93850823-1In anticipation of the effective date of the Final Rule on December 24, 2016 (early Christmas gift?), CLO market participants have been constructing solutions that allow collateral managers to raise the capital necessary to support investments required by the Final Rule.

We have seen an increased use of a hybrid structure that has been referred

93850823-1More than 100 senior executives participated in Dechert’s Risk and Rewards of CRE-CLO and CLO Securitizations: Navigating the Capital Markets seminar.  The half day event, supported by  CRE Finance Council (CREFC) and the Loan Syndications and Trading Association (LSTA), focused on themes important to the CLO market and the CRE securitization market.  Panelists addressed

93850823-1As time goes by we start to get close to the first of two risk retention effective dates; December 24, 2015 for residential product and everything else looming December 24, 2016 (does anyone really think a Christmas Eve Effective Date was unintentional?  Bah, Humbug!).  More and more attention is now beginning to focus on the Risk Retention.  We are grappling with the Rule right now in our resi market, in the CLO space where reissuance is a common deal feature (bringing forward 2017 concerns to today’s deals) and in the Single Family Rental (SFR) space which, much like the coupling of a donkey and a horse, is an oddly structured mule of a deal where no one is certain when risk retention will apply.
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