Ares Capital Corporation — lobbying record — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Ares Capital Corporation
* Undetermined
67 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2025 · latest filed Oct 17, 2025
Reported on its behalf
$7.8M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$7.8M
across every firm on file
Spend over time
Every filing period on record, as reported. One column per filed period — a period with no column is a period with no filing, not a zero.
Basis · Amendments and terminations supersede the original report for the same registrant, client and period, so a revised quarter is counted once at its latest filed value. Registration-only filings carry no activity money and are excluded from these totals.
Who lobbies for them
Every outside firm that has filed on this client's behalf, by fees reported.
Reading this · LD-2 reports a hired firm's fee and a registrant's reported expenses on separate lines and never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. Firm names link to their own record as the firms chapter lands.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
55 filings
$7M on those filings
Banking
BAN
9 filings
$590K on those filings
Note · A filing names one to several issue areas and reports a single dollar figure for the period, so the same money appears beside every issue that filing declares. The dollar column is therefore — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
This record groups every filed spelling of the client's name into one entity, so "MERCK & CO., INC." and "MERCK & CO INC" read as the same company. The grouping is the client's normalized name — organizations that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: ares-capital-corporation.
spend on filings that named this issue
114th Congress
Small Business Credit Availability Act
5 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 31113th CongressNext Steps for Credit Availability Act5 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2225119th CongressAccess to Small Business Investor Capital Act3 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 4267115th CongressSmall Business Credit Availability Act3 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 5929112th CongressNext Steps for Credit Availability Act3 filingsthrough 2012
How these are found · Bill references are extracted from the free-text activity description each filing writes, then matched to the Congress in session that filing year. A reference we can't match to a bill on file is still shown, unlinked — we cite what the filing said rather than guess at what it meant. Naming a bill is not a position on it: LD-2 records that a client lobbied on the bill, never which side.
Covered position:
44 filingsthrough 2023
Norman BrownsteinBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP43 filingsthrough 2025
Michael B LevyBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP38 filingsthrough 2018
Brian WildBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Senior Advisor-Office of Speaker John Boehner Deputy Assistant for Leg Affairs- VP Cheney Chief of Staff, Rep. Pat Toomey Legislative Assistant- Sen. Hank Brown36 filingsthrough 2023
Judy BlackBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Spec Asst to the President for Intergov Affairs19 filingsthrough 2017
Katelynn BradleyBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Director of Investor and Capital Markets Policy, House Committee on Financial Services; Senior Counsel, House Committee on Financial Services14 filingsthrough 2023
Travis J NortonBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Counsel, Sen. Tim Scott; Staff Dir, Senate Banking Subcomm. on Housing, Transportation, and Community Develop; General Counsel & Parliamentarian, House Financial Services Comm; General Counsel & Parliamentarian, House Judiciary Comm13 filingsthrough 2024
Milan DalalBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Staff Dir., Senate Banking Subcom on Securities, Insurance, and Investments; Staff Dir., Senate Banking Subcom on National Security, International Trade, and Finance; Senior Economic Advisor, Sen. Mark Warner; Legislative Dir, Rep. Gregory Meeks12 filingsthrough 2020
Alfred MotturBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP7 filingsthrough 2010
Michael J StrattonBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP6 filingsthrough 2018
Michael EisenbergBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Intern Congressman Joe Hoeffel6 filingsthrough 2014
Ellen ChubeBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Legislative Asst. - Congressman Harold Ford, Jr.6 filingsthrough 2009
Brian Thomas McguireBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Asst Sec. for Legis. Affairs, Treasury; Counselor, Treasury; COS, Sen McConnell; Acting Staff Dir, R Comm Center, Sen McConnell; Dep Com Dir, Sen McConnell; Chief Speechwriter, Sen McConnell; Chief Speechwriter, HUD4 filingsthrough 2023
Richard MayBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP4 filingsthrough 2008
Brian MckeonBrownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLPCovered position: Legislative Aide - Sen Boxer; Legislative Assistant - Sen Boxer; Domestic Policy Advisor - Sen Boxer; Senior Advisor - Sen Boxer; Senior Counsel - Sen Boxer; Legislative Director - Senator Shaheen2 filingsthrough 2018
