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Ares Management
1,001-5,000 employees
Alternative investment manager across asset classes
No salary listed
London, UK
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Bachelor's
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- A law degree or other appropriate qualification is required.
- A Legal Practice Certificate (LPC) or Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE) is required.
- The candidate must have 1–3 years of post-qualification experience with a City law firm and/or an in-house financial services legal team.
- The candidate must be skilled with Adobe Acrobat Pro, Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft Excel.
- The candidate must be comfortable using legal artificial intelligence technology and willing to learn and use new legal artificial intelligence tools.
- The candidate must be able to multitask and prioritize effectively to manage competing deadlines and demands.
- The candidate must be able to interact effectively with groups across the entire platform.
- The candidate must have a keen eye for detail.
- The candidate must be an articulate and concise verbal and written communicator with good negotiation skills.
- The candidate must be highly organized and responsive.
- The candidate must be able to identify issues, work through complexity, and balance legal and commercial considerations.
- The candidate must have a proactive mindset and appetite for process improvement and driving efficiencies.
- Negotiate new minority equity investments alongside the Investment team.
- Assist the restructuring team with corporate law issues on debt-to-equity swaps and take-controls.
- Handle UK peer-to-peer cash confirmations.
- Prepare Financial Conduct Authority change-of-control filings.
- Handle cross-trades, fund rebalancing transfers, and advisory board fund disclosures.
- Prepare engagement letters for tax, due diligence, financial advisers, and law firms.
- Handle commercial contracts.
- Respond to ad hoc queries from the Investment, Operations, and Finance teams.
- Partner with Legal Operations to train, test, and refine artificial intelligence models and legal-technology tools.
- Contribute to the development and maintenance of internal artificial intelligence playbooks, clause libraries, and prompt templates.
- Support the design and enforcement of artificial intelligence governance frameworks for the legal function.
- Monitor emerging United Kingdom and European Union artificial intelligence-related regulatory developments and advise on their implications for the team's use of technology.
- Manage the external nondisclosure agreement review team and complete final-level reviews of nondisclosure agreements, release letters, and reliance letters.
- Co-manage a paralegal working on nondisclosure agreement and release-letter reviews, know-your-customer activities, powers of attorney, incumbency certificates, billing, and routine corporate-governance items.
- Perform other tasks requested by and in support of the European Direct Lending Legal team.
Ares Management pools capital from institutions, corporations, and high-net-worth individuals into funds across credit, private equity, real estate, and infrastructure to help clients grow their wealth. It operates by assembling diversified investment vehicles, deploying capital to buy assets or lend money, and earning money from management fees, performance fees, and investment income. What sets it apart is its collaborative, multi-asset approach and flexible capital across markets and cycles, backed by a large, diverse client base. Its goal is to deliver steady, attractive returns for clients while supporting businesses and communities through different market cycles.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Chicago, Illinois
Founded
1997
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Q2 2026 revenue reached $1.43 billion, and fee-related earnings rose 20% to $491 million.
- Ares now holds $170 billion dry powder, supporting deployments across credit, infrastructure, and real estate.
- Talks to buy Leonard Green in July 2026 would expand secondaries and private-equity reach.
What critics are saying
- Q2 2026 operating margin fell to 19.4% as technology and distribution spending climbed.
- Ares seized Toob in August 2026 after £160 million lending, exposing workout losses.
- Private-credit losses during a 2027 recession would crush fee growth and trigger redemption pressure.
What makes Ares Management unique
- Ares ran $671 billion AUM, spanning credit, real assets, secondaries, and wealth channels.
- Its Q2 2026 fundraising hit $36 billion, with 70% outside core credit families.
- Ares financed 69 direct lending deals in Q2 2026, showing unmatched private-credit origination.
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Company News
Atlanta-based systems integrator Fortna will be acquired by Los Angeles investment firm Ares Management in a deal that reduces the company's debt by $1.8 billion and raises $150 million in cash. The transaction will transfer majority ownership to existing lenders. Fortna was previously purchased by private equity firm Thomas H. Lee Partners in 2019 and merged with fellow systems integrator MHS Global in 2022. The recapitalization is expected to close in the coming weeks. CEO Rob McKeel said the deal provides a stronger balance sheet and enhanced financial flexibility. The transaction will not impact vendors, suppliers, or business partners. Fortna will continue normal operations during the transition, focusing on delivering distribution and fulfilment solutions to customers.
