The
EU Securitisation Regulation1 (the
"Securitisation Regulation") will come
into effect on 1 January 2019, bringing a number of changes to the
European risk retention regime for CLO transactions2; in
particular, Article 7 of the Securitisation Regulation will
increase the scope and nature of the transparency and disclosure
requirements applicable to issuers, sponsors and originators of CLO
transactions3.
On 22 August 2018, the European Securities and Markets Authority
("ESMA") released its
draft regulatory technical standards (the "ESMA
Draft RTS") setting out detailed requirements for
information to be provided to satisfy Article 7. 4 Under
the ESMA Draft RTS, CLO transactions would have been required to
provide information under Annexes 4 (Corporate Underlying
Exposures) and 12 (Investor Report Information) and,
for 'public' transactions (where a Prospectus
Directive5 compliant prospectus is
produced6), Annexes 14 (Inside Information) and
16 (Significant