Investment Range
$12.5M – $150M USD
Deal Types
ABL, Equipment Finance, Revolving Credit
Sectors
Healthcare, Manufacturing, Technology, Consumer, Transportation, Infrastructure, Real Estate, Media/Telecom, Mining & Resources
Geographies
North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Middle East & Africa, Latin America, Global
AUM
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Headquarters
New York, NY, United States
Part of a multi-strategy platform
Aresruns multiple lending verticals with different check sizes and mandates — this page covers one desk. If your deal isn't an exact fit here, the group may still have the right team; an intro request gets routed to the right desk.
Keltic Financial Services was acquired by Ares Management in 2014 and is now part of Ares Commercial Finance. Ares Commercial Finance is the asset-based lending platform of Ares Management. Source: SFNet article (June 10, 2024) and Ares Commercial Finance website (accessed Mar 2026).
$500M credit facility for Aledade (Dec 2025); $150M senior secured financing for Lifted Trucks (Sep 2025); $150M asset-based financing for Fossil Group, Inc. (Aug 2025) FirstLight Financial: Unspecified Term Loan $36M (2006-01-01) [TerraNova tape]
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