Ares Management Corporation reports developments across its global alternative investment management platform, including credit, real estate, private equity and infrastructure strategies. Company news commonly covers quarterly results, fee and performance income, fundraising, fund closings, direct lending origination activity and dividend declarations on its common stock.
Updates also track Ares Credit funds, Ares Commercial Finance, value-add real estate vehicles, Asia credit and special situations strategies, and sub-advised credit products. Recurring themes include capital deployment, senior secured financing commitments, fundraising across asset classes, global platform expansion and operating leadership changes.
MGT (ARES) said it closed a $350 million strategic investment from Ares Credit funds on Dec 3, 2025, valuing the company at $1.25 billion, creating what the company calls the first unicorn in the SLED services industry. The transaction brings Ares Management (reported $595 billion AUM as of Sept 30, 2025) alongside existing backers Vistria, J.P. Morgan, and WhiteHorse Capital.
MGT said it has tripled enterprise value since Vistria's April 2023 majority investment, operates with 1,100+ employee-owners, serves over 2,500 clients, and is midway through a four-year value-creation plan focused on M&A and business transformation.
Ansley Park Capital (ARES) closed its inaugural asset-backed securitization on November 26, 2025, issuing more than $400 million of rated securities in the large-ticket equipment finance market. The transaction is described as the U.S. market’s largest first-time issuance in this sector and was oversubscribed across all tranches. Moody’s provided ratings across the full capital stack — the first time a major rating agency rated an entire inaugural structure in this sector. Deutsche Bank Securities served as sole structuring agent and joint bookrunner, Truist Securities as joint bookrunner, and an affiliate of Ares Management acted as co-manager.
The offering highlights Ansley Park’s stated capacity to scale, structure customized financing, and maintain underwriting standards.
Aledade secured a $500 million senior secured credit facility from Ares Commercial Finance on December 1, 2025, led by Ares credit funds, with flexibility to expand to $650 million. The facility doubles Aledade’s committed financing capacity and is intended to provide working capital flexibility to bridge Medicare payment timing gaps and accelerate shared savings distributions to clinician partners.
Key metrics: Aledade supports >20,000 clinicians in 2,400 practices across 46 states, serves nearly 3 million Medicare patients, its 2024 MSSP ACOs generated $1 billion in savings, 93% of its physician-led ACOs achieved shared savings in 2024 (vs under 70% for non-Aledade participants), and since 2014 it has driven $3 billion in savings.
Ares Management (NYSE: ARES) launched Marq Logistics, a unified global logistics real estate brand combining Ares Industrial Management and the acquired international GLP logistics platform outside China.
Marq will manage more than 600 million square feet of facilities across the Americas, Europe and APAC and leverages Ares Real Estate's approximately $110 billion in assets under management as of September 30, 2025. The GLP international acquisition closed in March 2025, creating an integrated platform positioned to provide global scale and local operations for logistics tenants.
Ares Management (NYSE:ARES) said its Co-Founder and CEO Michael Arougheti will present at the Goldman Sachs Financial Services Conference on Wednesday, December 10, 2025 at 8:40 AM ET.
A live audio webcast will be available in the Investor Resources section of the company website at www.aresmgmt.com, and a replay will be posted on the website shortly after the event.
Ares Management (NYSE: ARES) announced that Co‑President Kipp deVeer will present at the Citizens Financial Services Conference on Tuesday, November 18, 2025 at 12:00 pm ET.
A live audio webcast will be available in the Investor Resources section of the company website at www.aresmgmt.com, and a replay will be posted on the website shortly after the event.
Ares Management (NYSE: ARES) completed the acquisition of a 20% stake in Plenitude for €2 billion, at an implied enterprise value of over €12 billion. The investment was made by Ares Alternative Credit funds and other affiliated Ares funds.
Plenitude operates in over 15 countries, owns 4.8 GW of renewable generation today, serves 10 million customers, and manages a network of >b>22,000 public EV charging points. Plenitude targets 10 GW of renewable capacity by 2028. Ares Alternative Credit manages approximately $46.7 billion AUM as of September 30, 2025, and Ares has deployed >b>€4 billion in Italian assets over two decades, with a Milan office opened in May 2025.
Tyree & D’Angelo Partners (ARES) announced on November 3, 2025 that it closed a single-asset secondary continuation fund to extend its partnership with Western Veterinary Partners.
The continuation fund was anchored by HarbourVest Partners as sole lead investor, with additional commitments from Ares Private Equity Secondaries funds, syndicate investors, and TDP’s existing limited and general partners. The fund raised new capital to support Western’s continued organic growth and planned acquisitions while keeping TDP as manager.
William Blair served as exclusive financial advisor; Kirkland & Ellis advised TDP; Winston & Strawn advised Western; Ropes & Gray advised HarbourVest.
Ares Management (NYSE:ARES) reported approximately $15.2 billion of U.S. direct lending commitments closed across 88 transactions in 3Q2025 and approximately $49.3 billion across 329 transactions in the 12 months ended September 30, 2025.
Selected 3Q2025 deals included senior secured facilities supporting acquisitions or growth for AeriTek Global, Dun & Bradstreet, Invited (f/k/a ClubCorp), Leaf Home, Liquid Environmental Solutions, Merit Financial Advisors, Stout, and The Triumph Group. Merit Financial Advisors was noted as an advisory platform with $20+ billion AUM.
Ares Management (NYSE:ARES) reported third quarter 2025 results for the period ended September 30, 2025. GAAP net income attributable to Ares was $288.9 million and EPS was $1.15 (basic and diluted). After-tax realized income was $425.8 million ($1.19 per share) and fee related earnings were $471.2 million. Management reported a 28% year-over-year increase in AUM, FPAUM and management fees in Q3 and said it now expects to meaningfully exceed its prior annual fundraising record of $93 billion. Available capital was reported at $150 billion at quarter end. Ares declared a quarterly common dividend of $1.12 per Class A share payable Dec 31, 2025 (record Dec 17, 2025) and a preferred dividend of $0.84375 per Series B share payable Jan 1, 2026 (record Dec 15, 2025). A dividend reinvestment program will be effective for the Dec 31 dividend. A conference call and webcast were scheduled for Nov 3, 2025.