JLL vs ARCC Comparison

Jones Lang LaSalle is a global commercial real estate services and investment management company that helps clients buy, build, occupy, manage, and invest in property across office, industrial, retail, multifamily, hotel, and data center assets. For over 200 years, clients have trusted JLL, a Fortune 500 company, tracing its roots to firms including LaSalle Partners (founded in Chicago in 1968) and the centuries-old London firm Jones Lang Wootton, which merged in 1999 to form the modern JLL. Today, the firm is a leading global commercial real estate services and investment management company with operations in over 80 countries and a global workforce of more than 113,000, as of early 2026.

Ares Capital Corp is a United States-based closed-ended specialty finance company. Its investment objective is to generate both current income and capital appreciation through debt and equity investments. The company focuses on investing in first lien senior secured loans (including unitranche loans, which are loans that combine both senior and subordinated debt, generally in a first lien position) and second lien senior secured loans. In addition to senior secured loans, the company also invests in subordinated loans and preferred equity, it also makes common equity investments.