts triple A spread by 51bp in second CLO refi of October
Wellfleet Credit Partners has returned to the CLO refi market for the second time this month to rework Wellfleet CLO 2016-2

Greywolf reissues 2014 CLO for two extra years of reinvestment
Greywolf Loan Management has become the latest to price a short transaction, reissuing its 2014 deal Greywolf CLO III

Global CLO round-up: buttermilk-shakes things up as CLO spreads go everywhere
Ahead of the US Labor Day weekend, CLO issuers have been grafting away with $6.5 billion pricing across the US market through 11 deals

Deutsche Bank's CLO desk wins new client after pricing HPS deal
Deutsche Bank has issued its first CLO transaction in partnership with HPS Investment Partners

CLO round-up: reset triple As price apart on divergent portfolios
CLO spreads have been volatile of late with seemingly no consistency in triple A CLO prints from deal to deal. In a reset-heavy week, BlackRock and Marathon Asset Management were positioned at opposite ends of the spectrum

Barclays prices US deal for new client as its CLO push gains momentum
Barclays is strengthening its US CLO business, and this was evident yesterday after it gained a new client - the largest CLO manager in the business

Debtwire: Highland slams chapter 11 trustee over Acis CLOs as Brigade and Oaktree wait in the wings
Highland Capital Management is preparing for battle this month over the fate of Acis Capital Management, a CLO manager affiliate placed into bankruptcy by its former partner Josh Terry. Three options are on the table, with Oaktree, Brigade and Terry potentially taking prominent roles

Axa IM prepares short-dated CLO reissue via Goldman
AXA Investment Managers is working with Goldman Sachs to reissue its second US CLO, Allegro CLO II

US CLO round-up: volatility moves pricing curve out of whack
CLO triple As have been pricing at wildly different levels - that's the long and the short of it

Oak Hill resets post-reinvestment CLO from 2013
Oak Hill Advisors and JP Morgan have teamed up to reset a 2013 vintage CLO that was a year out of reinvestment