BlackRock prices second short-dated reset with additional junior tranche
BlackRock has priced its second short-dated CLO reset in as many weeks, this time teaming up with Citi to arrange the deal

Comvest raises $836 million for leveraged direct lending fund
Following its rebrand in November, middle-market lender Comvest Credit Partners has exceeded the $650 million target size for it fourth direct lending fund 

US CLO round-up: spreads tighten as investors get comfortable with cushions
2018 is off to a promising start with the US CLO market having produced $7.0 billion of issuance

BlackRock adds new single B tranche in unusual CLO refi
The manager priced a refi with a twist yesterday its first CLO deal of 2018 yesterday 

Fresh-faced US CLO manager doubles AUM with latest new issue
A new CLO manager teamed up with RBC to price a new issue CLO on Friday, bringing its AUM up to $897.65 million

Ares keeps up direct lending growth and plans new credit fund launch
Ares Management’s credit business just keeps growing, with the firm planning a new fund launch and a continued push into European direct lending, according to a recent results presentation

CLO managers return to new issues
The frenetic pace of refis and resets slowed in the third quarter as CLO managers – new and old – turned their attention to building assets

Price talk for forthcoming Elevation CLO triple As at 122bp
325 Fillmore's forthcoming CLO deal, known as Elevation CLO 2017-7, will pay a 122 basis point print on its triple A notes, according to market sources

Sound Point turns up the volume as it prices two CLO refis in a day
Sound Point Capital Management teamed up with Morgan Stanley to price two CLO refinancings yesterday

US CLO round-up: debutants and giants combine in huge week of issuance
Six new issues have priced this week - with the manager list including an AUM leader, a debutant, a renamed manager and a firm that has waited 916 days to re-enter the CLO market, before pricing two deals in two days

Sound Point goes vertical as it prices new issue CLO
Sound Point has priced its eighth CLO transaction this year, bringing its total issuance for 2017 over $4.5 billion

Credit giant prices $1 billion CLO with Morgan Stanley
The largest CLO manager in the industry has just added another $1 billion to its AUM

Guardian Life subsidiary plans its second CLO with JP Morgan
Price talk is circulating on the mezzanine and junior notes of a deal being launched by a boutique CLO manager

US CLO round-up: New Jersey managers come to market in style
After a slow start following Labor day, four US CLOs have priced this week – including a deal arranged by Goldman Sachs for Zais

RBC prices its first deal for Cincinnati-based manager
The CLO is the first time RBC has worked with the manager on a CLO deal

CBAM brings its 2017 CLO issuance to over $4 billion with latest deal
CBAM priced its third new issue CLO worth $1.3 billion on Friday, according to market sources

CSAM prices its 16th CLO transaction of 2017
The manager teamed up with JP Morgan to price its fourth new issue US CLO of the year, according to market sources

US CLO round-up: 2017's leading managers come back for more
Three of the most active managers in the CLO market this year – including two who dared venture into the primary market in the opening weeks of 2017 – returned to price their latest CLO transactions this week. We look at which managers have been most active in 2017 across new issue, refis and resets

European CLO triple-A spreads hit 73bp as Carlyle prices refi
Carlyle has scored the tightest spread on a European CLO this year following a refi of a 2015-vintage deal, according to market sources

KKR prices triple As at 123bp in latest CLO reset featuring a yen repack
KKR Credit has priced a reset of its 2014-vintage deal KKR CLO 10. The reset triple As priced at 123bp - which is inside two new issues that have printed this week

CLO round-up: it's a good time to be a debut manager
New managers are taking advantage of welcoming debt investors by speedily raising CLOs. Our analysis shows that 2017 is the perhaps the best time to price a debut CLO since 2013

Spotlight: Local exchange carriers - calling for rescue on the M&A hotline
Growth-starved US phone companies are seeing consolidation as the best way to improve performance

Fast-growing CBAM tops 2017 CLO rankings with another huge US deal
CBAM only gets out of bed for $1 billion-plus CLOs it seems. The credit manager debuted as a CLO manager in June and has now racked up $2.8 billion in AUM in this area.

Morgan Stanley gets busy in the US CLO primary market
Morgan Stanley’s team was busy in the US CLO primary market yesterday, pricing not only the refi of a large 2015 CLO, but a third new deal of 2017 for one of the market's biggest managers