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Published on 2/19/2020 in the Prospect News CLO Daily.

CSAM plans third refinancing of CLO; refinancings outpace new CLO issues year to date

By Cristal Cody

Tupelo, Miss., Feb. 19 – Credit Suisse Asset Management, LLC plans to price $450 million of notes in a third refinancing of a vintage 2016 broadly syndicated CLO.

The refinancing space remains strong in 2020 with more than $9 billion of vintage CLOs refinanced year to date, outpacing new issue supply of more than $6 billion, according to market sources.

Several more dollar-denominated vintage CLOs are expected to be refinanced soon, a source said.

In other activity, securitized secondary trading was moderate on Tuesday following the market holiday on Monday, Trace data shows.

During the session, $194.48 million of high-grade CBO/CDO/CLO paper and $44.75 million of lower-rated CBO/CDO/CLO issues were traded.

The investment-grade securities traded at a 98.40 average price and 96.90 weighted average price, while the non-high-grade issues traded at an average 97.20 price and 97.80 weighted average price.

CSAM to price notes

Credit Suisse Asset Management plans to price $450 million of notes due Jan. 24, 2028 in the refinancing transaction, according to a notice of proposed fourth supplemental indenture.

The Madison Park Funding XIX Ltd./Madison Park Funding XIX LLC refinancing deal includes $396 million of class A-1-R2 floating-rate notes (expected ratings Aaa//AAA), $59.8 million of class A-2-R2 floating-rate notes (expected rating Aa2), $16 million of class B-1-R2 deferrable floating-rate notes (expected rating A2) and $14.2 million of class B-2-R2 deferrable floating-rate notes (expected rating A2).

MUFG is the refinancing placement agent.

The original $609.75 million CLO was issued on Dec. 29, 2015 and was partially refinanced on March 2, 2018 and on May 16, 2019.

Credit Suisse Asset Management is a unit of Credit Suisse Group AG.


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