Inside the Middle Market Crisis: A Marblegate & RapidRatings Update

Marblegate, in partnership with RapidRatings, recently updated its analysis of the performance of U.S. middle market companies relative to their larger public peers.

Our latest update highlights a critical inflection point for private middle-market companies. Drawing on 2024 data from RapidRatings, this white paper reveals accelerating bankruptcies, unprecedented leverage growth, and deepening profitability pressures exacerbated by tariffs and rising input cost factors that are increasingly threatening solvency. While traditional lenders struggle with a growing wave of distressed credits, the resulting market dislocation is creating one of the most compelling opportunities in the credit markets since the Great Financial Crisis.

Sign up to explore our full analysis: understand where hands-on restructuring and creative capital can unlock long-term value as a prolonged cycle of stress and distress in the middle market unfolds.