The private equity group within Ares Management Corporation represents a massive, multi-billion-dollar investment engine spanning corporate private equity, special opportunities, and secondary market strategies. Managing extensive pools of institutional capital, the private equity division targets control or significant minority investments in growing middle-market companies across North America, Europe, and other global regions. Backed by the firm's overarching capital base encompassing hundreds of billions in total assets under management, the private equity arm executes sophisticated buyouts and growth capital investments.