Item 8.01. Other Events.

As previously disclosed, Ares Capital Corporation (the "Company") entered into a Purchase Agreement, dated as of January 12, 2022, among the Company, Ares Capital Management LLC, Ares Operations LLC and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, BofA Securities, Inc. and UBS Securities LLC, as representatives of the several underwriters named on Schedule A thereto (collectively, the "Underwriters"), pursuant to which the Company granted the Underwriters an option to purchase up to an additional 1,500,000 shares of the Company's common stock.

On January 21, 2022, the Company sold 1,200,000 shares of its common stock to the Underwriters pursuant to the Underwriters' partial exercise of such option to purchase additional shares. The Company raised approximately $25.3 million in net proceeds from the sale of these additional shares of its common stock, which brought the total net proceeds of the offering to approximately $235.5 million after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses.





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