Job Description
Ares is currently searching for self-motivated, detail-oriented, astute individuals to join our summer intern program. We seek individuals with intellectual curiosity, a growth mindset, critical thinking skills, initiative, and financial acumen. Below are the criteria we consider:
Responsibilities can include:
PLEASE NOTE: You can only interview and end up interning with one of our business groups that participate in the summer intern program. As part of the application, we’ll ask for your business group preference as well as your location preference. Please thoroughly review below for group descriptions and take note of their available location(s).
Ares Direct Lending is one of the leading players in the industry, with $265 billion in AUM as of September 2025. The group primarily provides senior secured financing solutions to private equity-owned businesses, but has a broad and flexible mandate. It invests up and down the capital structure (senior, junior, mezzanine, equity) and across industries including to non-sponsored businesses and sports & media. It also invests with companies of various sizes, from ~$5 million of EBITDA up to $1+ billion. The group's 25+ year track record of performance and experience are meaningful differentiators relative to peers.
We seek to invest in middle market companies that need flexible capital solutions, primarily in the form of debt and preferred equity and to a lesser extent, common equity. We partner with healthy, stressed and distressed companies across North America and Europe, operating in the void between traditional senior private debt and private equity. We seek to consistently invest in private market opportunities and, when deemed attractive, flex into stressed public markets, often seeking to leverage a public investment into a private follow-on opportunity. The team is industry agnostic and pursues investments where it believes it can identify attractive risk-adjusted returns. We seek to leverage the resources and relationships of the Ares platform in order to provide sponsor-owned and non-sponsored-owned companies with partnership-oriented, flexible-capital solutions. We believe our solutions can offer the flexibility and capital for (i) healthy companies to play offense (e.g., M&A, capex) and (ii) stressed or distressed companies to play defense (e.g., improving cash flows, reducing leverage).
Our Private Equity Group seeks attractive risk-adjusted investment returns for a diversified and growing group of high-profile limited partners and has approximately $25.1 billion of assets under management via its Corporate Opportunities, APAC Private Equity and other strategies as of September 30, 2025. 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 flagship corporate opportunities strategy seeks 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 and our proprietary Value Creation System to generate predictable alpha across market environments.
Ares Infrastructure Debt sources global assets and businesses with defensive characteristics across the digital, transport, energy and utility sectors. Through 21+ years of industry experience, we have established long standing relationships allowing us to seek to generate exclusive deal flow and high-quality investment opportunities. Our structuring experience helps enhance cash yield and reduce downside risks in a core asset class. Our 10+ years' track record, rigorous due-diligence and robust risk management processes mean that we strive to achieve stable risk-adjusted investment returns throughout volatile markets.
With over three decades of secondary market experience, the Ares Secondaries Group has been a pioneer and innovator across the real estate, private equity, infrastructure and credit asset classes. With over $27.3 billion in AUM as of September 30, 2024, we have invested across thousands of partnership interests, creating differentiation in proprietary transactions through our deeply established relationships with institutional investors and fund sponsors. Our team is supported by an in-house Quantitative Research Group that generates leading analytics and research to support origination, underwriting, and portfolio management activities. We seek to partner with our investors to develop comprehensive investment solutions, while capitalizing on the potential benefits of secondary investing. Our objective is to deliver attractive returns to investors by providing access to enhanced diversification, smoothing of the “J-curve” and exposure to durable assets.
The Ares Secondaries Group formalized its Credit Secondaries strategy in 2023, seeking to capitalize on the growth of the market and Ares’ leadership across the credit and secondaries asset classes. Our strategy is focused on constructing diversified portfolios of secondary credit interests, focusing on first lien debt with top performing managers. Our dedicated team represents a combination of our credit and secondaries capabilities, leveraging extensive industry experience and a cycle-tested investment approach that enable us to identify attractive risk-adjusted opportunities.
Launched in 2014, our Infrastructure Secondaries strategy seeks to accelerate the benefits of traditional infrastructure by providing diversified low risk exposure through preferred structure, traditional limited partnership and GP-led continuation vehicle transactions. We believe our tenured secondaries infrastructure investment team has specialized experience across the capital structure with diversified underwriting experience spanning various infrastructure sub-sectors. Our infrastructure secondaries program capitalizes on synergies with our private equity and real estate programs and leverages the depth and experience of our Quantitative Research Group to bolster our deployment activities. This, combined with the breadth of the Ares Infrastructure Debt and Equity platforms, creates a scale that can provide significant sourcing, diligence and execution edges.
The Ares Secondaries Group launched one of the market’s first private equity secondaries funds in 1990 and has continued to be one of the pioneers in the secondaries market. Our Private Equity Secondaries strategy maintains a differentiated investment approach that utilizes our internal research processes to help provide customized transaction solutions to institutional investors and fund sponsors. We provide LP-led, GP-led and structured secondary solutions with a long-term and demonstrated performance history for our clients and partners. Our ability to be a thought partner with our counterparties and our use of innovative structures enhances our ability to underwrite investment opportunities as we seek to generate attractive risk-adjusted returns.
Our Real Estate Secondaries strategy has a demonstrated history of innovation through bespoke transaction solutions tailored to meet the needs of limited partners and general partners alike. We are generally recognized as originating the first significant transaction in the secondary market for private real estate funds in 1996. Since completing this large scale institutional real estate secondary transaction, we have positioned ourselves to capitalize on inefficiencies in the secondary market, through the development of a well-tenured dedicated investment team, in-house research, cross-platform resources and an extensive network across investor and fund sponsor communities. The cornerstone of our investment philosophy seeks to generate attractive risk-adjusted returns while creating a high degree of diversification across resilient real estate sectors and partnerships.
Ares Management Corporation (“Ares” or the “Firm”) is a publicly traded, leading global alternative asset manager with approximately $595 billion of assets under management ("AUM") and approximately 4,270 employees. We seek to deliver attractive performance to our investor base across our investment groups and strategies, including credit, private equity, real estate and strategic initiatives. The firm is headquartered in Los Angeles with offices across the United States, Europe, Asia and Australia. Its common shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "ARES".
Ares believes each of its investment groups is a market leader based on assets under management and investment performance. Our three distinct but complementary investment groups have the ability to invest across a company’s capital structure—from senior debt to common equity. The Firm was built upon the fundamental principle that each group benefits from being part of the broader platform. We believe the synergies from this multi-asset strategy provide our professionals with insights into industry trends, access to significant deal flow and the ability to assess relative value.
Since our inception in 1997, we have adhered to a disciplined investment philosophy that focuses on delivering compelling risk-adjusted investment returns throughout market cycles. We strive to maintain a consistent credit-based approach in targeting well-structured investments in high quality businesses and real estate assets. We believe our growth in becoming one of the largest alternative asset managers is a testament to our experienced management team, focus on performance and high-quality investor base, which includes large pension funds, university endowments, sovereign wealth funds, banks and insurance companies.
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The anticipated rate for this position is listed below.
Ares provides interns with paid holidays in accordance with the firm’s holiday calendar.
Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the search is no longer active.