Company: APO
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-079161
Chunk: 103

Company: Apollo Global Management, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form: S-4
Chunk 103
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 with its financial and outside legal advisors) that such acquisition proposal is a superior 
 proposal or (ii) in response to an intervening event (as defined below);                                                                                                                                                                                 |

in each case, subject to and in accordance with the terms and conditions of the merger agreement;

| • |     | the likelihood of the mergers being completed, based on, among other matters: |

| • |     | the absence of a financing condition in the merger agreement; |

| • |     | Bridge’s ability, under circumstances specified in the merger agreement, to seek specific performance of 
 Apollo’s obligation to cause the mergers to occur;                                                       |

| • |     | the requirement that the parties use their respective reasonable best efforts to take, or cause to be taken, all                                                                                                                                      
 appropriate action and do, or cause to be done, 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 [●]);                                                             |

| • |     | 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 [●].                                                                                                                                                                                                           |

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