 LOS ANGELES--BUSINESS WIRE--Ares Management Corporation Ares NYSE: ARES announced today that funds managed by its European Direct Lending strategy are serving as the sole lenders of 1 billion of available debt facilities to the RSK Group RSK, the U.K.s largest privately-owned multi-disciplinary environmental business. This transaction marks the largest private credit-backed sustainability linked financing to date and will be used to refinance RSKs existing credit facilities as we 