Company: APO
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-079161
Chunk: 44

Company: Apollo Global Management, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form: S-4
Chunk 44
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 in the merger agreement with respect to such superior proposal.                                                                                                                        |

If the merger agreement is terminated as described above, the merger agreement will be void and have no effect, and there will be no liability or obligation on the part of any party (or its respective affiliates, officers, directors, stockholders, partners or other equityholders or any representative), except that:

| • |     | certain provisions contained in the merger agreement with respect to confidentiality, public announcements,                                                                                         
 Apollo’s expense reimbursement and indemnification obligations, effect of termination, the termination fee and other miscellaneous provisions will survive the termination of the merger agreement; |

| • |     | the agreements contained in the confidentiality agreement between Apollo and Bridge will survive the termination 
 of the merger agreement; and                                                                                     |

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| • |     | no termination will relieve any party of any liability or damages resulting from a material breach of the merger                                                                                                                                         
 agreement as a result of a deliberate action taken or deliberate failure to act that the breaching party intentionally takes (or fails to take) and actually knows would or would reasonably be expected to be or cause a breach of the merger agreement 
 or fraud occurring prior to such termination.                                                                                                                                                                                                            |

Termination Fees The merger agreement further provides that Bridge will pay or cause to be paid to Apollo a fee of $45,000,000 (the “termination fee”) in connection with a termination of the merger agreement under the following circumstances:

| • |     | (x) Apollo or Bridge terminates the merger agreement due to (i) the closing not having occurred by the end                                                                                                                                             
 date or (ii) the failure to obtain the Bridge stockholder approval and (y) (A) prior to the termination of the merger agreement (or solely with respect to a termination pursuant to foregoing clause (ii), prior to the special meeting of            
 Bridge stockholders), an acquisition proposal (defined for this purpose with all references to “twenty percent (20%)” in the definition of acquisition proposal (found on page [●]) being replaced with “fifty percent (50%)”)                         
 has been made to Bridge or its stockholders (solely with respect to a termination pursuant to the foregoing clause (i)) or has been publicly announced or becomes publicly known and not withdrawn prior to the special meeting of Bridge stockholders 
 (solely with respect to a termination pursuant to the foregoing clause (ii)), and (B) within twelve (12) months of the termination of the merger agreement, Bridge consummates any acquisition proposal or enters into a definitive agreement