---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001327978-24-000073"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ZARE"
cik: "0001327978"
company_name: "Ares Real Estate Income Trust Inc."
filed_at: "2024-06-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-01T06:12:07.613304+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ares Real Estate Income Trust Head of Debt Capital Markets Lainie Minnick resigns for personal reasons

## Summary
- Ms. Lainie Minnick, Head of Debt Capital Markets, resigned for personal reasons; effective date not yet determined.
- She will remain with the company temporarily to assist with transition.
- No successor has been named.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001327978-24-000073
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ZARE
- cik: 0001327978
- company_name: Ares Real Estate Income Trust Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-06-05T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1327978/000132797824000073/0001327978-24-000073-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1327978/000132797824000073/are-20240530x8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001327978-24-000073.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Lainie Minnick departed as Head of Debt Capital Markets at Ares Real Estate Income Trust Inc..
  - Action: stepped down
  - Role: Head of Debt Capital Markets
  source text: On May 30, 2024, Ms. Lainie Minnick informed Ares Real Estate Income Trust Inc. (referred to herein as the "Company," "we," "our," or "us") that she will step down as the Company’s Head of Debt Capital Markets for personal reasons.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1327978/000132797824000073/0001327978-24-000073-index.htm

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