Ares Sports, Media and Entertainment Opportunities LP: sells $77,039,155 of units

What happened

• On Oct 1, 2026, Ares Sports, Media and Entertainment Opportunities LP filed a Form 8-K reporting that it sold unregistered limited partnership units (the “Units”) for aggregate consideration of approximately $77,039,155.
• The filing reports the Units sold by class: Class I Units, 132,179 for $3,806,094; Class A-S Units, 656,896 for $18,763,325; Class A-I Units, 378,838 for $10,943,882; Class E Units, 1,477,627 for $43,525,854. The number of Units sold was finalized on Oct 21, 2026 after calculating transactional net asset values as of Sep 30, 2026.

Key details

• The offer and sale were part of the Fund’s continuous private offering to investors who are both accredited investors under Regulation D and qualified purchasers under the Investment Company Act.
• Units were sold to third-party investors, including through Ares SME O TE LP (the “Feeder”) for investors with particular tax characteristics, such as tax-exempt investors and non-U.S. investors.
• As of the date of the filing, the Fund has issued interests for aggregate cash consideration of approximately $988,000,000 as part of its continuous private offering.

Why it may matter

• The filing reports Item 3.02 (Unregistered sales of equity securities), which covers the offer and sale of the Units, and Item 8.01 (Other events), which describes the offering terms and the use of the Feeder.
• This filing does not show why the insider traded or why the company acted.