Ares takes control of UK fibre operator Toob. * August 18, 2026 * - 8:46 am Ares Management has taken control of UK broadband provider Toob after the company's existing shareholders agreed to transfer their stakes to the private credit firm, which is also its senior lender, according to a report by Bloomberg. The report cites unnamed people familiar with the matter as revealing that Ares is injecting an undisclosed amount of new equity into Toob as part of the restructuring. The transaction comes as the alternative fibre sector faces mounting pressure from higher borrowing costs, slowing growth and the need to achieve profitability. Toob's largest shareholder was the National Digital Infrastructure Fund, managed by Amber Infrastructure for investors including the UK's National Wealth Fund and listed infrastructure investor International Public Partnerships (INPP). INPP said in a regulatory filing that it will transfer its £24.1m ($32.7m) equity stake to Toob's creditors for a nominal amount after deciding against providing additional capital. Ares originally provided Toob with around £160m of debt financing in 2023. The latest transaction effectively hands ownership to the lender while providing the struggling fibre operator with additional equity capital. Toob is among a group of so-called alternative network operators that have spent heavily building fibre infrastructure to compete with BT Group's Openreach. Many have struggled to generate profits after rapid expansion funded by substantial external investment. The National Wealth Fund has faced similar challenges elsewhere in the UK broadband market. Earlier this year, it and other lenders took control of rival operator Gigaclear after accepting losses on almost £1bn of debt.
Financial services firm Ares Management and commercial asset marketplace operator RB Global have been highlighted for their strong fundamentals and profitability, whilst cloud storage provider Dropbox faces challenges. Ares Management has demonstrated exceptional revenue growth of 24.3% annually over the past two years, with earnings per share compounding at 19.5% annually over five years. The company maintains an operating margin of 21.8%. RB Global, formerly Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers, has achieved 27.4% annual revenue growth over five years, with EPS growing at 19.3% annually. The company generates a free cash flow margin of 14%. Dropbox, despite a 26.6% operating margin, showed flat billings and faces weak demand outlook. Wall Street expects flat revenue over the next 12 months.
Ares drops $84M on suburban Chicago industrial portfolio. Seller High Street Logistics assembled the portfolio for $62M Los Angeles-based mega-investor Ares Management is continuing its buying spree in Chicago's suburban industrial market. In a deal that closed last week, Ares bought ten light industrial properties from Massachusetts-based High Street Logistics for $84 million, or about $117 per square foot, property records show. High Street spent $62 million assembling the 717,000-square-foot portfolio between 2020 and 2022, according to public records. The properties span Will, DuPage and Kane counties and benefit from access to I-80, I-55, I-88 and I-90. They are currently 84 percent leased to 19 tenants, according to a press release from JLL. Their average age is 25 years and their square footage ranges from 23,600 square feet to 237,000 square feet, according to JLL. Kurt Sarbaugh and Ed Halaburt and their team including Trent Agnew, Sean Devaney, Ross Bratcher and Cameron Chandra brokered the deal on behalf of High Street. The deal comes as Ares continues to expand its Chicago area industrial portfolio. In June, the firm bought a 263,000-square-foot logistics center in Aurora for $58 million and in December bought a 356,000-square-foot warehouse, also in Aurora. The transactions came out to about $220 and $129 per square foot, respectively. Both properties were new developments that became available after speculative development took off during the pandemic. Speculative industrial development in the suburbs peaked in the third quarter of 2023 when nearly 12 million square feet of space entered the market. That figure fell to 1.4 million in the first quarter of this year, according to a report from JLL. Chicago has long been a manufacturing hub but the pandemic boosted demand from industrial tenants and investors alike. That momentum continued through 2026. Total leasing activity was up 15 percent year over year in the second quarter, a new report from Transwestern Found. JLL's presence in the industrial market is growing as well. The brokerage added a new 5-person brokerage team in June, led by former Avison Young brokers, Adam Haefner, Marty Mikaitis, Zeke Rowan, Nick Fazio and Anne McGrath.
Ares Management met Wall Street's revenue expectations in Q2 2026, with sales rising 25.6% year on year to $1.28 billion. The alternative asset manager's non-GAAP profit of $1.29 per share slightly exceeded analyst estimates by 1.4%. The firm achieved record quarterly fundraising of $36 billion across 90 funds and vehicles. Notably, 70% of capital raised came from outside its four largest credit fund families, signalling increasing diversification. However, operating margin declined to 19.4% from 25.9% in the same quarter last year. The compression resulted from elevated general and administrative expenses, including investments in technology, distribution, and front-office capacity. CEO Michael Arougheti highlighted strong institutional demand, with institutions now representing approximately 75% of assets under management. The wealth channel grew over 25% annualized, with expansion into interval fund structures for mass affluent investors. Management expressed confidence in continued growth through its diversified platform, citing robust pipelines in direct lending, infrastructure, and digital assets.