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Black Diamond returns to the CLO primary market with a 2019 refi
16 days ago
Black Diamond reunited with Mizuho yesterday to price its first deal in over 18 months – a refinancing of its Black Diamond CLO 2019-2 -
Diameter joins the 2022 reset club
5 months ago
New York-based Diameter Capital Partners priced a reset of its largest CLO to date last week, with the debt tranches on the 2022-vintage Diameter Capital CLO 4 upsized from USD 445m to 451.25 -
Beneath the triple C: Winter is coming for CLOs as downgrades outstrip upgrades
1 year ago
Both US and European issuers have felt downward pressure from the rating agencies as we head towards the end of the year, with downgrades to triple C now firmly outpacing upgrades out of it. -
Black Diamond prints rare five-year reinvestment CLO with three-year call lock
1 year ago
Black Diamond Capital Management has priced its first CLO in over a year, opting for an unusual duration structure with a full five-year reinvestment period and an unusual three-year call lock -
US CLO pipeline: $100bn new issue mark about to be surpassed
1 year ago
Seven US CLO managers join one holdover in the new issue US CLO pipeline this week, as the market bears down on $100 billion of new issuance in 2022 -
Envision exchange leaves some lenders sick, but CSAM finds prevention is better than cure
2 years ago
Envision Healthcare’s distressed debt exchange has rocked the CLO market, with over $1.68 billion of the firm’s loans held by US CLOs. But some of the largest managers have avoided the name completely -
Global CLO trading lab: Payments season prompts equity to surge but short-dated bonds trade low
2 years ago
Over the last two weeks, $2.8 billion of US CLOs and €640 million of European CLO paper have appeared on b-wics, with equity making up 33% and 40% of the respective markets -
US CLO league tables: Blackstone takes new issue lead amid monthly new issue record
2 years ago
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 -
Black Diamond returns to CLO primary with first new issue in two years
2 years ago
Black Diamond Capital Management made its long-awaited return to the CLO primary market on Friday with its first new issue deal in over two years -
US CLO pipeline: 1.0 manager returning, Carlyle going for CLO 10 as market goes to 100
2 years ago
Never in 1,000 years would the critics have expected this -
US and European triple As diverge in Black Diamond multi-currency CLO refi
2 years ago
Black Diamond Capital Management has partially refinanced its 2019 European CLO, Black Diamond CLO 2019-1, which has its triple A notes split three ways through a mixture of euro-denominated and US dollar-denominated tranches -
US CLO pipeline: 33 new issues enter market with historic CLO records on the verge of shattering
2 years ago
The US CLO market is running as hot as it has all year with a whopping 33 managers marketing new issues CLOs, according to market sources -
Ares and Black Diamond become latest CLO managers to refinance
2 years ago
US CLO refi supply climbed to $3.2 billion for the month of July on Thursday after Ares Management and Black Diamond Capital Management became the latest firms to refinance -
Alcentra and Black Diamond print unusual CLO refis with variable call structures
3 years ago
Black Diamond Capital Management and Alcentra have priced unusual CLO refinancings in the last few days. Uniquely among post-covid deals, the two managers have completed fixed-note refis where different tranches of their CLOs will have variable non-call periods -
Global CLO b-wic round-up: CLO lower mezz tightens while equity investors strive for duration
3 years ago
A large supply of CLO paper flooded the secondary market last week as $1.5 billion of US CLO bonds and €370 million of European CLOs were listed, according to CLO-i -
Global CLO b-wic round-up: dealers get involved amid rally, but dispersion persists
3 years ago
The CLO secondary markets returned to form last week with $716.2 million of US CLO bonds and a further €306.5 million of European CLO paper listed. Although for both markets over half of the total volume listed came from Thursday’s scheduled b-wics -
Black Diamond prices first CLO primary deal for over 12 months with refi
3 years ago
Black Diamond Capital Management has joined the fixed-rate CLO refinancing surge by teaming up with Goldman Sachs to refinance two tranches of Black Diamond 2016-1 -
OC health check: all quiet on the overcollateralisation front
3 years ago
Eight US broadly syndicated loan CLOs reported overcollateralisation test breaches last week during a quiet reporting period in which only 40 CLOs published a trustee report, according to CLO-i, but focus is turning to the swathe of CLO distributions coming due. -
Global CLO b-wic round-up: CLO lower mezz spreads tighten back after volatile two weeks
3 years ago
Secondary CLO spreads in the US and European markets have recovered after moving wider over the last two weeks -
Black Diamond CLO fails with buy back offer
3 years ago
Black Diamond CLO 2015-1’s offer to buy back senior notes has not gone through after the CLO’s class A1 and A2 investors did not submit any bonds -
Black Diamond multi-currency CLO looks to buy back senior debt at 98.75%
4 years ago
Black Diamond CLO 2015-1 is voluntarily offering to pay down its senior debt -
US CLO issuers get pricing signals as triple As trade in secondary at 375bp
4 years ago
Would-be US CLO issuers were given an indication of pricing levels yesterday after a CLO that turns static in July hit the secondary market -
Ellington expands CLO team by hiring Black Diamond loan specialist
4 years ago
Ellington Management Group has hired an associate portfolio manager to its loan team -
Global CLO b-wic round-up: control equity hits the market as secondary market picks up
4 years ago
The CLO secondary market in both Europe and the US brought healthy volumes last week. There was €174.9 million listed in the European CLO secondary market, while the US returned a with just over $600 million in CLO b-wics. -
Euro CLO league tables: three debutants, but familiar faces stay top
4 years ago
June brought €3.4 billion of European CLO issuance between seven new issues and two refinancings. Of the seven new issue European CLOs priced last month, three were from debut managers to the continent
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