---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-23-087308"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ARCC"
cik: "0001287750"
company_name: "ARES CAPITAL CORP"
filed_at: "2023-08-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-12T07:23:55.540555+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ares Capital issues $600M 7.000% notes due 2027, enters SOFR swap

## Summary
- Issued $600M aggregate principal of 7.000% notes maturing Jan 15, 2027.
- Interest payable semiannually on Jan 15 and Jul 15; first payment Jan 15, 2024.
- Proceeds to repay outstanding indebtedness under debt facilities; may reborrow.
- Entered $600M notional interest rate swap: receives fixed 7.000%, pays 1M SOFR + 2.585%.
- Swap matures Jan 15, 2027; notes are direct unsecured obligations.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-23-087308
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ARCC
- cik: 0001287750
- company_name: ARES CAPITAL CORP
- filed_at: 2023-08-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: debt
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 2.03, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1287750/000110465923087308/0001104659-23-087308-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1287750/000110465923087308/tm2322743d1_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Debt Financings
  ARES CAPITAL CORP incurred senior notes of $600,000,000 aggregate principal amount with U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as successor in interest to U.S. Bank National Association at 7.000% per year payable semiannually maturing January 15, 2027.
  - Instrument: senior notes
  - Principal: $600,000,000 aggregate principal amount
  - Counterparty: U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as successor in interest to U.S. Bank National Association
  - Rate: 7.000% per year payable semiannually
  - Maturity: January 15, 2027
  - Event: incurrence
  source text: On August 3, 2023, Ares Capital Corporation (the “Company”) and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as successor in interest to U.S. Bank National Association (the “Trustee”), entered into a Seventeenth Supplemental Indenture (the “Seventeenth Supplemental Indenture”) to the Indenture, dated October 21, 2010, between the Company and the Trustee (the “Indenture”). The Seventeenth Supplemental Indenture relates to the Company’s issuance, offer and sale of $600,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 7.000% notes due 2027 (the “Notes”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1287750/000110465923087308/0001104659-23-087308-index.htm
- Material Agreements
  ARES CAPITAL CORP entered into Seventeenth Supplemental Indenture with U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as successor in interest to U.S. Bank National Association (the Trustee) valued at $600,000,000 aggregate principal amount (effective 2023-08-03).
  - Action: entry
  - Agreement: notes offering
  - Counterparty: U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as successor in interest to U.S. Bank National Association (the Trustee)
  - Value: $600,000,000 aggregate principal amount
  - Effective: 2023-08-03
  source text: On August 3, 2023, Ares Capital Corporation (the “Company”) and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as successor in interest to U.S. Bank National Association (the “Trustee”), entered into a Seventeenth Supplemental Indenture (the “Seventeenth Supplemental Indenture”)
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1287750/000110465923087308/0001104659-23-087308-index.htm

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