Company: APO
Filing Date: 2025-05-14
Form Type: 424B3
Source: 0001193125-25-119946
Chunk: 98

Company: Apollo Global Management, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-05-14
Form: 424B3
Chunk 98
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 forth in the merger agreement, (b) approved the execution, delivery and performance of the merger agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated therein, (c) directed that the merger agreement and the transactions contemplated therein be submitted for consideration at a special meeting of Bridge stockholders, and (d) recommended that Bridge stockholders vote in favor of the approval of, and adoption of, the merger agreement and the transactions contemplated therein. During the evening on February 23, 2025, following authorization by the Bridge Board and the Apollo Board, Bridge and Apollo executed the merger agreement and all signatories to the ancillary agreements executed such agreements. Also on February 23, 2025, the management teams of each of Bridge and Apollo, together with their respective legal and financial advisors, reviewed and discussed a communications plan to be implemented in connection with the execution of the merger agreement. Prior to the opening of trading on February 24, 2025, Bridge and Apollo issued a joint press release publicly announcing entry into the merger agreement. Bridge’s Board and the Special Committee’s Recommendations and Reasons for the Mergers By unanimous vote, the special committee, at 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