Ares Capital Corporation is a business development company specializing in acquisition, recapitalization, mezzanine debt, restructurings, rescue financing, and leveraged buyout transactions of middle market companies. It also makes growth capital and general refinancing. It prefers to make investments in companies engaged in the basic and growth manufacturing, business services, consumer products, health care products and services, and information technology service sectors. The fund will also consider investments in industries such as restaurants, retail, oil and gas, and technology sectors. It focuses on investments in Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast and Southwest regions from its New York office, the Midwest region, from the Chicago office, and the Western region from the Los Angeles office. The fund typically invests between $20 million and $200 million and a maximum of $400 million in companies with an EBITDA between $10 million and $250 million. It makes debt investments between $10 million and $100 million The fund invests through revolvers, first lien loans, warrants, unitranche structures, second lien loans, mezzanine debt, private high yield, junior capital, subordinated debt, and non-control preferred and common equity. The fund also selectively considers third-party-led senior and subordinated debt financings and opportunistically considers the purchase of stressed and discounted debt positions. The fund prefers to be an agent and/or lead the transactions in which it invests. The fund also seeks board representation in its portfolio companies.

Asset Management

Mr. Mitchell S. Goldstein CPA

Co-President

Mr. Kort  Schnabel

Co-President, Partner & Co-Head of U.S. Direct Lending

Mr. Scott C. Lem

Chief Financial Officer & Treasurer

Ms. Jana  Markowicz

Chief Operating Officer

Mr. Won Jae Cho

Chief Accounting Officer

Mr. John W. Stilmar

Partner & Co-Head of Public Markets Investor Relations

Mr. Joshua M. Bloomstein J.D.

Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary

Mr. Michael J. Arougheti

Co-Chairman & Executive Vice President

Mr. Robert Kipp DeVeer III

Chief Executive Officer & Director

Mr. Bennett  Rosenthal

Co-Founder & Co-Chairman

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