Ares Capital Corporation and Veronis Suhler
Stevenson Partner to Bring Debt Capital to
Growing Companies
Partnership to Source Proprietary Deal Flow in Underserved Segment of Market to the Growing Industry
Verticals of Information, Education, Media and Marketing Services
June 21, 2010 08:03 AM Eastern Daylight Time
NEW YORK--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Ares Capital Corporation, (NASDAQ: ARCC), a leading middle
market capital provider, and Veronis Suhler Stevenson (VSS), a global private equity and mezzanine investor, today
announced that they have entered into an agreement to collaborate in bringing flexible debt capital to small and
middle-market companies in the information, education, media and marketing services industries.
Through this relationship, VSS and Ares Capital will team up to source and provide flexible senior debt financing to
companies in select industries with $5 million to $35 million of EBITDA, a market underserved by financial
institutions. VSS has brought on Bill Archer former Chief Credit Officer of Bankers Trust and Chief Debt
Underwriter for Goldman Sachs, as Partner-VSS Debt Capital to head up its senior lending activities.
“We view this strategic relationship with Ares Capital as a significant benefit to our industry because of the current
lack of capital available to lower middle market companies,” said Archer. “Ares Capital’s efficient access to capital,
scale and demonstrated credit expertise is a perfect complement for our strong, proprietary deal flow and
demonstrated industry knowledge within our market segments.”
“We look forward to a very productive strategic relationship with the well-established and highly regarded industry
experts at VSS,” said Michael Arougheti, President of Ares Capital. “This relationship is expected to provide
additional proprietary deal flow to us in several key sectors and strengthen our relationship with a valued private
equity sponsor client. We believe this collaboration is a creative and efficient way to expand our o