PDI Europe Summit 2026

PDI Europe Summit is the leading European gathering of private debt LPs and GPs, organized by Private Debt Investor (PEI Group) — the trade publication that has tracked the asset class since its institutional emergence. Held in London, the conference concentrates the European private credit market: GP fundraising activity, LP allocator decisions, secondary market dynamics and the continuing structural shift of credit risk from bank balance sheets to non-bank lenders.

The agenda spans the full European private credit strategy spectrum. Direct lending sessions concentrate on the upper-middle-market unitranche segment that absorbs most institutional capital, plus the emerging large-cap direct-lending product class that competes directly with leveraged loans. Mezzanine and junior capital programming covers the renewed allocator interest in subordinated structures. Asset-based lending and specialty finance sessions cover the increasingly important real-estate and corporate ABL segments. Secondary market programming addresses the rapid maturation of credit secondaries as a recognized substrategy.

European private credit has its own distinctive features — multiple legal regimes across markets, a more bank-dominated baseline than in the US, currency hedging considerations for non-Eurozone funds, and the regulatory specifics of the AIFMD-and-ELTIF environment. The conference treats these as first-class topics rather than US-comparison footnotes.

For European credit LPs, the summit is the most efficient annual venue for benchmarking the GP set. For non-European LPs, it is the gateway event for the European credit opportunity. For GPs, it is the major fundraising touchpoint of the European year.

European institutional credit allocators (pension, insurance, fund-of-funds, family office); UK and Continental GPs across direct lending, mezzanine, ABL and special situations; US and Asian GPs with European platforms; the banking and legal advisory ecosystem.

European banks continue to retreat from middle-market and acquisition lending under regulatory pressure, structurally expanding the addressable market for non-bank credit providers. The summit is the most concentrated venue for tracking how that capital reallocation is unfolding across European geographies.