Company: APO
Filing Date: 2025-05-14
Form Type: 424B3
Source: 0001193125-25-119946
Chunk: 103

Company: Apollo Global Management, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-05-14
Form: 424B3
Chunk 103
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, Bridge and all of its stockholders, and (iv) recommend to the full Bridge Board what action, if any, should be taken by the Bridge Board with respect to such proposed transaction or any       
 alternative thereto;                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |

| • |     | that the compensation provided to the members of the special committee in respect of their services was not                                                                                                                       
 contingent on the special committee recommending approval of the merger agreement or the transactions or otherwise exercising its delegated authority, as described in this proxy statement/prospectus, in any particular manner; |

| • |     | that the Bridge Board was not permitted to recommend any potential transaction or any alternative thereto for 
 approval by Bridge stockholders or otherwise approve any proposed transaction or any                          |

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| alternative thereto without a prior favorable recommendation of such proposed transaction or alternative thereto by the special committee; |

| • |     | that the special committee had no obligation to recommend any transaction, including a transaction with Apollo, 
 and that the special committee had the authority to reject any proposals made by Apollo or any other person;    |

| • |     | that prior to the entry into the merger agreement, the special committee was permitted to solicit, initiate,                                                                                                    
 propose or introduce the making, submission or announcement of, or encourage, facilitate or assist, any proposal or offer that could constitute a potential transaction with respect to Bridge from any person; |

| • |     | that the special committee, in consultation with its independent financial and legal advisors, conducted an                                      
 extensive process and held over 25 meetings, involving frequent and extensive deliberations and negotiations over a period of time, to consider: |

| • |     | potential transactions and alternatives thereto, including engaging with potential counterparties; and |

| • |     | the merger agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby; |

and, in each case, each member of the special committee was actively engaged in that process on a regular basis and was provided with full access to Bridge’s management and its advisors in connection with the evaluation process (as summarized in the section titled “ The Mergers—Background of the Mergers,” beginning on page 39);

| • |     | that the terms of the merger agreement, including the merger consideration, were the product of extensive                                                                                                                                                 
 negotiations between Bridge and the special committee in consultation with their respective legal and financial advisors, on the one hand, and Apollo and its affiliates and advisors, on the other hand, that resulted in an increase in the implied per 
 share merger consideration