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Sep. 30, 2025
Debt Disclosure [Abstract] |
DEBT | 7. DEBT The following table summarizes the Company’s and its subsidiaries’ debt obligations:
|  |  |  |  |  |  | As of September 30, 2025 |  | As of December 31, 2024
| Debt Origination Date |  | Maturity |  | Original Borrowing Amount |  | Carrying Value |  | Interest Rate |  | Carrying Value |  | Interest Rate
Credit Facility(1) | Revolving |  | 4/22/2030 |  | N/A |  | $ | 1,115,000 |  |  | 5.27% |  | $ | — |  |  | —%
2028 Senior Notes(2) | 11/10/2023 |  | 11/10/2028 |  | 500,000 |  |  | 496,506 |  |  | 6.42 |  | 495,677 |  |  | 6.42
2030 Senior Notes(3) | 6/15/2020 |  | 6/15/2030 |  | 400,000 |  |  | 397,841 |  |  | 3.28 |  | 397,501 |  |  | 3.28
2052 Senior Notes(4) | 1/21/2022 |  | 2/1/2052 |  | 500,000 |  |  | 484,908 |  |  | 3.77 |  | 484,601 |  |  | 3.77
2054 Senior Notes(5) | 10/11/2024 |  | 10/11/2054 |  | 750,000 |  |  | 736,265 |  |  | 5.65 |  | 736,010 |  |  | 5.65
2051 Subordinated Notes(6) | 6/30/2021 |  | 6/30/2051 |  | 450,000 |  |  | 445,263 |  |  | 4.13 |  | 445,125 |  |  | 4.13
Total debt obligations |  |  |  |  |  |  | $ | 3,675,783 |  |  |  |  | $ | 2,558,914 |  |  |
(1)In April 2025, the Company amended its Credit Facility to, among other things: (i) extend the maturity from March 31, 2029 to April 22, 2030; (ii) increase commitments from $1.400 billion, with an accordion feature of $600.0 million, to $1.840 billion with an accordion feature of $660.0 million; and (iii) provide a sub-limit for the issuance of swingline loans up to an aggregate amount of $75.0 million (with the amount available for borrowing under the Credit Facility amendment being reduced by any swingline loans issued). The Credit Facility has a variable interest rate based on Secured Overnight Financing Rate (“SOFR”) or a base rate plus an applicable margin, with an unused commitment fee paid quarterly, which is subject to change with the Company’s underlying credit agency rating. As of September 30, 2025, base rate loans bear interest calculated based on the prime rate and the SOFR loans bear interest calculated based on SOFR plus 1.00%. The unused commitment fee is 0.09% per annum. The Credit Facility has a base rate and SOFR floor of zero. (2)The 2028 Senior Notes were issued in November 2023 by the Company at 99.80% of the face amount with interest paid semi-annually. The Company may redeem the 2028 Senior Notes prior to maturity, subject to the terms of the indenture governing the 2028 Senior Notes. (3)The 2030 Senior Notes were issued in June 2020 by Ares Finance Co. II LLC, an indirect subsidiary of the Company, at 99.77% of the face amount with interest paid semi-annually. The Company may redeem the 2030 Senior Notes prior to maturity, subject to the terms of the indenture governing the 2030 Senior Notes. (4)The 2052 Senior Notes were issued in January 2022 by Ares Finance Co. IV LLC, an indirect subsidiary of the Company, at 97.78% of the face amount with interest paid semi-annually. The Company may redeem the 2052 Senior Notes prior to maturity, subject to the terms of the indenture governing the 2052 Senior Notes. (5)The 2054 Senior Notes were issued in October 2024 by the Company at 99.24% of the face amount with interest paid semi-annually. The Company may redeem the 2054 Senior Notes prior to maturity, subject to the terms of the indenture governing the 2054 Senior Notes. (6)The 2051 Subordinated Notes were issued in June 2021 by Ares Finance Co. III LLC, an indirect subsidiary of the Company with interest paid semi-annually at a fixed rate of 4.125%. Beginning June 30, 2026, the interest rate will reset on every fifth year based on the five-year U.S. Treasury Rate plus 3.237%. The Company may redeem the 2051 Subordinated Notes prior to maturity or defer interest payments up to five consecutive years, subject to the terms of the indenture governing the 2051 Subordinated Notes. As of September 30, 2025, the Company and its subsidiaries were in compliance with all covenants under the debt obligations. The Company typically incurs and pays debt issuance costs when entering into a new debt obligation or when amending an existing debt agreement. Debt issuance costs related to the various senior notes (the “Senior Notes”) and the subordinated notes (the “Subordinated Notes”) are recorded as a reduction of the corresponding debt obligation, and debt issuance costs related to the Credit Facility are included within other assets within the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Financial Condition. All debt issuance costs are amortized over the remaining term of the related obligation into interest expense within the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations. The following table presents the activity of the Company’s debt issuance costs:
