Company: APO
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-079161
Chunk: 100

Company: Apollo Global Management, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form: S-4
Chunk 100
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 a meeting held on February 23, 2025, (a) determined that the merger agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby, on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth therein, are fair to, advisable and in the best interests of, Bridge and its stockholders (including the Non-UnitholderStockholders (as defined in the merger agreement)) and (b) recommended that the Bridge Board (i) approve and declare advisable the merger agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby and (ii) recommend adoption of the merger agreement to Bridge stockholders. Having received the special committee’s recommendation, as well as following consultation with the special committee, Bridge’s senior management and legal and financial advisors to Bridge and the special committee, the Bridge Board, by a unanimous vote of the directors present and voting, at a meeting held on February 23, 2025 (with Mr. Leat present at the meeting but recusing himself from the vote), (i) determined that the merger agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby, including the mergers, on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth therein and in accordance with the DGCL are fair to, advisable and in the best interests of Bridge and its stockholders, (ii) approved the execution, delivery and performance of the merger agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby, (iii) directed that the merger agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby be submitted to Bridge stockholders for adoption at a meeting of such stockholders, and (iv) recommended that Bridge stockholders vote “FOR” the proposal to approve and adopt the merger agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby, including the mergers and “FOR” the proposal to adjourn the special meeting, if necessary or appropriate. 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, the following potentially positive factors, which are not intended to be exhaustive and are not presented in any relative order of importance:

| • |     | that the special committee and the Bridge Board, with the assistance of their respective independent legal and 
 other advisors, had considered alternatives, including continuing to operate Bridge on a                       |

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| standalone basis, other potential value creating options, including financing transactions, or a sale to an alternative buyer or a sale of certain assets or business lines of Bridge, and                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
 considered the risks and uncertainties associated with such alternatives, and each respectively formed the view that no other alternatives were reasonably likely to create greater value for Bridge stock