2026 Summer Intern – Real Estate – Debt
Application Closes Sunday, January 19th, 2025
Eligibility and Responsibilities
Ares is currently searching for self-motivated, detail-oriented, astute individuals to join our summer intern program. We seek individuals with intellectual curiosity, a growth mindset, critical thinking skills, initiative, and financial acumen. Below are the criteria we consider:
- Anticipated graduation date between December 2026 and August 2027
- Currently enrolled as an undergraduate student, ideally majoring in field related to Finance, Business Administration, or Economics
- Have a track record of academic excellence and participation in campus activities
- Knowledge of finance and accounting is a plus but not required. We are primarily looking for general aptitude and willingness to learn
- Superior oral and written communication skills
- Novice to intermediate Microsoft Excel skills
- Exceptional attention to detail and proven ability to multi-task
- Initiative and a strong entrepreneurial mindset
- The ability to research solutions and be a problem solver
- Looking to complete a 10-week summer internship
Responsibilities can include:
- Understanding and executing the due diligence process
- Collaborating with other members of the deal teams
- Designing, building and updating integrated financial models using Excel and other tools
- Developing and providing investment recommendations and preparing investment committee memos
- Understanding industry research, trends and drivers
- Conducting market research for investment opportunities in the pipeline
- Interfacing with portfolio companies, management teams, third party diligence providers, and other external partners
- Fund-level management and reporting
- Supporting deal teams with structuring, underwriting and closing equity and debt investments across diverse industries
- Business group specific tasks
PLEASE NOTE: You can only interview and end up interning with one of our business groups that participate in the summer intern program. As part of the application, we’ll ask for your business group preference as well as your location preference.
Make sure to select Real Estate – Debt as one of your business group preferences to be considered.
Debt (New York, Los Angeles)
Our real estate debt team directly originates and invests in a wide range of self-originated financing opportunities for owners and operators of U.S. commercial real estate. In addition to managing private funds, we make investments through a specialty finance company, ACRE, primarily focused on directly originating, managing and servicing a diversified portfolio of commercial real estate (“CRE”) debt-related investments. Our Real Estate Debt team focuses on directly originating loans using its extensive national relationships with various owner-operators, sponsors and intermediaries of real estate properties. We seek to provide flexible financing across a potential borrower’s capital structure. While we focus on self-originated transactions, we will also selectively pursue secondary market acquisitions and club/syndicated transactions.
Ares Firm Overview
Ares Management Corporation (“Ares” or the “Firm”) is a publicly traded, leading global alternative asset manager with approximately $447 billion of assets under management (“AUM”) and approximately 2,950 employees. We seek to deliver attractive performance to our investor base across our investment groups and strategies, including credit, private equity, real estate and strategic initiatives. The firm is headquartered in Los Angeles with offices across the United States, Europe, Asia and Australia. Its common shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “ARES”.
Ares believes each of its investment groups is a market leader based on assets under management and investment performance. Our three distinct but complementary investment groups have the ability to invest across a company’s capital structure—from senior debt to common equity. The Firm was built upon the fundamental principle that each group benefits from being part of the broader platform. We believe the synergies from this multi-asset strategy provide our professionals with insights into industry trends, access to significant deal flow and the ability to assess relative value.
Since our inception in 1997, we have adhered to a disciplined investment philosophy that focuses on delivering compelling risk-adjusted investment returns throughout market cycles. We strive to maintain a consistent credit-based approach in targeting well-structured investments in high quality businesses and real estate assets. We believe our growth in becoming one of the largest alternative asset managers is a testament to our experienced management team, focus on performance and high-quality investor base, which includes large pension funds, university endowments, sovereign wealth funds, banks and insurance companies.
Over the last 20 years, Ares’ success has been driven by our people and our culture. Today, our team is guided by our core values – Collaborative, Responsible, Entrepreneurial, Self-Aware, Trustworthy – and our purpose to be a catalyst for shared prosperity and a better future. Through our recruitment, career development and employee-focused programming, we are committed to fostering a welcoming and inclusive work environment where high-performance talent of diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives can build careers within this exciting and growing industry.