Alternative asset manager Sculptor Capital Management has announced the closing of Sculptor CLO XXXVI at $400m (£295.6m).
With the close of CLO 36 – Sculptor’s 36th collateralised loan obligation (CLO) – the firm now manages a suite of CLOs and CBOs totaling approximately $13.2bn across both the US and Europe.
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Sculptor CLO 36 is backed by a near-fully ramped $400m portfolio of senior secured loans, with the transaction’s AAA tranche priced at SOFR+125 basis points.
The firm said this surpasses the recently-closed CLO 37 as the tightest new-issue pricing achieved by the platform for a transaction with a five-year reinvestment and two-year non-call period.
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It said the deal attracted strong demand across both debt and equity tranches from a diverse group of leading global institutional investors. Wells Fargo served as the arranger.
“Kicking off 2026 with the closing of CLO 36 underscores the continued momentum of our credit platform. Strong investor demand and disciplined portfolio construction enabled us to achieve our tightest new-issue pricing to date for a transaction of this structure,” said Josh Eisenberger, executive managing director and Sculptor’s head of US CLO management.
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CLO 36 marks Sculptor’s first new issue CLO of 2026 and follows an active 2025 for the platform, during which it completed eight transactions. With the closing of the CLO, the firm has issued 49 CLOs and CBOs across the US and Europe since 2012.
