Company: APO
Filing Date: 2025-05-12
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001193125-25-117912
Chunk: 105

Company: Apollo Global Management, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-05-12
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 105
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, all things necessary, proper or advisable under applicable law, including antitrust law, or otherwise to consummate and make effective the transactions as promptly as practicable, subject to and in 
 accordance with the terms and conditions of the merger agreement (as summarized in the section titled “The Mergers—Regulatory Approvals Required for the Mergers” beginning on page 88);                                                              |

| • |     | other terms and conditions of the merger agreement, including: |

| • |     | the terms of the merger agreement providing Bridge sufficient operating flexibility to conduct its business in             
 the ordinary course until the earlier of the consummation of the mergers or the valid termination of the merger agreement; |

| • |     | Bridge’s ability, under circumstances specified in the merger agreement, to seek specific performance to 
 prevent certain breaches of the merger agreement by Apollo and any Merger Sub; and                       |

| • |     | the scope of the representations, warranties and covenants being made by Bridge and Apollo; |

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| • |     | the fact that the voting agreements terminate in the event that the merger agreement is validly terminated in                                                                                                                    
 accordance with its terms, or the special committee makes an adverse recommendation change in accordance with the terms of the merger agreement, in each case, as more fully described in the section titled “Voting Agreements” 
 beginning on page 125.                                                                                                                                                                                                           |

In evaluating the merger agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby and making the decisions, determinations and recommendations described above, the special committee and the Bridge Board considered, among other things, a number of procedural safeguards that they believed were and are present to ensure the fairness of the merger agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby, and to permit the special committee to represent effectively the interests of the holders of Bridge Class A common stock. These procedural safeguards include, among other things, the following, which are not intended to be exhaustive and are not presented in any relative order of importance:

| • |     | that the special committee was formed prior to the negotiation and consideration of the terms of the merger 
 agreement;                                                                                                  |

| • |     | that the special committee had exclusive authority to decide whether or not to proceed with a transaction or any 
 alternative thereto, subject to the Bridge Board’s approval of the transactions;                                 |

| • |     | that the special committee retained and was advised by its own experienced and independent legal and financial 
 advisors;                                                                                                      |

| • |     | that the special committee had the