Company: APO
Filing Date: 2025-05-12
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001193125-25-117912
Chunk: 111

Company: Apollo Global Management, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-05-12
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 111
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 transaction with Bridge that would provide superior value to the Non-Unitholder Stockholders; and |

| • |     | the fact that the special committee believed, including for the reasons described above, that the terms of the                                                                                                            
 transactions represented the most favorable terms that could be obtained from Apollo and that entering into the transactions (on the terms set forth in the merger agreement) was in the best interests of Bridge and the 
 Non-Unitholder Stockholders relative to Bridge remaining a standalone company.                                                                                                                                            |

The special committee and the Bridge Board concluded that, overall, the potentially positive factors outweighed the uncertainties, risks and potentially negative factors relevant to the merger agreement and the 64

transactions contemplated thereby. Accordingly, the special committee and the Bridge Board determined that the merger agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby are fair to, advisable
and in the best interests of Bridge and its stockholders.

Accordingly, the Bridge Board, by a unanimous vote of the directors present and voting, recommends that you vote “FOR” the merger proposal, thereby approving the transactions, including the mergers, at the special meeting.

The foregoing discussion is not exhaustive, but is intended to summarize the material information and factors considered by the special committee and the Bridge Board in their consideration of the merger agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby. The special committee and the Bridge Board reached the decision to approve the entry into the merger agreement and recommend its adoption by Bridge stockholders in light of the factors described above and other factors that the special committee and the Bridge Board believed were appropriate. In view of the variety of factors and the quality and amount of information considered, the special committee and the Bridge Board did not find it practicable to and did not quantify or otherwise assign relative weights to the specific factors considered in reaching their determinations. In addition, each of the members of the special committee and the Bridge Board may have given different weight to different factors. The special committee and the Bridge Board conducted an overall review of the factors described above, including through discussions with Bridge’s management and their respective legal and financial advisors, and considered the factors overall to be favorable to, and to support, their decisions, determinations and recommendations. It should be noted that this explanation of the reasoning of the special committee and the Bridge Board and certain information presented in this section is forward looking in nature and should be read in light of the factors set forth in the section titled “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements” beginning on page 28.

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