Partner
Ares Asset Management
Mr. Friedman is a Partner in the Ares Private Equity Group, where he focuses on special opportunities investing. He serves as a member of the Ares Special Opportunities Investment Committees. Prior to joining Ares in 2017, Mr. Friedman was an Associate in the Financial Restructuring Group at Milbank LLP and a Secondee at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. in the Special Situations and Distressed Investing Group. Previously, Mr. Friedman was a Judicial Law Clerk in the District Court for the District of Columbia. He was recognized by the American Bankruptcy Institutes as one their 40 under 40 honorees.
Mr. Friedman holds a BA from Emory University, where he was appointed to the Pi Sigma Alpha Honors Society; a JD, summa cum laude, from The George Washington School of Law; and a four year executive program in corporate finance and accounting at Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School. During law school, Mr. Friedman was a George Washington Scholar and received the Charles Glover Award and the Justice Thurgood Marshall Civil Liberties Award.
