Bryant Park Funding CLO Management LLC

Bryant Park Funding CLO Management LLC is organized to serve as collateral manager for collateralized loan obligations (CLOs) and to provide advisory services to CLO warehouse facilities. The firm’s brochure notes it was formed in 2024, currently has no clients or regulatory assets under management, and will rely on Marathon Asset Management under a staff and services arrangement to operate and provide investment personnel and support.

The firm describes a bottom‑up, research‑intensive credit approach focused on global corporate credit and leveraged loans, drawing on credit selection, trading and workout expertise and securitization experience to construct CLO portfolios. Its investment activity is governed by each CLO’s governing documents, and compensation is described as the customary mix of percentage‑of‑assets management fees and potential performance‑based fees rather than flat or hourly billing.

What the brochure highlights as atypical for a pooled-vehicle manager are its marketing and affiliation arrangements: Bryant Park discloses that it may engage placement agents and solicitors and attend broker‑dealer‑sponsored events to solicit investors, and it operates within a multi‑series structure controlled by Marathon with Participating Affiliate arrangements (including a London affiliate) and potential sourcing/servicing partners. The brochure also details governance measures (allocation procedures, cross‑trade and valuation policies, and disclosure of affiliated service relationships) and notes an anticipated change in Marathon’s ownership, all of which create and address affiliate‑related conflicts that are less common among peers.