Private Placements Industry Forum Europe: Conference Recap

This year’s Private Placements Industry Forum Europe was held in Amsterdam from 14 to 16 September. A key theme was the expansion of the traditional private placement market into a broader private capital ecosystem—with growing overlap between investment-grade (IG) private debt, asset-based finance (ABF), and private credit—while infrastructure remains a cornerstone of the market and a major area of investment need against an increasingly uncertain geopolitical and energy-security backdrop. Below is KBRA’s recap of selected panels from the conference.

The Issuer Perspective: First-Timers, Repeat Borrowers, and the Wider Corporate Conversation

Panellists highlighted competitive pricing, long-dated funding, diversification, and structural flexibility as key attractions of the private placement market, particularly for infrastructure and capital-intensive businesses. Transactions can accommodate different maturities, currencies, repayment profiles, and fixed or floating rate debt, while…