PacWest sells troubled loan portfolio to Ares in $3.5 billion deal.
PacWest announced a $3.5 billion sale of loans to alternative investment manager Ares Management, providing another lift to a regional bank hammered during the industry chaos earlier this year. PacWest is one of several regional lenders that struggled to keep depositors following the March 10 failure of Silicon Valley Bank. Since then, those stocks rallied for four of the last six weeks on optimism that the worst was over for regional banks.




