Deutsche Bank has priced notes backing GoldenTree Asset Management's roughly $650-700 million collateralized loan obligation. Market sources said the deal is slated to close next month. One banker close to the deal said the portfolio manager structured the deal in such a way to accommodate the deal's size and a collateral basket consisting of a percentage of revolvers. Officials at GoldenTree and Deutsche Bank declined to comment.
Market players said the manager has been ramping up the deal for the last few months with a structure whereby the manager can buy up revolvers, allowing the deal size to exceed the average $300-400 million deal size on a typical cash flow, arbitrage structures (LMW, 4/22). The size of the structure was originally discussed in the $300-400 million range and has grown as the deal has ramped. The Standard & Poor's triple-A tranche of the notes was said to have priced at LIBOR plus 47 basis points and the triple-B tranche at LIBOR plus 275 basis points.