| Credit Facility |  | Senior Notes |  | Subordinated Notes |  |  |  |
Unamortized debt issuance costs as of December 31, 2024 | $ | 4,858 |  |  | $ | 18,725 |  |  | $ | 4,875 |  |  |  |  |
Debt issuance costs incurred | 2,181 |  |  | 11 |  |  | — |  |  |  |  |
Amortization of debt issuance costs | (944) |  |  | (1,310) |  |  | (138) |  |  |  |  |
Unamortized debt issuance costs as of September 30, 2025 | $ | 6,095 |  |  | $ | 17,426 |  |  | $ | 4,737 |  |  |  |  |
Loan Obligations of the Consolidated CLOs Loan obligations of the Consolidated Funds that are CLOs and other financing obligations (“Consolidated CLOs”) represent amounts due to holders of debt securities issued by the Consolidated CLOs. The Company measures the loan obligations of the Consolidated CLOs using the fair value of the financial assets of its Consolidated CLOs. The following loan obligations were outstanding and classified as liabilities of the Consolidated CLOs:
|  |  | As of September 30, 2025 |  |  | As of December 31, 2024
|  |  | Fair Value of Loan Obligations |  | Weighted Average Interest Rate |  | Weighted Average Remaining Maturity (in years) |  |  | Fair Value of Loan Obligations |  | Weighted Average Interest Rate |  | Weighted Average Remaining Maturity (in years)
Senior secured notes |  |  | $ | 6,838,742 |  |  | 5.48% |  | 8.8 |  |  | $ | 8,937,972 |  |  | 6.08% |  | 8.0
Subordinated notes(1) |  |  | 750,105 |  |  | N/A |  | 10.3 |  |  | 734,217 |  |  | N/A |  | 5.6
Total loan obligations of Consolidated CLOs |  |  | $ | 7,588,847 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | $ | 9,672,189 |  |  |  |  |
(1)The notes do not have contractual interest rates; instead, holders of the notes receive a variable rate of interest amounting to the excess cash flows generated by each Consolidated CLO. Loan obligations of the Consolidated CLOs are collateralized by the assets held by the Consolidated CLOs, consisting of cash and cash equivalents, corporate loans and corporate bonds, among other securities and financial interests. The assets of one Consolidated CLO may not be used to satisfy the liabilities of another Consolidated CLO. Loan obligations of the Consolidated CLOs include floating rate notes, deferrable floating rate notes, revolving lines of credit and subordinated notes. Amounts borrowed under the notes are repaid based on available cash flows subject to priority of payments under each Consolidated CLO’s governing documents. Based on the terms of these facilities, the creditors of the facilities have no recourse to the Company. Credit Facilities of the Consolidated Funds Certain Consolidated Funds maintain credit facilities to fund investments between capital drawdowns. These facilities generally are collateralized by the net assets of the Consolidated Funds or the unfunded capital commitments of the Consolidated Funds’ limited partners, bear an annual commitment fee based on unfunded commitments and contain various affirmative and negative covenants and reporting obligations, including restrictions on additional indebtedness, liens, margin stock, affiliate transactions, dividends and distributions, release of capital commitments and portfolio asset dispositions. The creditors of these facilities have no recourse to the Company and only have recourse to a subsidiary of the Company to the extent the debt is guaranteed by such subsidiary. As of September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, the Consolidated Funds were in compliance with all covenants under such credit facilities. The Consolidated Funds had the following credit facilities outstanding:
|  |  |  |  |  | As of September 30, 2025 |  | As of December 31, 2024 |
|  | Maturity Date |  | Total Capacity |  | Outstanding Loan(1) |  | Effective Rate |  | Outstanding Loan(1) |  | Effective Rate |
Credit Facilities: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
|  | 1/28/2026 |  | $ | 100,000 |  |  | $ | 88,900 |  |  | 6.39% |  | N/A |  | N/A |
|  | 9/24/2026 |  | 300,000 |  |  | 292,890 |  |  | 5.96 |  | 121,000 |  |  | 8.00 |
|  | 9/24/2026 |  | 150,000 |  |  | — |  |  | N/A |  | — |  |  | N/A |
|  | 6/26/2027 |  | 300,000 |  |  | 200,000 |  |  | 6.14 |  | 154,000 |  |  | 7.15 |
|  | 9/12/2027 |  | 54,000 |  |  | — |  |  | N/A |  | — |  |  | N/A |
|  | 6/23/2032 |  | 201,007 |  |  | 201,007 |  |  | 7.23 |  | N/A |  | N/A |
|  | 3/31/2040 |  | 110,235 |  |  | 1,013 |  |  | 12.00 |  | N/A |  | N/A |
|  | 3/31/2040 |  | 88,188 |  |  | 1,471 |  |  | 11.00 |  | N/A |  | N/A |
|  | 8/7/2040 |  | 170,000 |  |  | — |  |  | N/A |  | N/A |  | N/A |
Total borrowings of Consolidated Funds |  |  |  |  |  | $ | 785,281 |  |  |  |  | $ | 275,000 |  |  |  |
(1)The fair values of the borrowings approximate the carrying value as the interest rate on the borrowings is a floating rate.

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