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The global private credit industry expanded to approximately $1.8 trillion in 2024, directly competing with the $1.4 trillion leveraged loan and $1.3 trillion high-yield bond markets.
Michael Jensen's 1989 argument posited that public corporations would give way to leveraged, privately held organizations, though the 1980s buyout wave experienced defaults from overleverage.
Global private credit assets under management grew from approximately $2 trillion in 2020 to an estimated $3.5 trillion in 2025.
India PE-VC investments declined approximately 17% year over year to about $36 billion in 2025, while VC investments grew roughly 18% to $16 billion.
Global private credit assets under management reached approximately US$3.5tn at the end of 2024, marking a 17% increase from US$3.0tn at year-end 2023.
Global buyout deal value, including add-ons, grew 19% to $440 billion in 2017, while deal count grew 2% to 3,077 deals.
