ACOF VII provides a timely opportunity for BNP Paribas WM clients to invest in a flexible Private Equity fund, managed by a leading global alternative investment manager. Ares invests in growth buyouts, with the unique ability to pivot into special situations during periods of recession, by investing in high-quality companies with distressed capital structures.
Targeting a fund size of $6 billion, ACOF VII will invest in its 4 core industries - Healthcare, Services, Industrials and Consumer - mainly in North America and, to a lesser extent, in Europe. Within these sectors, Ares invests in middle-market companies with inefficiencies, with the aim of driving value creation through operational growth.
Ares is one of the largest alternative investment managers in the world and one of the leading direct lenders in North America and Europe, which has led to develop a differentiated and flexible Private Equity strategy, combining buyouts and special situations. This all-weather strategy, targeting good companies with constrained capital structures, is well adapted to periods of heightened market volatility, inflation and rising interest rates.
Ares’ Corporate Opportunities strategy has generated a solid 20-year track record in its 4 core industries, where its mature funds (1) have generated a gross return of 2.6x (2) the invested amount and a gross IRR of 27% (2), across both growth buyouts and distressed strategies.
This performance is mainly due to Ares’ long-term approach to value creation through operational and strategic initiatives. Thus, about 83% of the value creation was driven by the portfolio companies’ growth in operating profit.
1.“Mature Funds” performance reflects the aggregate performance of the predecessor funds that will be outside of their investment period by the time ACOF VII begins investing and consists of the track records of ACOF I (2003 vintage) to ACOF V (2017 vintage).
2. As at 31 March 2023. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance. No guarantee is given on the success, profitability, return or benefit of this investment. Core Industries Growth Buyouts and Distressed performance includes all investments in ACOF’s Core Industries of (i) Healthcare, (ii) Services, (iii) Industrials and (iv) Consumer, and excludes the impact of those investments in the energy equipment & services industry and the oil, gas & consumable fuels, industry, and the renewable electricity and additional investments not included in ACOF’s Core Industries (“i.e. “other investments”).
Private Equity provides diversification in a portfolio, aiming for high returns to compensate for illiquidity and a long-term maturity. In addition it continues to outperform stock markets over the long term across different economic cycles
Periods of economic downturn are usually good entry points for Private Equity funds to capitalize on attractive entry valuations.
Leading Private Equity managers are well equipped to seize attractive opportunities and then implement growth strategies based on operational improvement while demonstrating a capacity to adapt to complex and uncertain environments.
*Past performance is not an indicator of future performance.
*Source : Ares Management & BNP Paribas Wealth Management – July 2023
1 As of 31 March 2023.
2. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performances. No guarantee is given on the success, profitability, return or benefit of this investment.
3. Core Industries Growth Buyouts and Distressed performance includes all investments in ACOF’s Core Industries of (i) Healthcare, (ii) Services, (iii) Industrials and (iv) Consumer, and excludes the impact of those investments in the energy equipment & services industry and the oil, gas & consumable fuels, industry, and the renewable electricity and additional investments not included in ACOF’s Core Industries (“i.e. “other investments”).
Global Head of Private and Alternative Investments ·
BNP Paribas Wealth Management
After joining BNP Paribas Wealth Management in 2004, Claire Roborel de Climens set up the Private Equity Group. In 2010 she was also nominated Head of Real Estate. In 2015, she became Head of the Private and Alternative Investments department, adding the Hedge Funds, Strategic-A (asset allocation service), Philanthropy Advisory and AgriFrance activities to her scope of responsibility.
Claire is a member of various advisory boards of Global and European Private Equity and Real Estate funds. She sits on the board of Global General Partner, the AIFM manager of PERE feeder funds, and on the Supervisory Board of BNP Paribas Real Estate investment Management France (REIM).
Prior to joining BNP Paribas Wealth Management, Claire worked 10 years for PAI Partners, a leading pan-European Private Equity firm, as a manager in the Finance Department, Investor Relations activities and then as an investor in the General Industrials sector where she was involved in many LBO transactions.
She started her career as an auditor at Ernst & Young where she worked for six years for large industrial groups and Private Equity funds.
Claire Roborel de Climens is a graduate of the EMLyon business school.
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Ares Corporate Opportunities Fund VII Parallel (Lux Foreign), SCSp is a Luxembourg special limited partnership (Société en Commandite Spéciale) (the “Master Fund”). It is managed by its co-general partners: ACOF Lux Management VII S.à r.l., a Luxembourg private limited liability company (société à responsabilité limitée) having its registered office at 14-16, avenue Pasteur, 2310 Luxembourg, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and registered with the Luxembourg RCS under number B274820 (the “Lux Co-General Partner”) and ACOF Management VII, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership, (the “Delaware Co-General Partner” and together and when acting jointly with the Lux Co-General Partner, the “Master Fund’s General Partner”). The Master Fund’s General Partner has appointed Vistra Fund Management S.A., a public limited liability company (société anonyme) whose registered office is located at 16, rue Eugène Ruppert, L-2453, Luxembourg, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and is registered with the RCS under number B202832, as manager to manage and operate the Master Fund (the “Master Fund’s AIFM”). The Master Fund’s AIFM is authorized by the Luxembourg financial supervisory authority (the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier - “CSSF”) to manage alternative investment funds and is responsible for the portfolio and risk management of the Master Fund, in compliance with the European Directive 2011/61/EU of 8 June 2011 on Alternative Investment Fund Managers.
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BNP Paribas SA (the “Placement Agent”) is acting as placement agent for the Fund. The Placement Agent is not a current advisory client of ARES; however, the Placement Agent and/or affiliates and employees of the Placement Agent may be investors in investment funds advised by ARES, some of which may have negotiated beneficial economic terms in connection therewith (e.g., reduced compensation percentages). For providing solicitation and other services with respect to certain investors who invest in the Fund, the Placement Agent will receive cash compensation in the form of fees generally based on the amount of capital commitments that will ultimately be borne directly or indirectly by ARES rather than the Fund; however, in certain cases the Fund is expected to bear certain out-of-pocket expenses related to the Placement Agent’s engagement and solicitation of investors. As a result, the Placement Agent has a material incentive and potential conflict of interest to recommend an investment in the Fund. The Placement Agent seeks to manage any such potential conflicts of interest that could result from this incentive under a framework of procedures and policies deployed to manage potential conflicts of interests, in compliance with its applicable laws and regulations. The Placement Agent also expects, from time to time, to do business with and earn fees or commissions from affiliates of ARES, as well as with other third party fund sponsors that may have similar or different investment objectives from the Fund, including the provision of advisory and placement services. Accordingly, potential investors should recognize that the Placement Agent’s participation as placement agent for interests in the Fund will potentially be influenced in certain circumstances by its interest in such compensation, including differentials in compensation are offered by ARES or other sponsors for which the Placement Agent acts as placement agent.