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DealPotential September 4, 2025

Private credit & NAV lending: The unsung liquidity engines of Private Markets in 2025

Private credit & NAV lending: The unsung liquidity engines of Private Markets in 2025

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Private Credit & NAV Lending: The Unsung Liquidity Engines of Private Markets in 2025

Beyond Secondaries: The Liquidity Frontier While much attention in private markets has shifted to secondaries, an equally powerful liquidity engine is rising:
private credit and NAV lending.
These tools offer firms a way to unlock capital without selling assets or sacrificing strategy.
In 2025, they’re becoming core to how GPs maintain momentum, and how LPs assess stability.

Private Credit: Direct, Dynamic, and Everywhere

Private credit has evolved into a central pillar of capital deployment in private markets.
With over $3 trillion in AUM, it is no longer an alternative it’s a mainstream option. Amid tighter banking regulations and macro uncertainty, direct lenders are stepping into roles once held by investment banks:
acquisition financing, recapitalizations, even growth rounds.

We’re seeing a new cohort of participants, too. Family offices, niche credit funds, and even hybrid VC-credit structures are entering the space.
For GPs, this means more flexible terms, faster closes, and access to deal types that previously required syndication or mezzanine stacks.

NAV Lending: Unlocking Liquidity Without Exits

Liquidity is becoming a due diligence item in its own right.
LPs are looking closely at how managers plan to manage liquidity over the life of a fund not just at exit.
Firms that integrate private credit and NAV lending into their strategies signal greater control, foresight, and flexibility.

These tools also redefine capital deployment strategies.
GPs with access to credit lines or fund-level lending structures can act more decisively when sourcing deals, recapitalizing winners, or retaining optionality on exits. In competitive sectors, that speed and control translate directly to alpha.

DealPotential: Making Liquidity Intelligence Actionable

Our platform integrates signals from credit markets, secondary flows, and fund activity to detect emerging liquidity behaviors.
We track when firms are likely to pursue NAV financing, seek structured credit, or prepare portfolios for non-exit liquidity events.

Through contextual classification and behavioral mapping, DealPotential provides visibility not just into companies, but into the financial strategies shaping their future.
It’s not just about finding opportunities it’s about understanding capital movement before it becomes public.

Conclusion – Liquidity Without Compromise

Private credit and NAV lending aren’t replacements for secondaries.
They’re complements. Together, they create a liquidity framework that gives investors and managers more choices, fewer trade-offs, and greater strategic control.
In 2025, the firms who master all three dimensions credit, NAV, and secondaries will lead the next evolution in private market investing.

It’s not about exits. It’s about staying in control.

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