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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-23-022116"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ARES"
cik: "0001176948"
company_name: "Ares Management Corp"
filed_at: "2023-06-15T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-13T23:46:07.912059+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ares Management stockholders elect all 11 director nominees and approve auditor and 2023 equity plan

## Summary
- All 11 director nominees elected with FOR votes ranging from 805M to 862M; broker non-votes 11M.
- Ratification of Ernst & Young as auditor for FY2023 approved: 872.9M FOR, 0.8M against.
- Ares Management 2023 Equity Incentive Plan approved: 769.1M FOR (89.3% of votes cast).
- Total votes outstanding as of record date April 14, 2023: 889.8M across Class A, B, C common stock.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-23-022116
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ARES
- cik: 0001176948
- company_name: Ares Management Corp
- filed_at: 2023-06-15T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1176948/000162828023022116/0001628280-23-022116-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1176948/000162828023022116/ares-20230612.htm

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## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  Ares Management Corp shareholders approved Approval of Ares Management Corporation 2023 Equity Incentive Plan at the 2023-06-12 meeting.
  - Proposal: equity plan
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-06-12
  source text: Proposal 3 The stockholders approved the Ares Management Corporation 2023 Equity Incentive Plan, based on the following votes : FOR AGAINST ABSTAIN BROKER NON-VOTES 769,111,843 92,394,321 1,164,372 11,032,530
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1176948/000162828023022116/0001628280-23-022116-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  Ares Management Corp shareholders approved Ratification of Ernst & Young LLP as independent registered public accounting firm at the 2023-06-12 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-06-12
  source text: Proposal 2 The proposal to ratify the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the Company’s 2023 fiscal year was approved based on the following votes: FOR AGAINST ABSTAIN 872,897,927 775,392 29,747
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1176948/000162828023022116/0001628280-23-022116-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  Ares Management Corp shareholders approved Election of Directors at the 2023-06-12 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-06-12
  source text: The nominees listed below were elected as directors of the Company to serve for one-year terms expiring at the 2024 Annual Meeting of Stockholders once their respective successors have been duly elected and qualified or until their earlier resignation or removal, based on the following votes:
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1176948/000162828023022116/0001628280-23-022116-index.htm

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