The rankings of the most active lenders in PE for Q3 2025 are now available. You can click on firm names to take a deeper dive into a firm’s public PitchBook profile and explore their top-line stats. (As only public PitchBook profiles are available, we recommend clients log in to their account after identifying the firms they wish to review in order to view firms’ full activity.)
Last but not least, as a reminder, recently we broadened the scope of these rankings, including transactions with European companies, as well as changing the methodology to include additional agent types. (The table that outlines select roles in transactions includes the following roles: bookrunners, lead arrangers, mandated lead arrangers and agents only; documentation and syndication agents are still being explored for future inclusion.)
Please note that we will maintain these rankings as evergreen so as to preserve a historical record of this quarter’s activity—we will note if an update should have to occur due to any error on this page as well.
The below represents only lender involvement on PE deals that have confirmed transaction sizes - not the entirety of PE activity in Q3 2025.
The below also is based only on deals where the total debt sum in a given transaction was also confirmed. For example, if a firm is listed as having participated in five PE deals where the total lending amount was $500M or above, then their tally in the $500M or above size bucket for total debt amount on the transaction would be five.
Please reach out to [email protected] if you have any inquiries as to how to submit your relevant transactions for consideration, or if you have any other specific questions pertaining to the tables.
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