{"id":398982,"date":"2020-12-14T08:33:25","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T13:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/?p=398982"},"modified":"2020-12-14T08:33:25","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T13:33:25","slug":"alliancebernstein-closes-inaugural-transaction-for-clo-management-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/alliancebernstein-closes-inaugural-transaction-for-clo-management-business\/","title":{"rendered":"AllianceBernstein Closes Inaugural Transaction for CLO Management Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-newslines\">\n<p class=\"xn-distributor\">PR Newswire<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p>\n        <span class=\"xn-location\">NEW YORK<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Dec. 14, 2020<\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212;\u00a0AllianceBernstein L.P. (&#8220;AB&#8221;) (NYSE: AB), a leading global investment manager, today announced the closing of AB BSL CLO I, a <span class=\"xn-money\">$405.4 million<\/span> collateralized loan obligation (CLO) with Morgan Stanley acting as lead arranger. This marks the inaugural CLO for the firm&#8217;s broadly syndicated loan and CLO management business established in 2019 and led by <span class=\"xn-person\">Scott Macklin<\/span>, and initially funded with investments from Equitable Financial Life Insurance Company.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are delighted by the positive response to the transaction from a wide range of institutional investors and the continued relationship with Equitable. The quality of execution reflects confidence in the firm&#8217;s long-tenured leveraged finance platform,&#8221; said <span class=\"xn-person\">Gershon Distenfeld<\/span>, Co-Head of Fixed Income and Director of Credit at AB.\u00a0 &#8220;We look forward to our continued growth in this market and delivering strong results for our clients over the coming years.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The firm&#8217;s middle market direct lending platform, AB Private Credit Investors, has issued nine CLO transactions since 2016 totaling <span class=\"xn-money\">$3.1 billion<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>\n        <b>About AllianceBernstein<\/b>\n      <\/p>\n<p>AllianceBernstein is a leading global investment management firm that offers high-quality research and diversified investment services to institutional investors, individuals and private wealth clients in major world markets.<\/p>\n<p>As of <span class=\"xn-chron\">September 30, 2020<\/span>, including both the general partnership and limited partnership interests in AllianceBernstein, AllianceBernstein Holding owned approximately 35.5% of AllianceBernstein and Equitable Holdings, Inc. (&#8220;EQH&#8221;), directly and through various subsidiaries, owned an approximate 65.3% economic interest in AllianceBernstein.<\/p>\n<p>Additional information about AB may be found on our website, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3010816-1&amp;h=2235308956&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.alliancebernstein.com%2F&amp;a=www.alliancebernstein.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">www.alliancebernstein.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"PURL\">\n        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Cision\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\" alt=\"Cision\" src=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/img\/favicon.png?sn=NY21782&amp;sd=2020-12-14\" \/> View original content:<a id=\"PRNURL\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/alliancebernstein-closes-inaugural-transaction-for-clo-management-business-301191743.html\">http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/alliancebernstein-closes-inaugural-transaction-for-clo-management-business-301191743.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE  AllianceBernstein<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/rt.prnewswire.com\/rt.gif?NewsItemId=NY21782&amp;Transmission_Id=202012140830PR_NEWS_USPR_____NY21782&amp;DateId=20201214\" style=\"border:0px;width:1px;height:1px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PR Newswire NEW YORK, Dec. 14, 2020 \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212;\u00a0AllianceBernstein L.P. (&#8220;AB&#8221;) (NYSE: AB), a leading global investment manager, today announced the closing of AB BSL CLO I, a $405.4 million collateralized loan obligation (CLO) with Morgan Stanley acting as lead arranger. This marks the inaugural CLO for the firm&#8217;s broadly syndicated loan and CLO management business established in 2019 and led by Scott Macklin, and initially funded with investments from Equitable Financial Life Insurance Company. &#8220;We are delighted by the positive response to the transaction from a wide range of institutional investors and the continued relationship with Equitable. The quality of execution reflects confidence in the firm&#8217;s long-tenured leveraged finance platform,&#8221; said Gershon Distenfeld, Co-Head of Fixed Income and Director &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/alliancebernstein-closes-inaugural-transaction-for-clo-management-business\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;AllianceBernstein Closes Inaugural Transaction for CLO Management Business&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>AllianceBernstein Closes Inaugural Transaction for CLO Management Business - Market Newsdesk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/alliancebernstein-closes-inaugural-transaction-for-clo-management-business\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"AllianceBernstein Closes Inaugural Transaction for CLO Management Business - Market Newsdesk\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"PR Newswire NEW YORK, Dec. 14, 2020 \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212;\u00a0AllianceBernstein L.P. 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