Three CLO managers join rush to refi or reprice fixed rate CLO tranches
Three CLO managers - American Money Management Corporation, Teachers Advisors, and ArrowMark Colorado Holdings - have jumped on the fixed rate CLO refinancing or repricing trend

Octagon scores one of CLO market's biggest coupon cuts with repricing
Octagon Credit Investors has joined the trend of managers looking to reprice CLO tranches. The manager teamed up with Bank of America to reprice the fixed rate debt of Octagon Investment Partners 27 in a $22.5 million transaction

KKR prices its first new US CLO since January
KKR has priced its first new issue US CLO post-covid, after teaming with Credit Suisse to issue the $450.75 millon deal named KKR CLO 30

Dach mid-market lending is 'back to business', GCA Altium survey reveals
Mid-market lenders in the German-speaking region appear to be back to business, with around 90% of banks and debt funds open to evaluate new financing opportunities, according to a September survey by GCA Altium

Anchorage prices first five-year CLO structure since March
Five-year CLO structures have returned for the first time since the coronavirus outbreak, thanks to a bond flex deal issued by Anchorage Capital Group

10-day US CLO warehouses open up as managers split transactions
A report by Maples Group finds there have been several opportunistic US CLO warehouses that have launched since mid-June with durations as short as 10 days

BlackRock plans first European CLO of 2020
Barclays has begun marketing its second European CLO in September with the bank arranging a deal for a large asset manager

Black Diamond prices first CLO primary deal for over 12 months with refi
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

Lenders aren’t as adventurous, but they realise if they don’t act now, 2020 will be a lost year
 

Bankers, private equity firms and corporate lenders are all looking for new ways of doing business

The length of a CLO’s reinvestment period has no substantive effect on its resilience to defaults
Three-year reinvestment CLOs are the norm, but debt investors should be locking in historically wide spreads for longer

It’s been a while — how’s tricks?

Fair Oaks markets third European CLO
Fair Oaks Capital is marketing a third European CLO, Fair Oaks Loan Funding III, just five months after pricing its second deal

US CLO league tables: AGL grabs new issue lead
AGL Credit Management has added to an impressive run of CLO deal-making, pricing its fifth US new issue of 2020

Euro CLO league tables: Deer Park takes GSO to top and gets Deutsche off the mark
For the second time in as many months a new name sits at the top of the European rankings as GSO Capital Partners takes the throne

Global CLO league tables - August 2020 YTD
Global CLO league tables - August 2020 YTD

Ticked off: European loan docs turn aggressive
Documentation for European loans tightened in the immediate aftermath of the March sell-off, with lender-friendly terms around additional debt baskets, dividend levels and acquisition thresholds. But aggressive terms are creeping back into the market

Direct lenders turn to attractive non-sponsored deals
Non-sponsored deal flow has increased in August and lenders are grabbing the opportunity. These deals typically exhibit a premium to sponsored deals, but with plenty of cash chasing middle market M&A, lenders have previously found quality deals tough to find

CLOs at a glance: CLO managers are quite partial to a refi
There was a wave of CLO partial refinancing in August as equity investors capitalised on lower interest rates to cut the coupon on fixed rate tranches

First Eagle prices one-year mid market CLO
First Eagle has priced its latest CLO backed by middle market loans

RBC arranges two US CLO tranche refis
Barings and PineBridge each priced their first US CLO transactions of 2020 after refinancing fixed rate tranches from 2018 vintage deals, according to market sources

CLO pipeline: Allstate looks to end 15-month new issue absence
Allstate is among those managers looking to issue a CLO as the primary market heads into September, traditionally one of the busiest months in the new issue calendar

Sound Point goes refi route for fixed notes of 2018 CLO
Sound Point Capital management is the latest CLO manager to refinance the fixed rate debt in one of its CLOs after working with Goldman Sachs to slash funding costs on Sound Point CLO XIX

Oak Hill refinances fixed rate notes from 2012 CLO
Oak Hill Advisors has refinanced the double A notes of its oldest CLO, OHA Credit Partners VII, which originally issued in 2012

Barclays prices Brigade US CLO after picking up mandate last week
Barclays has priced the new CLO for Brigade Capital Management that it dramatically grabbed the rights for last week after Citi resigned its role as arranger

Brigade picks Barclays to get CLO over the line after Citi steps down
Brigade Capital Management has assigned the mandate for an upcoming CLO to Barclays after Citi resigned from its role as arranger last week, sources say