Your private debt marketplace
Where 1500+ investors, issuers, asset managers, and agents connect, source and deploy capital. A year's worth of meetings in just 3 days.
Celebrating 40 years as the world's leading gathering for private placements and investment grade credit.
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Hundreds of investors already signed up.
Confirmed attendees include State Farm, Northwestern Mutual, PIMCO, La Caisse (CDPQ), T. Rowe Price, Blue Owl Capital, State of Wisconsin Investment Board, Manulife John Hancock, APG Asset Management, and Voya Investment Management.
The #1 private debt market event. More issuers. More investors. More deals.
Private Placements Industry Forum has long been the industry's leading private placement event. As the market has expanded into direct lending, private credit, and structured credit, our community has evolved with it. Today, we bring together the complete private debt market ecosystem.
As competition intensifies and capital flows shift, join the decision-makers shaping where the market, and your next opportunity, goes from here.
Meet the leading investors in private debt
Connect with 600+ investors from across the US and beyond, including:
- Insurance Companies: Allianz, American Family Insurance, Assured Guaranty, Aviva, Canada Life, Federated Insurance Companies, iA Insurance, Legal & General, Manulife, MEAG, MetLife, Mutual of Omaha, Nationwide Insurance, Nuveen, New York Life, Pacific Life, Reinsurance Group of America, Swiss Re and more.
- Pension Funds: Pension Insurance Corporation, La Caisse and more.
- A wider scope of investors: sovereign wealth funds, foundations and endowments, private wealth firms such as single- and multi-family offices.
The event is endorsed by the Private Placements Investors Association.
Join issuers spanning key infrastructure areas
Championing issuance in the private debt sphere for decades. Connect with 250+ issuers, from industries including:
- Data Centers: Aligned Data Centers, Vantage Data Centers, QTS Data Centers and more.
- Energy: AES Clean Energy, Alinta Energy, CenterPoint Energy, Copia Power, East Kentucky Power Cooperative, Southern Company, Mississippi Power Company, Nicor Gas, Onward Energy and more.
- Transportation: Beacon Rail, Eversholt Rail, Heathrow Airport, Perth Airport, Impala Terminals, Terminal Investment Limited, Cando Rail and Terminals and more.
- Utilities: Affinity Water, Anglian Water Group, Northumbrian Water Group, Severn Trent, Southern Water, Summit Utilities and more.
Connect with the firms powering private debt deals
Meet the agents, GPs and solution providers bringing capital, expertise and execution to the private debt market, including:
- Agents and banks: Bank of America, BNP Paribas, CIBC Capital Markets, J.P. Morgan, MUFG, NatWest, Scotiabank and more.
- GPs and asset managers: AllianceBernstein, Barings, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs Asset Management, HPS Investment Partners, Sixth Street, Wellington Management and more.
- Solution providers and advisors: Legal, credit ratings, technology and market intelligence specialists, including Chapman and Cutler, Mayer Brown, KBRA, S&P Global Ratings, Moody’s Ratings, Finsight and more.
Every opportunity to connect, learn and grow.
The industry's highest-value networking
Private Placements Industry Forum is the leading platform for high-impact networking, strategic deal-making, and hearing directly from the market's most influential voices.
Don't miss out on the onsite buzz. From an invite-only 40th anniversary welcome reception at Rao's to speaker-hosted roundtables on the Americana lawn, there's a moment for every connection to happen.
Join issuers and investors at the annual Private Placement Boot Camp, brought to you by Greenberg Traurig, or unwind at the Women in Private Placements drinks reception and evening cocktail reception under the Miami sun.
New this year: the ConnectMe app opens nine weeks early, giving you a head start to log in, send messages, and pre-arrange meetings before you even arrive.
Hear from the leaders shaping private debt
Get perspectives from the people allocating capital, raising finance and executing deals across private placements, direct lending and structured credit.
Leading investors, issuers, agents, GPs, legal advisors and ratings experts share how they assess risk, identify value and respond to changing market conditions—giving you a broader view to inform your next move.
Hear both sides of the deal as capital providers and borrowers discuss their priorities, alongside the agents and specialists helping bring transactions to a close.
2027 speakers include senior leaders from MetLife, New York Life Investors, Canada Life, QTS Data Centers, Heathrow, NatWest, BNP Paribas, MUFG, Brookfield, Crescent Capital, Chapman and Cutler, S&P Global Ratings and more.
The market matures, the stakes rise higher
As investors sharpen their search for relative value, structured credit is expanding fast and direct lending is entering a new competitive phase. Are rates on the rise? How are fiscal shifts reshaping capital flows? What's fueling the convergence of private placements, private credit, and infrastructure debt? Which players are redefining distribution, and where is institutional capital headed next?
Find the answers this February, when key topics will include the boom in digital infrastructure, fluctuations in the private credit market, asset-backed finance, an interactive NAIC update, and the investors' perspective.
New for 2027: specialist summits, Direct Lending Summit and Structured Credit Summit, go beyond the main stage into the deals shaping the asset class.
Specialist summits. Specialist insights.
New for 2027: Go beyond the main stage with specialist summits dedicated to the most important opportunities transforming debt capital markets today.
Direct Lending Summit
Join institutional investors, GPs, and agents at the forefront of direct lending to navigate private credit's evolution into a core asset class. Explore deal flow dynamics, fund finance structures, and portfolio strategies while gaining actionable frameworks from industry leaders addressing regulatory shifts, technical underwriting, and growth opportunities in 2027's competitive landscape.
Structured Credit Summit
Unlock opportunities across the evolving credit landscape. As structured credit markets expand, investors are seeking value across ABS, CLOs, SRTs, and emerging financing structures. Join leading investors, issuers, asset managers and agents to examine issuance trends, credit fundamentals, and the opportunities shaping the next generation of structured finance.
Join the investor community
Exclusive access for qualified institutional investors to high-impact deal-making at the Private Placements Industry Forum.
Connect with senior decision-makers, discover new opportunities, and gain market insights on key sectors like infrastructure and private credit. Free passes available for eligible investors.
Contact Claire to apply and secure your spot today.
The entire private placements landscape
Connect face-to-face to build trust, deepen connections, and create meaningful interactions with your colleagues, clients and peers.
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Why is Private Placements Industry Forum the #1 event in the industry?
Forge relationships that move deals forward at the biggest private placements event.
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