Zais prices its second new CLO of the year with triple As at 120bp
Zais Group teamed up with JP Morgan yesterday to price its ninth CLO, according to market sources

Price talk widens for forthcoming Zais CLO
Price talk has widened for Zais Group’s forthcoming CLO Zais CLO 9, a new issue deal that’s expected to price via JP Morgan later this month

Zais partners with JP Morgan to arrange forthcoming CLO
Zais Group is working with JP Morgan to arrange its second new issue CLO of 2018 named Zais CLO 9

Zais hit with class action filing over proposed go-private deal
A Zais Group stockholder has filed a putative class action lawsuit against the firm, taking aim at Zais’s plans to merge with subsidiary ZGH Merger Sub and Zugel’s firm Z Acquisition – a plan that would result in the company going private

Zais opts for three-year reinvestment period as it issues new US CLO
Zais Group has taken advantage of demand for short-dated CLO paper by pricing a new US CLO with a three-year reinvestment period

Zais achieves its best execution yet with new US CLO
The $564 million deal priced yesterday, and is set to close on 19 October

Founder looks to take structured credit manager Zais private
Founder Christian Zugel has bid to take Zais Group private, ending its two year stint as a public company

L-shape position trades from manager's 2016 US CLO
Several of the debt tranches and a sizeable amount of equity in Zais CLO 5 traded from a b-wic yesterday, in one of the more unusual secondary CLO market trades of recent times.

Spread decline makes style vital
It’s not the number of CLOs you manage, it’s how you manage them: with 62 US firms pricing CLOs this year, managers are keen to stand out from the crowd

Zais CLO equity attracts high price in secondary market
An investor, who had seen a Zais CLO return 100% of capital through equity distributions alone, has sold the top-performing CLO's equity notes 

Investor looks to sell entire equity tranche of unique 2014 US CLO
Equity holder looks to offload deal with unique triple A tranche

Zais takes L-shaped bite out of its new MOA-backed CLO
Zais Group has experimented with an L-shaped risk-retention solution for its latest CLO, which priced yesterday via JP Morgan

Zais prepares to launch fourth CLO in static $281 million deal
Zais is gearing up to price its first CLO of the year in a static $281 million deal, according to market sources

I started thinking about term funding on mezzanine
Zais's Christian Zugel takes our credit quiz

Credit firm emerges as warehouse investor in forthcoming Zais CLO
A company which is active across credit has made its first new issue CLO investment in years. A portfolio manager at Zais appears to be the key to the trade

Manager turns to old deals for loan assets in preparation of new CLO
US loans have gone out of a CLO manager's old deals and into a new one

CLO fund manager hires marketing specialist from Zais
A structured credit professional has ended a nine year affiliation with Zais to join a large CLO equity investor

Zais prices landmark first CLO since going public
Zais has priced its third CLO and first since going public last month

Manager will tap $175 million of new capital for CLO risk retention role
A structured credit manager has disclosed plans to act as a CLO risk retention provider after securing a large balance sheet injection

JP Morgan markets second deal for new CLO manager
The $333 million CLO is set to price this week