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Linklaters’ global, multi-disciplinary private credit platform provides full-service, integrated support to the private credit sector. Our team draws upon the experience, know how and insight of market-leading individuals to advise private credit clients on their most complex matters, throughout all stages of the credit lifecycle. We advise clients from fund formation and fundraising, onto deployment of capital across an ever-expanding range of investment strategies, through to portfolio management and exit strategies. Linklaters is a leading global law firm, supporting clients in achieving their strategies wherever they do business. We work as one united team, with a common focus on innovation, efficiency and agility – putting our clients at the heart of all we do.
Partners
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As one of the world’s largest credit ratings agencies, Fitch Ratings plays a critical role in global capital markets by providing credit analysis, ratings, research, and commentary to financial market participants. For over 100 years, Fitch Ratings has been creating value for global markets through rigorous analysis and deep expertise, which have resulted in a variety of market leading tools, methodologies, indices, research, and analytical products. Fitch Ratings is part of Fitch Group, a global leader in financial information services with operations in 30 countries, which also includes Fitch Solutions. With dual headquarters in London and New York, Fitch Group is owned by Hearst. For additional information, please visit fitchratings.com.
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Argenta Private Capital Limited (“APCL”) offers ultra-high net worth private clients, corporates, and institutional investors, including sponsors and limited partners, a wide variety of ways to invest in the Lloyd’s of London insurance market. Operating for over 60 years, the firm specialises in creating tailor-made, tax efficient underwriting vehicles for a global client base, who currently support more than £5 billion of gross written premium in the Lloyd’s market. With a specialist research team, APCL assesses syndicate performance and global insurance trends to advise on tailored investment portfolios within the Lloyd’s space, ensuring alignment with clients’ risk and return objectives. The firm also delivers comprehensive structuring, tax advisory, and administration services as a part of their core offering. This integrated approach ensures clients receive timely advice on all aspects of their investment and greater control over their invested wealth – making participation at Lloyd’s as seamless as possible. -
Arini Capital Management is a specialized alternative asset manager with a diverse credit investment offering across public and private credit, supported by a highly sophisticated global institutional investor base. Arini was founded in 2021 with a primary focus on European credit markets and an approach rooted in fundamental credit analysis. As of 12/31/2025, Arini manages approximately ~$14.4bn billion across a range of strategies, including long/short credit, structured credit, opportunistic credit, direct lending and asset-backed finance. Arini has global operations in London, New York and Abu Dhabi. -
Barings is a $481+ billion* global asset management firm that partners with institutional, insurance, and intermediary clients, and supports leading businesses with flexible financing solutions. The firm, a subsidiary of MassMutual, seeks to deliver excess returns by leveraging its global scale and capabilities across public and private markets in fixed income, real assets and capital solutions.*As of December 31, 2025 -
Benefit Street Partners (BSP) is an alternative credit pioneer with $92 billion in assets under management (including Apera). It seeks to deliver attractive, risk-adjusted returns through its deep specialism, long-term relationships and global reach. A wholly owned subsidiary of Franklin Templeton, BSP is focused exclusively on credit. Through its disciplined, solutions-oriented approach, BSP unlocks opportunities across market cycles and geographies. The firm manages strategies spanning private debt, real estate debt, structured credit, and liquid loans. For more information, visit www.bspcredit.com -
Egan-Jones Ratings Company, founded in 1995, is a Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization (NRSRO) that issues timely, accurate credit ratings across private credit markets and asset classes. It gained credibility by flagging Enron and WorldCom failures and is recognized by the NAIC as a Credit Rating Provider. In 2025, Egan-Jones rated over 3,000 private debt deals. -
The Global Institute of Credit Professionals (GICP) is the go-to destination for credit professionals, offering a wealth of resources and support to help its members stay ahead in a competitive industry. The GICP promotes the highest standards within the credit industry, providing its members with the tools they need to excel. The GICP welcomes credit professionals looking to advance their careers and stay at the forefront of industry developments. Belonging to a community of experienced peers and having access to key resources provides GICP members with a strong foundation for career progression. -
Golub Capital is a market-leading, award-winning direct lender and experienced private credit manager. We specialize in delivering reliable, creative and compelling financing solutions to companies backed by private equity sponsors. The firm’s Direct Lending group provides buy-and-hold financing for sponsor-backed transactions with hold positions up to $1 billion and arranges syndicated credit facilities up to $2 billion. As of January 1, 2026, Golub Capital had over 1,100 employees and over $90 billion of capital under management, a gross measure of invested capital including leverage. The firm has offices in North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. For more information, please visit golubcapital.com. -
Indus Valley Partners (IVP) is a trusted transformation partner to leading alternative asset managers, including global leaders in private credit, private equity, and hybrid fund strategies. With 25 years focused exclusively on the buy side, IVP brings unmatched expertise in modernizing data, operating, and reporting infrastructures.Our integrated platform and services are purpose-built for the new era of AI-enabled investing, where operational leverage, data governance, and speed to insight drive returns as much as capital deployment. This foundation allows funds to create consistency across complex data ecosystems, accelerate decision-making, and unlock value from traditional and alternative datasets.IVP combines deep domain expertise in asset management operations with a proven track record across master data management, digital-first Managed Services, and enterprise-wide implementations. By partnering with IVP, fund managers gain a scalable, technology-enabled operating model designed to support growth, improve oversight, and enhance agility.For more information, visit www.indusvalleypartners.com -
