Company: APO
Filing Date: 2025-05-14
Form Type: 424B3
Source: 0001193125-25-119946
Chunk: 119

Company: Apollo Global Management, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-05-14
Form: 424B3
Chunk 119
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 connection with its evaluation of the transactions, and addressed only the fairness, from a financial point of view, as of the date thereof, of the Corporate Merger consideration provided for in the merger agreement to the holders of shares of Bridge ClassA common stock (other than (a)any holder that also holds Bridge LLC ClassA common units and their respective Affiliates (as defined in the merger agreement), (b) any director of Bridge, (c)any Person (as defined in the merger agreement) that Bridge has determined to be an “officer” of

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Bridge within the meaning of Rule 16a-1(f)of the Exchange Act, (d) Apollo, the Merger Subs, or any other Person having any equity interest in, or any right to acquire any equity interest in, the Merger Subs or any person of which any Merger Sub is a direct or indirect Subsidiary (as defined in the merger agreement) or (e) any “immediate family member” (as defined in Item 404 of Regulation S-K)or “affiliate” or “associate” (as defined in Section 12b-2of the Exchange Act) of any of the foregoing). The Lazard Opinion is not intended to and does not constitute a recommendation to any stockholder or any other person as to how such stockholder or person should vote or act with respect to the mergers or any matter relating thereto. The full text of the written Lazard Opinion should be read carefully in its entirety for a description of the assumptions made, procedures followed, matters considered, and applicable qualifications and limitations based upon the review undertaken by Lazard in preparing its opinion. In connection with its opinion, Lazard:

| • |     | reviewed the financial terms and conditions of the merger agreement; |

| • |     | reviewed certain publicly available historical business and financial information relating to Bridge and Apollo; |

| • |     | reviewed (A) certain financial forecasts and other data provided by the management of Bridge and utilized at                                                                        
 the direction of the special committee relating to the business of Bridge and (B) certain publicly available financial forecasts and other data relating to the business of Apollo; |

| • |     | held discussions with members of the senior management of Bridge with respect to the business and prospects of 
 Bridge;                                                                                                        |

| • |     | reviewed public information with respect to certain other companies in lines of business Lazard believed to be 
 generally relevant in evaluating the business of Bridge;