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Ares Management advised on financing for Charterhouse's Batibig acquisition

July 22, 2026 secondary Manager profile

Summary: Ropes & Gray says it advised Ares Management as lender in connection with the financing of Charterhouse Capital Partners' acquisition of Batibig. The July 22, 2026 source describes Batibig as a France-based B2B provider of emergency building repairs, maintenance, and renovation services.

Why it matters: The update may matter to due-diligence readers as a public signal of Ares's private-credit/acquisition-financing activity in a European sponsor-backed transaction, while the source does not disclose loan terms, fund vehicle, credit exposure, pricing, or investment merit.

9AT filing context: Public adviser/profile context reviewed by 9AT maps Ares Management LLC to a large registered adviser/private-markets platform, with CRD 130074 / SEC file 801-63800 and about $608.6B in reported ADV regulatory AUM/profile scale. Use only as identity and platform background; do not use 13F or private-fund data to infer anything about the Batibig financing.

Summary

Ropes & Gray says it advised Ares Management as lender in connection with the financing of Charterhouse Capital Partners’ acquisition of Batibig. The July 22, 2026 law-firm source describes Batibig as a France-based B2B provider of emergency building repairs, maintenance, and renovation services.

The same source says Charterhouse will partner with Batibig’s co-founders and management team and intends to continue pursuing Batibig’s acquisition strategy. This draft treats those transaction and company descriptions as Ropes & Gray-attributed source facts, not as independent validation by 9AT.

Why it matters

For due-diligence readers, the useful signal is that Ares was publicly named as lender in a European sponsor-backed acquisition financing. It is another source-backed datapoint for tracking where a large private-markets platform is appearing in private-credit and acquisition-finance activity.

The signal is bounded. The source supports Ares’s named lender role and the Charterhouse/Batigib transaction context, but it does not disclose loan amount, pricing, covenants, lender affiliate, fund vehicle, credit exposure, expected return, borrower quality, or the investment merits of the transaction.

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9AT filing context

Public adviser/profile context reviewed by 9AT maps Ares Management LLC to a Los Angeles registered adviser/private-markets platform, with CRD 130074, SEC file 801-63800, public domain aresmgmt.com, and about $608.6 billion in reported ADV regulatory AUM/profile scale. The data-analyst handoff also reported separately managed account activity, 1,145 private funds, about $450.1 billion in total private-fund GAV in the returned profile, and a latest profile submission date of 2026-05-29.

That context is useful only for identity and platform-scale background. It should not be used to identify the lender affiliate or fund, infer transaction economics, measure Ares’s exposure to Batibig, assess credit quality, or validate the financing; the transaction facts should remain tied to the Ropes & Gray source.

What to watch

Watch for Ares, Charterhouse, Batibig, Ropes & Gray, or regulatory materials that identify the specific lender affiliate, financing size, maturity, collateral structure, fund vehicle, closing mechanics, or follow-on acquisition activity. Until those details are public, the post should stay at the level of a sourced acquisition-financing role and broad Ares platform context.

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