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Ares Management Corporation (NYSE: ARES) regularly features in financial and corporate news as a global alternative investment manager active across credit, real estate, private equity and infrastructure. Its press releases and related announcements highlight fundraising activity, new strategies, portfolio company developments and partnerships that reflect how Ares deploys capital and expands its platform.
Recent news includes the closing of a large capital raise for the Ares Credit Secondaries strategy, which the company describes as focused on constructing diversified portfolios of private credit exposures through secondary transactions. Other items showcase Ares Infrastructure Opportunities funds partnering with ENGIE North America on U.S. solar and wind assets, and Ares Real Assets funds completing data center transactions in Northern Virginia through the Ares Digital Infrastructure business and its Ada Infrastructure platform.
Additional coverage shows Ares-affiliated funds supporting portfolio companies and platforms in sectors such as tax services, industrial automation, veterinary services and equipment finance. Examples include Ares Private Equity Funds participating as long-term partners in Ryan, LLC and Automated Industrial Robotics Inc., and Ares Alternative Credit funds being affiliated with Ansley Park Capital, an equipment finance platform. These stories illustrate how Ares’ investment strategies translate into transactions and corporate milestones across different industries.
This news page aggregates such updates for ARES, including earnings announcements, capital markets activity, fund launches, partnerships and portfolio-level developments mentioned in company communications. Investors and observers can use this feed to follow how Ares Management Corporation describes the evolution of its alternative investment platform and the activities of its related funds and portfolio companies over time.
Ares (NYSE: ARES) raised approximately $5.4 billion in aggregate capital for U.S. and European value‑add real estate strategies, closing Ares US Real Estate Fund XI at a $3.1 billion hard cap and Ares European Property Enhancement Partners IV at $1.9 billion.
Inclusive of related vehicles and GP commitment, the U.S. strategy amassed ~$3.5 billion. Each fund has deployed or identified ~$1.1 billion of initial investments. Ares Real Estate manages ~$114 billion AUM as of Dec 31, 2025.
Ares Management Corporation (NYSE:ARES) will report first-quarter results for the period ending March 31, 2026 on Friday, May 1, 2026 before the NYSE opens. A webcast and conference call will be held the same day at 11:00 a.m. ET (conference ID ARESQ126).
Live and archived replays will be available via telephone and on the Investor Resources home page through June 1, 2026. Domestic and international dial-in numbers are provided for participants.
Town Lane and Gillon Property Group acquired Watters Creek Village, a 460k SF grocery-anchored mixed-use center in Allen, Texas, on April 1, 2026. An Ares Real Estate fund (ARES) provided debt financing to support the transaction.
The 46-acre site includes ~360k SF of retail anchored by Market Street and ~100k SF of boutique office space along U.S. Highway 75 (≈200k vehicles/day). The JV plans signage, tenant upgrades, marketing, and community programming, with SHOP Companies leading retail leasing and Thirty-Four Commercial handling office leasing.
Ares (NYSE: ARES) completed the final close of Ares Special Opportunities Fund III (ASOF III) and related vehicles, raising over $9.8 billion of capital, including $8.3 billion of equity commitments, exceeding its target and prior vintage fund size.
The Opportunistic Credit strategy will deploy private debt, equity and hybrid solutions to middle-market companies and may opportunistically purchase stressed public corporate credits. The team comprises 33 investment professionals and the broader Ares Credit platform reports $405 billion AUM as of December 31, 2025.
Convene Hospitality Group (NYSE:ARES) secured $230 million in strategic growth capital on March 24, 2026 to accelerate global expansion across its multi-brand hospitality platform. The financing includes credit from TPG and additional equity from existing shareholders including Ares funds. Funds will support development, technology, production and selective acquisitions, and CHG plans new New York openings in 2026.
Ares (NYSE: ARES) closed a single-asset continuation vehicle with approximately $850 million of commitments to hold Convergint Technologies, L.P., alongside Leonard Green & Partners’ Sage Fund and Vintage Strategies at Goldman Sachs. Ares will also make a substantial new investment and retain a shared control position with co-sponsors LGP and Harvest Partners.
Since Ares’ 2018 investment, Convergint has roughly quadrupled Adjusted EBITDA, delivered robust organic growth and completed over 40 acquisitions, supporting its global service-based systems integration platform.
Ares Management (NYSE:ARES) announced that CEO Michael Arougheti will present at the 2026 RBC Capital Markets Global Financial Institutions Conference on Wednesday, March 11, 2026 at 12:15pm ET. A live audio webcast will be available via the Investor Resources section of the company website, with a replay posted shortly after the event.
Ares Management (NYSE: ARES) priced its second European Direct Lending CLO, EDL CLO II, at over €300 million. The vehicle holds directly originated loans to 70+ Western European middle-market companies, is weighted to senior-secured floating-rate loans, and will be rated by S&P and KBRA.
Ares said EDL CLO II is among the first multi-currency middle-market CLOs in Europe. Ares’ European Direct Lending strategy has ~100 investment professionals, managed over $84 billion in assets as of December 31, 2025, and its CLO franchise has issued 108 CLOs since 1999.
Radial Power announced commissioning of two rooftop solar projects—Tuscany 6 (446.6 kWDC) and Tuscany 9 (855.8 kWDC)—hosted on Ares real estate (NYSE:ARES) in Austin. Together they supply ~1.97 GWh annually and qualify for the ITC plus the domestic content bonus under Austin Energy’s Solar Standard Offer program.
The installations are the first projects completed under Austin Energy’s SSO program and use underutilized rooftop space to support local decarbonization and energy resilience.
Ares (NYSE:ARES) reported record U.S. direct lending originations of approximately $19.4 billion closed in Q4 2025 across 119 transactions, and approximately $55.0 billion closed in the 12 months ended December 31, 2025 across 358 transactions.
Selected Q4 transactions included senior secured facilities supporting acquisitions, recapitalizations, and corporate growth for companies such as Bain Capital/Concert Golf Partners, Moderna, TPG/Pike Corporation, and others.