Company: APO
Filing Date: 2025-02-24
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001858681-25-000034
Chunk: 322

Company: Apollo Global Management, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-24
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 322
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uring services, placement services, sourcing services and merger and acquisition advisory services, as well as certain authorized market making services. Additionally, certain of our affiliates and/or portfolio companies of the funds we manage provide a variety of services with respect to financial instruments, including loans, that are not subject to broker-dealer regulations, such as originating, administering, arranging, sourcing, structuring, placing and syndicating loans, debt advisory and other similar services to the funds we manage and their portfolio companies, as well as third parties. While we believe these kinds of transactions are beneficial to our clients and the funds we manage, the functions that our affiliates may perform give rise to a number of conflicts of interest, including, for example, with respect to the allocation of investment opportunities and the imposition of additional fees that are borne, directly or indirectly, by the funds we manage. Additionally, in secondary market trades involving securities, certain conflicts of interest and risks may be posed by our affiliated broker-dealer’s ability to execute trades on a principal, riskless principal, or agency basis and could elect to hold inventory of securities as part of its secondary market activities in anticipation of demand for such securities. Such activity may pose conflicts of interest relating to the allocation of investments and the allocation of fees and expenses to the funds and accounts we manage, as well as increased risks relating to the valuation of assets and asset liquidity. 

In connection with the services rendered by our affiliates to the funds we manage and their portfolio companies, such affiliates and/or the portfolio companies receive fees from the funds we manage, portfolio companies of the funds we manage and third-party borrowers. Furthermore, a borrower or an issuer may view all fees, expense reimbursements and interest related to financing (or similar instrument) as one charge it is incurring as part of our financing package to them and therefore doesn’t distinguish between (x) the fees paid to our affiliates and (y) returns earned by the funds we manage whether in the form of interest, investment returns or other fees. As a result of a borrower or issuer taking this view, there could be less negotiation over fees paid to our affiliates, potentially resulting in reduced returns for the funds we manage and an incentive to pursue investment opportunities with greater fee opportunities for our affiliates even at the expense of the investment returns sought by our clients and the funds we manage. Consequently, our relationship with these entities may give rise to conflicts of interest between (i) us and portfolio companies of the funds we manage and/or (ii) us and the funds we manage. Additionally,