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Issuer:     ARES CAPITAL CORP (ARCC)
CIK:        0001287750
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2025-02-05T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001104659-25-009302
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.65
Item codes: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Ares Capital appoints Kort Schnabel as CEO effective April 30, 2025; Kipp deVeer steps down
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- Kort Schnabel, age 48, currently Co-President, appointed CEO effective April 30, 2025.
- R. Kipp deVeer steps down as CEO but remains Class III director and investment committee member.
- James R. Miller continues as President; Schnabel will not receive compensation from Ares Capital.
- Schnabel joined Ares Management in 2001 and co-founded its U.S. Direct Lending strategy in 2004.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1287750/000110465925009302/0001104659-25-009302-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1287750/000110465925009302/tm255336d1_8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-009302

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