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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-25-009215"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ARES"
cik: "0001176948"
company_name: "Ares Management Corp"
filed_at: "2025-03-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-25T16:56:33.197877+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ares completes GCP International acquisition; global real assets platform tops $115B

## Summary
- Acquisition of GCP International closed; Ares issues up to 10.46M shares of Class A common stock and 2.1M RSUs as partial consideration.
- Pro forma AUM exceeds $525B, with global real assets business over $115B as of Dec 31, 2024.
- Ares becomes a top-3 global logistics owner/operator with 570M+ sq ft of properties; expands into Japan, Brazil, Vietnam.
- Digital infrastructure pipeline exceeds 1GW IT capacity, with ~500MW projects underway.
- Ming Mei (former GCP CEO) joins as Partner and Senior Advisor; Michael Steele (former GCP President) joins as Partner in Real Assets Group.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-25-009215
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ARES
- cik: 0001176948
- company_name: Ares Management Corp
- filed_at: 2025-03-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 3.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1176948/000162828025009215/0001628280-25-009215-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1176948/000162828025009215/ares-20250301.htm

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