Angelo Gordon keeps hold of mezz tranches with mid market CLO
Angelo Gordon has moved into middle market CLOs by printing its first deal backed by loans to middle market companies. The firm retained all junior and mezzanine liabilities in a deal that appears not to carry a public rating

Antares and Palmer Square give new life to legacy CLOs via resets
Antares Capital Management and Palmer Square Capital Management each reset a CLO on Tuesday, with the two deals worth a combined $964.8 million

Maranon prints first new issue of year with Wells Fargo
Maranon Capital on Monday evening priced its first new issue CLO of the year, via Wells Fargo

Bain and Blue Owl upsize middle market CLOs with resets
Bain Capital Credit and Blue Owl Capital each reset a middle market CLO on Monday, with both managers opting to upsize their vehicles without changing the equity tranche sizes

Barings jostles cap stack with mid-market CLO reset
Barings has reset a middle market CLO it signed in 2017, increasing the overall size of the deal slightly with a shift in weighting between the single A minus and triple B minus pieces

Guggenheim prints first new CLO in 18 months
Guggenheim Investments on Thursday issued its first new CLO in over 18 months

Capital One scores first solo CLO arranging credit for Brightwood Capital
Captial One Securities has priced its first CLO as sole placement agent by arranging a middle market deal for Brightwood Advisors

CLO refi and reset volumes surge with $2.3 billion priced on Friday
CLO refi and reset volumes surged on Friday with $2.3 billion priced across the US market, according to market sources. Brigade Capital Management, MidOcean Credit Partners and New Mountain Capital reset regular-way CLOs, Blackstone Credit scored a regular CLO refi, Sculptor Capital Management refinanced a bond-heavy CLO, and Ivy Hill Asset Management reset a middle market CLO

"Never have the choices for issuers been more varied, nor the market dynamics more complex"
Direct lending deal terms are becoming more attractive in Europe

Credit Suisse plans mid market CLO push as it prices PennantPark deal
Credit Suisse arranged its first CLO backed by middle market loans in almost four years on Friday, pairing with PennantPark to print the manager's latest new issue deal

First Eagle prints fourth middle market CLO
First Eagle Investment Management has priced its fourth and largest middle market CLO, bringing its mid market deals under management to $1.5 billion

Golub prints largest reinvesting CLO of 2021 at $950 million
Golub Capital Partners priced the largest reinvesting CLO of the year so far on Tuesday

Cerberus prints tightest middle market CLO of 2021
Cerberus Loan Management priced its fourth middle market CLO of the year on Thursday, bringing its 2021 issuance volume over $1.5 billion

Audax prints its largest middle market CLO to date
Audax Private Debt has issued its largest CLO to date named Audax Senior Debt CLO 6, which came in at $601.35 million

Silver Point makes CLO debut with $400m middle market deal
Silver Point Capital has become the third manager to debut in US CLOs after printing its first CLO on Friday

KKR prints largest new CLO of 2021 with static mid market deal
KKR Credit has priced the largest new issue CLO of the year to date, teaming with Bank of America on the huge $1.13 billion static deal named KKR Lending Partners III

SMBC Nikko builds on CLO momentum with mid market deal for Monroe
SMBC Nikko has picked up its third CLO credit this year

Golub adds BSL CLO and extends mid-market advantage with reset
Golub Capital Partners has followed up its hefty middle market CLO in July with a slightly smaller $559.1 million broadly syndicated loan deal via Credit Suisse as well as a reset of a 2020 transaction

"It’s not unusual for investors to toggle between the US and Europe depending on pricing and terms"
The accents may be different, but US and European direct lending markets have a lot in common

Credit investors seek alpha as delta variant creates volatility
The leveraged loan and private debt markets have been on a tear for the first half of the year, but analysts are forecasting a more volatile six months ahead

BlackRock issues low levered, mid-market CLO with two arrangers
BlackRock has priced its second CLO of the year backed by loans to middle market companies

Credit Rendezvous: And breathe...
The unanimous verdict is that credit spreads will be moving wider – they have to. But the difficulty credit fund managers face is predicting when the next sell-off comes and how sharp it will be. In the Q3 instalment of Creditflux’s Credit Rendezvous, the over-riding message from portfolio managers is that there’s little point in taking on too much risk. The report features the views of prominent credit figures including Paul Horvath (Orchard), Himani Trivedi (Nuveen), Ronnie Jaber (Onex), Graham Rainbow (Alcentra) and Michelle Russell-Dowe (Schroders). The report looks at 14 segments of the market including CLOs, direct lending, leveraged loans, distressed debt and credit derivatives.  

Golub issues 2021's third-largest middle market CLO
Golub Capital Partners has issued the third-largest middle market CLO of 2021 to date

Barings completes first middle market CLO since 2019
Barings has issued its first CLO backed by middle market loans since October 2019

Cerberus prints lesser-spotted CLO reissue
Cerberus Loan Management priced a rare CLO reissue on Wednesday in just the fourth deal of this flavour of transaction to print in 2021