Mr. Friedman is a Partner in the Ares Credit Group, where he focuses on opportunistic credit investing. Additionally, he serves as a member of the Ares Credit Group's Opportunistic Credit Investment Committee. 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 currently serves on the board of directors for the parent entity of Convene Global Holdings LLC. Mr. Friedman holds a B.A. from Emory University, where he was appointed to the Pi Sigma Alpha Honors Society; a J.D., 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.