Private Equity

Experienced Team.

Deployment Across Cycles.

Partnership Approach.

Our Private Equity Group seeks attractive risk-adjusted investment returns for a diversified and growing group of high-profile limited partners and has approximately $24.6 billion1 of assets under management via its Corporate Opportunities, APAC Private Equity and other strategies as of June 30, 2024.

The Private Equity Group primarily offers significant influence or control-oriented capital solutions to companies in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. Our investment professionals have demonstrated an ability to actively deploy capital in a disciplined manner in both benign and dislocated market environments.

Our teams focus on helping drive shared long-term success for our portfolio companies, limited partners and shareholders, while also emphasizing strong downside protection.

Our Global Reach


71 South Wacker Drive 
Suite 3500
Chicago,IL 60606
T. (312) 252-7500

18W140 Butterfield Road
Suite 900 
Oakbrook Terrace, IL  60181
T. (630) 365-7555

1000 Louisiana Street
Suite 625
Houston, TX 77002
T. (713) 527.2121

Los Angeles

1800 Avenue of the Stars

Suite 1400

Los Angeles, CA 90067

T. (310) 201-4100

245 Park Avenue
44th Floor
New York, NY 10167
T. (212) 710-2100


10 New Burlington Street
6th Floor
London, W1S 3BE
United Kingdom
T. +44 (0) 20-7434-6400

12 Cours Albert 1er. 
5th Floor
Paris 75008
France
T. +33 (0) 17039 4150


40/F, Gloucester Tower, The Landmark
15 Queens Road Central, Central
Hong Kong
T. +852 3909 8888

L. 39, Pacific Century Place
Jl. Jend. Sudirman
Kav, 52-53, Sudirman Central Business District
Jakarta 12190, Indonesia
T. +62 21 29859660

Unit 3702, Park Place Office Building
1601 West Nan Jing Road
Shanghai, 200040
China
T. +8621 6186 5200


378 Wukang Road
6/F Xu Hui District
Shanghai, 200031
China

Ares Private Equity

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Primary Role


Flexible capital solutions provided to growth-oriented businesses

Offices


Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago, London, Paris, Shanghai, Singapore, Hong Kong, Jakarta

Primary Areas of Focus


(i) For control or significant influence growth buyouts with ability to flex into distressed and (ii) growth capital and deep value

Types of Investments


Common equity, preferred equity, convertible securities

Corporate Opportunities
Corporate Opportunities

Our flagship corporate opportunities strategy seek to invest in high-quality middle market companies in our core industries - Healthcare, Services, Industrials and Consumer - across North America and Europe, where we can utilize our extensive growth-oriented investing experience, proprietary Value Creation System and our ability to flex into distressed investing in an effort to generate predictable alpha across market environments.


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APAC Private Equity

Our APAC Private Equity strategy is focused on investing in industry-leading consumer companies in seven core sectors while opportunistically investing in deep value across all sectors in the larger Southeast Asia markets and China.


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Contact

Ares Corporate Opportunities Leadership


To reach our leadership, please contact:

Matt Cwiertnia
Partner, Head of Private Equity

Ares Corporate Opportunities Investor Relations


For inquiries regarding investor relations, please contact:

Jeremy Bergman
Partner, Head of Product Management and Investor Relations for Opportunistic Credit and Private Equity

Tel: (212) 808-1115
Email:  [email protected]

General Email:  [email protected]

APAC Private Equity Leadership


To reach our APAC Private Equity leadership, please contact:

David Hand
Head of APAC Private Equity

APAC Private Equity Investor Relations


For inquiries regarding APAC Private Equity investor relations, please contact:

Jolyn Dang
Managing Director, Asia Investor Relations

Tel: (852) 3909-8860
Email:  [email protected]