MidOcean seeks "off-the-run" loans and bonds for third tactical credit fund
MidOcean Partners is seeking to raise capital for its third tactical credit fund, MidOcean Tactical Credit Fund III

Credit funds at a glance (April 2022)
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit  

US CLO portfolio manager to join Onex
Onex Credit Partners has moved quickly to fill the void left by the departure of its head of US CLOs

US manager hires Invesco CLO PM as it rebuilds
An experienced US CLO portfolio manager is set to join a credit firm that has in the last few months focused on rebuilding its CLO franchise 

MidOcean announces promotions in credit business
Two portfolio managers are among those to earn promotion at MidOcean Partners 

Credit Rendezvous: the upside of inflation
It is clear, inflation is not transitory and central banks are acting with several interest rate hikes likely in store for the US this year. That makes loans and CLO debt tranches attractive, but there could be opportunities beyond these floating rate assets

CLO portfolio manager leaves MidOcean
An important figure in MidOCean's CLO business has left the firm. MidOcean has big hiring plans, but is in a CLO issuance drought having not priced a new deal since November 2019

Former Goldman CLO syndication head joins MidOcean in business development role
MidOcean Partners has hired a former CLO and ABS syndication head at Goldman Sachs as managing director 

Bennett Goodman's Hunter Point buys stake in MidOcean
Hunter Point, which was launched by Blackstone Credit’s co-founder Bennett Goodman alongside Avi Kalichstein in 2020, has made its first investment and bought a minority stake in mid-market specialist MidOcean

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

Senior research analyst joins Onex from another US CLO issuer
Onex Credit Partners has hired senior research analyst with 11 years' industry experience 

Five refis add $1.43 billion to CLO market
The CLO primary market has absorbed another $1.43 billion of refinancing paper as five managers printed cost-cutting transactions

Issuers offer bespoke CLO terms to wealthy investors
An expanding group of well-capitalised investors is leading CLO issuers to tweak deal structures to offer tailored investments

MidOcean employs rare tranche structure with 2016 US CLO reset
MidOcean Credit Fund Management has reset a 2016 vintage US CLO via Jefferies, upping the deal size slightly and shaving its funding costs in an unusual reconfiguration of tranches

MidOcean redistributes lead CLO PM responsibilities following departure
MidOcean has moved to cover gaps left by the exit of Jim Wiant, who was responsible for CLO strategies as well as its long-only, opportunistic credit customised strategies

Don’t obsess over the state of your OC cushions
During Creditflux’s live CLO webinar last month, panellists agreed that fighting to keep an over-collateralisation test in compliance could do more harm than good in the long term

Akorn falls into bankruptcy with $321 million planted in CLOs
CLOs hold $321.3 million of specialty pharmaceutical company Akorn’s debt, according to the latest trustee reports from CLO-I, with the firm having filed for chapter 11 protection in the US District Court for the District of Delaware yesterday

New CLO affected as Fitch puts eight US single A tranches on negative watch
Fitch Ratings today added another 19 CLO tranches to its negative watch list, including eight that an original rating of single A, according to a statement from the rating agency

2016 MidOcean CLO suffers downgrade to triple C amid par losses
Moody’s has downgraded the junior-most debt tranche in MidOcean Credit CLO V to Caa1

Flurry of US CLO refis takes year's tally to 16
Four US CLO refinancings took place on Friday, underlining that 12- to 18-month deals can price their senior liabilities in the low 100s

MidOcean Credit co-founder leaves to head PE firm's credit expansion
Multi-strategy private equity firm Siguler Guff has poached a co-founder of MidOcean Credit Partners to lead the expansion of its credit platform

Deluxe decline leaves CLOs feeling deflated
Deluxe looked decent: trading in the 90s for much of this year, with 60% of its term loan sitting in CLO portfolios. But its rapid descent underlines the dangers posed by idiosyncratic events.

Deluxe decline leaves CLOs feeling deflated

MidOcean ends 15-month break from new issue CLOs after making big hires
Having made two key hires in the last few months, MidOcean Credit Partners has priced its first new issue US CLO since July 2018