Liquidity is the category‑defining AI‑native infrastructure for private credit, utilising its proprietary technology stack to deploy capital to growth and late‑stage venture‑backed companies with speed and discipline across 45+ sectors in every key global market. Built on institutional-grade decision‑science technology from day one, Liquidity’s predictive investment engine enables the firm and its partners to allocate capital with algorithmic precision to deliver superior risk‑adjusted returns.Liquidity has a 0.00% loss rate since 2019. Its AI infrastructure operates across the full credit lifecycle – from origination and underwriting to monitoring and collections – giving partners unprecedented real‑time intelligence, control and scalability that traditional systems cannot match. Liquidity is backed by leading financial institutions including MUFG Bank Ltd., Spark Capital, KeyBank, Cross River Bank, Meitav Dash, IDB Bank and others. Visit liquidity.com. -
Founded in 2013, Octus is the essential credit intelligence, data and workflow provider for the world’s leading buy-side firms, investment banks, law firms and advisory firms. By surrounding unparalleled human expertise with proven technology, data, and AI tools, Octus unlocks powerful truths that fuel decisive action across financial markets. Visit octus.com to learn how Octus delivers rigorously verified intelligence at speed and creates a complete picture across the credit lifecycle. Follow Octus on LinkedIn and X.
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Aluna Partners delivers integrated advisory, capital, and investment management solutions for every stage of growth.Credit Solutions (ABF and Trade Finance):Flexible, scalable financing through Asset-Backed Finance and Trade Finance, supporting originators, SMEs, and consumer lenders with securitised products, working capital, and supply chain solutions built around operational needs and strategic objectives.Investment Management:We deliver a three-dimensional credit strategy, Preserve, Perform, Protect, for all-weather returns. Focused on private credit, we structure portfolios in asset-backed finance and trade receivables through disciplined, research-led execution. Partnering with trusted originators and institutions, we provide clarity, consistency, and long-term alignment to achieve performance while managing risk responsibly. -
ARC Ratings is an international credit rating agency whose mission is to deliver global benchmark quality credit ratings, commentary and research by working with our clients’ businesses constructively to evaluate their credit risk, whilst offering an independent and objective assessment to investors. We are dedicated to improving the risk/reward decision-making capabilities of investors globally, while allowing issuers to access capital markets at premiums commensurate with their objectively assessed credit risk. Having been accorded the same ECAI mapping as the larger agencies, our ratings can thus be used for capital relief purposes under the standardised and rating based approach, as well as under Solvency II. Our aim is to produce honest and transparent ratings that are driven by our analysts’ deep subject matter understanding of the market, product and clients. We have designed criteria which clearly define our approach to ratings and are enveloped in our strong governance and culture.ARC Ratings is part of the ARC Risk Group, and sits alongside ARC Analytics, the newest provider of complimentary risk solutions to the market. ARC Analytics delivers access to a suite of Analytical Tools, Data and Insights which support market participants in their analysis/risk decision making, across various global asset classes. -
Assured Trade is a London based credit insurance brokerage specialising in structuring non-payment and credit risk solutions for private credit funds, alternative lenders, and trade finance participants.The firm works with fund managers and institutional lenders to structure bespoke insurance coverage around non-standard transactions including asset based lending, receivables finance, and direct lending portfolios.Drawing on deep underwriting experience across the global credit and political risk market, Assured Trade gives lenders direct access to specialist capacity at Lloyd's and through select international insurers.Assured Trade is FCA-authorised and independently owned. -
Cascade eliminates manual validation and self-reported reporting by independently verifying asset-level data as a calculation and verification agent. With real-time data integrations, dashboards, and analytics, Cascade replaces spreadsheets with a single source of truth, giving investors, lenders, and operators continuous visibility into portfolio performance. Move faster, manage risk proactively, and scale capital without adding operational complexity. -
Hebbia is the leading AI platform for finance. Founded in 2020 by George Sivulka, Hebbia is a generative AI company backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Peter Thiel, and Index Ventures. Investment banks and over 40% of the largest asset managers by AUM use Hebbia at every stage of the investment and deal-making process. Users can instantly surface insights over filings, research, and millions of internal documents, enabling citation-backed research, AI-driven document, powerpoint, and spreadsheet generation, and AI driven origination, screening, and diligence. Learn more at hebbia.com. -
For more than 115 years, Moody’s Ratings has been a leading provider of credit ratings, research, and risk analysis helping businesses, governments, and other entities around the globe to anticipate, adapt and thrive in this era of exponential risk. www.moodys.com/web/en/us/solutions/ratings.html -
Mourant is an international professional services firm. We advise on the laws of the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Guernsey, Jersey and Luxembourg and provide specialist entity management, governance, regulatory and consulting services. We bridge the gap between legal advice and its implementation, taking an integrated approach to deliver the best results for our clients. Our clients include many of the world's leading financial institutions, international corporations, asset managers and institutional investors.
