Industry recognition honors S&P Global Ratings' role in enhancing credit insights across European private markets

S&P Global Ratings was named Ratings Provider of the Year at the 2026 Private Equity Wire European Awards ceremony, held on Thursday, 12 February at County Hall, London. The award recognises S&P Global Ratings' role in enhancing transparency and enabling decision-making across European private markets.

The Private Equity Wire European Awards recognize excellence and innovation across the European private equity industry. Winners are determined by votes from industry participants, including fund managers, institutional investors, and service providers across the region.

"As private equity and private credit markets continue to evolve with increasing complexity and participation from a broader range of investors, consistent and reliable credit analysis has never been more critical," said Lynn Maxwell, Chief Commercial Officer at S&P Global Ratings. "Whether it's a credit rating, a fund or NAV rating or esoteric asset-based lending, our credit analysts deliver high-quality, independent credit opinions that enable market participants to make decisions with conviction."

For more information about S&P Global Ratings' private markets solutions and thought leadership, visit: www.spglobal.com/ratings/en/research/private-markets

About S&P Global Ratings

At S&P Global Ratings, our analyst-driven credit ratings, research, and sustainable finance opinions provide critical insights that are essential to translating complexity into clarity so market participants can uncover opportunities and make decisions with conviction. By bringing transparency to the market through high-quality independent opinions on creditworthiness, we enable growth across a wide variety of organizations, including businesses, governments, and institutions.

S&P Global Ratings is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI). S&P Global is the world's foremost provider of credit ratings, benchmarks, analytics and workflow solutions in the global capital, commodity and automotive markets. With every one of our offerings, we help many of the world's leading organizations navigate the economic landscape so they can plan for tomorrow, today. For more information, visit www.spglobal.com/ratings

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Arnaud HumblotS&P Global Ratingsarnaud.humblot@spglobal.com media_europe@spglobal.com

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