Ares Commercial Finance (formerly Keltic Financial Services)
- Check size
- $12.5M–$150MunconfirmedTypical across all lenders: $5M–$50M, the median of 232 confirmed check sizes. Not this lender's own figure.
- Structures
- ABL, Equipment Finance, Revolving Credit
- Sectors
- Healthcare, Manufacturing, Technology, Consumer, Transportation, Infrastructure, Real Estate, Media/Telecom, Mining & Resources
- Geographies
- North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Middle East & Africa, Latin America, Global
- Headquarters
- New York, NY, United States
Team
Deal-team contacts
Deal-team contacts are not sold on this site. A TerraNova Capital Partners banker can coordinate an approach to Ares Commercial Finance (formerly Keltic Financial Services) as part of a written advisory engagement.
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About
Keltic Financial Services was acquired by Ares Management in 2014 and is now part of Ares Commercial Finance. Ares Commercial Finance is the asset-based lending platform of Ares Management.
Recent activity
$500M credit facility for Aledade (Dec 2025); $150M senior secured financing for Lifted Trucks (Sep 2025); $150M asset-based financing for Fossil Group, Inc. (Aug 2025)
Part of a multi-strategy platform
Ares runs multiple lending verticals with different check sizes and mandates — this page covers one of them. If your deal isn't an exact fit here, the group may still have the right team; an intro request gets routed to the right deal team.
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