Lead Association Partner
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The European Leveraged Finance Association (ELFA) is a buyside-only trade association comprised of European credit investors from over 60 institutional fixed income managers, including investment advisers, insurance companies, and pension funds. Our aim to create a stronger, more resilient leveraged finance market in Europe is supported through the initiatives, events, and resources developed by our members and our partners working together.Our engagement within the market has expanded significantly with now eight Initiative Committees representing investors in the high yield bond, leveraged loan, private debt and CLO asset classes. We also have a Diversity & Inclusion Committee, ESG Committee, Engagement Committee and a new AI Committee.
Lead Media Partner
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MandateWire, a service from the Financial Times, helps institutional asset managers and consultants win business, raise capital and build connections. Our regional editorial teams leverage their close relationships with thousands of institutional investors globally, to provide early and actionable intelligence on their investment plans.
Media Partners
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9fin is the faster, smarter way to find debt market intelligence. Through an AI-powered data and analytics platform, 9fin centralises everything needed to analyse a credit or win a mandate in one place - helping subscribers win business, outperform their peers and save time.https://www.9fin.com -
AIMA is the world’s largest membership association for alternative investment managers. Its membership has more firms, managing more assets than any other industry body, and through our 10 offices located around the world, we serve over 2,000 members in 60 different countries.AIMA’s mission, which includes that of its private credit affiliate, the Alternative Credit Council (ACC), is to ensure that our industry of hedge funds, private market funds and digital asset funds is always best positioned for success. Success in our industry is defined by its contribution to capital formation, economic growth, and positive outcomes for investors while being able to operate efficiently within appropriate and proportionate regulatory frameworks.AIMA’s many peer groups, events, educational sessions, publications and practical tools like its Due Diligence Questionnaires and industry sound practice guidance available exclusively to members, enable firms to actively refine their business practices, policies, and processes to secure their place in that success. -
Alternative Credit Investor is the world’s leading resource on alternative credit. This online and print publication offers high-quality news, analysis, opinion, and features relating to alternative credit. Investors make up one of the largest segments of our audience, alongside industry professionals. Other readers come from the wider credit and fintech space, professional services, regulators, and government.We pride ourselves on up-to-the-minute coverage of the key topics impacting the alternative credit sector and its investors. The print version of the magazine comes out at the start of each month, complete with exclusive content. Alternativecreditinvestor.com offers daily news and analysis from Monday to Friday, alongside a daily and weekly e-newsletter. The magazine shines a spotlight on the most important industry issues, lets you know who’s changing jobs and seeks out the opinions of the people who matter most.To stay connected and be informed please subscribe today! Click here for subscription options. Visit www.alternativecreditinvestor.com -
CreditSights is the number 1 source for leveraged finance intel - providing breaking news, data, and analysis for global leveraged finance investors.CreditSights combines in-depth research, covenant analysis, breaking news, and data into one site to help you Know More. Risk Better.https://know.creditsights.com -
Financial Services Review is a leading technology magazine that reaches out to over 56,000 print subscribers and over 85,000 digital subscribers. It provides a comprehensive platform for senior-level industry experts, buyers, and decision-makers to share their insights following a unique learn-by-peers approach. -
The IMDDA is the leading and most affordable due diligence training platform and community for financial professionals in the world. Our mission is to empower our members to improve their knowledge and skills to accelerate their growth and development to advance in their careers. We do this by providing exceptional training, a vibrant community, and essential tools that make our members and their organizations more successful. -
PensionMandate is a business intelligence database that provides real-time information on institutional investor activity for asset management firms. PensionMandate's database includes information on investors, consultants, mandates, and key contacts. It also covers a wide range of asset classes, investor geographies, and investment destinations. PensionMandate offers advanced search options that allow users to select filters such as asset class, investor domicile, investment region, and mandate status. -
PitchBook is a financial data and software company that provides transparency intothe capital markets to help professionals discover and execute opportunities withconfidence and efficiency. We collect and analyse detailed data on the entire venturecapital, private equity, M&A, emerging technology, leveraged finance and creditlandscape—including public and private companies, investors, funds, investments,exits and people. Our data and analysis are available through our suite of products(the PitchBook Platform), industry news and in-depth reports.