Powering connections. Advancing capital.
The Women in Private Debt Forum: North America brings together senior professionals shaping capital flows, underwriting, and portfolio construction across private credit.
Across two days in New York, you will hear how fund managers are navigating fundraising cycles, deployment challenges, documentation risk, and portfolio performance – while unpacking how private credit managers source deals, diversify by sector, and identify the strongest opportunities across North America.
Join lenders, borrowers, and institutional investors to explore how private debt is evolving as an all-weather solution in today’s market.
Meet the most active private lenders
Build relationships with senior women from direct lending, opportunistic credit, special situations, and private credit secondaries – all looking to deploy capital and form long-term partnerships.
Stay ahead of the credit cycle
Hear how leading managers are positioning portfolios for interest rate moves, refinancing risk, and defaults, while still finding attractive risk-adjusted returns across the capital structure.
Deepen LP–GP relationships
Join allocators and managers in curated sessions on portfolio construction, mandate design, reporting expectations, and what “good” looks like in today’s private debt relationships.
Turn documentation into a defensible edge
Explore covenant protections, intercreditor dynamics, restructuring playbooks, and workout case studies to understand how legal structuring supports resilient portfolio outcomes.
What can you expect in 2026?
- Sharper LP–GP networking. Join curated lounges, roundtables, and small-group discussions where allocators and managers can talk candidly about allocations, manager selection, and portfolio performance.
- A clear read on the credit markets. Hear how senior investors are responding to macro volatility, spreads, default risk, and refinancing pressures – and what it all means for underwriting today.
- Structuring and documentation in focus. Compare approaches to covenants, intercreditor agreements, and downside protection, with case studies on stressed and distressed situations.
- Fundraising and product innovation. Explore how managers are designing vehicles, using co-investment and SMAs, and communicating their edge to increasingly selective LPs.
- Leadership and career development. Learn from senior women in credit on building teams, managing risk functions, and progressing into portfolio leadership and investment committee roles.
A community of senior women shaping private markets
500+
private markets professionals
14%
Private debt specialists
100+
institutional investors across the Summit
70%+
senior decision-makers (Partner/MD/Principal)
4
forums under one Summit
Agenda
Women in Private Debt Forum: North America - Tuesday 2nd
The state of play in private debt: navigating momentum, competition, and structural shifts
- The rise of asset-backed finance as a core growth engine for private credit
- Capital rotation toward specialty strategies as investors seek diversification
- How managers are responding to tighter liquidity, higher scrutiny, and increasing complexity in borrower profiles
Inside the Asset-Backed Lending Boom
- Has the market reached scale or is more expansion ahead?
- How today’s ABL platforms stack up against direct lending
- Structural advantages and pitfalls versus other credit products
Financing the AI Build-Out: Debt Opportunities in Digital Infrastructure
- How the AI arms race is reshaping demand for capital across digital investments
- Lenders’ perspectives on underwriting AI-linked infrastructure: risk, pricing, and structure
- The rise of mega-deals and implications for competition and access
How investors are weighing risk & return in debt markets
- How allocators are assessing risk and discipline in a crowded market
- The trade-off between yield and covenant protection amid growing borrower pressure
- Which strategies (direct lending, opportunistic, structured credit) remain most attractive?
The Future of Middle-Market Lending: can direct lending maintain its edge?
- What’s happening to compression, competition and pricing in the midmarket?
- Banks vs. private credit: how is this relationship continuing to evolve?
- How scale platforms are defending margins and whether smaller lenders can still win deals
NAV Financing and GP Liquidity: the new core of private credit?
- How NAV loans, continuation vehicles and hybrid facilities are reshaping fund-level finance
- Examining demand drivers that are driving this trend
- Where returns, structures and risks sit relative to asset-backed and corporate lending
Complimentary passes for institutional investors
Eligible pension funds, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds, endowments and foundations can apply for a complimentary pass to join the Women in Private Debt Forum: North America. Benchmark your approach with peers, meet managers across strategies and gain practical insight into how private debt is evolving as an all-weather solution in today’s market.
Interested in partnering with us?
The Women in Private Debt Forum: North America offers tailored partnership opportunities for firms looking to raise visibility, demonstrate expertise and connect with senior women across private debt and credit. Position your brand alongside Private Debt Investor and the wider Women in Private Markets Summit to reach the investors and managers driving the next phase of the asset class.
Part of the Women in Private Markets Summit
Your pass gives you access to the full Women in Private Markets Summit — four specialist forums taking place under one roof. Join private market professionals alongside peers in private equity, infrastructure, and real estate to compare approaches, share intelligence and build relationships across the entire private markets ecosystem.
