Company: APO
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-079161
Chunk: 101

Company: Apollo Global Management, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form: S-4
Chunk 101
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 committee and the Bridge Board (which are summarized in the section titled “The Mergers—Bridge Unaudited Prospective Financial Information” beginning on page [●]); |

| • |     | the risks, compliance costs and obligations imposed upon Bridge as a result of having publicly traded Bridge 
 Class A common stock, including the risks of market volatility; and                                          |

| • |     | the relatively small public float of Bridge Class A common stock as a percentage of the total outstanding 
 shares of such stock;                                                                                     |

| • |     | the fact that the implied merger consideration, valued by the parties at $11.50 per share of Bridge Class A                                                                                                                                      
 common stock, payable in Apollo common stock, represented a premium of approximately 45.2% to the closing trading price of Bridge common stock of $7.92 on February 21, 2025 (the last trading day prior to public announcement of the mergers); |

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| • |     | the conclusions of the special committee and the Bridge Board that the mergers represent the best transaction  
 reasonably available for Bridge stockholders in light of the foregoing factors as well as, among other things: |

| • |     | the views of the special committee and the Bridge Board that the merger consideration to be paid to the holders                                           
 of Bridge Class A common stock in accordance with the merger agreement represented the highest per share consideration that could reasonably be obtained; |

| • |     | the conclusion of the special committee and the Bridge Board that the merger consideration to be paid to the                                                                                                                                   
 holders of Bridge Class A common stock was more favorable to such holders than the potential value that might result from other alternatives reasonably available to Bridge, including the alternative of remaining an independent company and 
 pursuing Bridge’s current strategic plan, and other strategic or financial alternatives that might be undertaken as an independent company, in light of a number of factors, including the risks and uncertainties associated with those       
 alternatives and the administrative and compliance costs associated with operating Bridge as a publicly traded company;                                                                                                                        |

| • |     | that the exchange ratio is fixed and will not fluctuate in the event that the market price of Bridge Class A                                        
 common stock decreases relative to the market price of Apollo common stock between the date of the merger agreement and the closing of the mergers; |

| • |     | the conclusions of the special committee and the Bridge Board that, after a thorough process conducted at the                                                                                                                                           
 direction of the special committee, with the assistance of experienced independent legal