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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-123783"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0002046946"
company_name: "Ares Sports, Media & Entertainment Opportunities LP"
filed_at: "2025-12-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T12:29:10.317324+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ares SME Opportunities LP raises $57.8M in unregistered Unit sale; NAV $556M

## Summary
- Sold 2,160,962 Units across five classes for aggregate consideration of $57,776,553 as part of continuous private offering.
- Total issued to date: approximately $591M in aggregate cash consideration.
- Transactional NAV per Unit as of Nov 30, 2025 ranges from $26.70 (Class A-S) to $26.81 (Class I, N, A-I, E).
- Aggregate Transactional NAV as of Nov 30, 2025 was approximately $556M.
- Units sold to accredited investors/qualified purchasers, including through Feeder Ares SME O TE LP for tax-exempt and non-U.S. investors.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-123783
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0002046946
- company_name: Ares Sports, Media & Entertainment Opportunities LP
- filed_at: 2025-12-22T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 3.02, 7.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2046946/000110465925123783/0001104659-25-123783-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2046946/000110465925123783/tm2525590d6_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Equity Issuances
  Ares Sports, Media & Entertainment Opportunities LP issued Class S Units 3,743; Class I Units 254,298; Class A-S Units 1,389,207; Class A-I Units 513,714 of unit to accredited investors and qualified purchasers for aggregate consideration of approximately $57.8 million.
  - Security: unit
  - Shares: Class S Units 3,743; Class I Units 254,298; Class A-S Units 1,389,207; Class A-I Units 513,714
  - Purchaser: accredited investors and qualified purchasers
  - Consideration: aggregate consideration of approximately $57.8 million
  source text: On December 1, 2025, Ares Sports, Media and Entertainment Opportunities LP (the “Fund”) sold unregistered limited partnership units (the “Units”) for aggregate consideration of approximately $57.8 million.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2046946/000110465925123783/0001104659-25-123783-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.