OREANDA-NEWS. March 20, 2018. Apollo Global Management, LLC (NYSE:APO) (together with its consolidated subsidiaries, “Apollo”) today announced the closing of its previously announced offering of 6.375% Series B Preferred Shares (the “Series B Preferred Shares”) representing limited liability company interests with a liquidation preference of $25.00 per share. The offering amounted to 12,000,000 Series B Preferred Shares for gross proceeds of $300 million.

Apollo intends to contribute the net proceeds from the sale of the Series B Preferred Shares for general corporate purposes to its indirect subsidiaries, Apollo Principal Holdings I, L.P., Apollo Principal Holdings II, L.P., Apollo Principal Holdings III, L.P., Apollo Principal Holdings IV, L.P., Apollo Principal Holdings V, L.P., Apollo Principal Holdings VI, L.P., Apollo Principal Holdings VII, L.P., Apollo Principal Holdings VIII, L.P., Apollo Principal Holdings IX, L.P., Apollo Principal Holdings X, L.P., Apollo Principal Holdings XI, LLC, Apollo Principal Holdings XII, L.P. and AMH Holdings (Cayman), L.P.

Distributions on the Series B Preferred Shares, when and if declared by AGM Management, LLC, Apollo’s manager, will be paid quarterly and are non-cumulative.

Apollo intends to list the Series B Preferred Shares on the NYSE under the ticker symbol “APO PR B”.

BofA Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, UBS Investment Bank and Wells Fargo Securities acted as joint book-running managers for the offering, Barclays, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank Securities, Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, J.P. Morgan, RBC Capital Markets and US Bancorp acted as joint lead managers for the offering.

This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to purchase the Series B Preferred Shares or any other securities, and does not constitute an offer, solicitation or sale in any state or jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to the registration and qualification under the securities laws of such state or jurisdiction. A shelf registration statement relating to these securities has been filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and has become effective.

The offering may be made only by means of a prospectus supplement and an accompanying prospectus. A preliminary prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus relating to the offering were filed with the SEC and are available on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. A copy of the final prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus relating to the offering may be obtained from (1) Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, NC1-004-03-43, 200 North College Street, 3rd Floor, Charlotte, NC 28255-0001, Attention: Prospectus Department or by phone at 1-800-294-1322 or by email at dg.prospectus_requests@baml.com, (2) Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, 180 Varick Street, New York, NY 10014, Attention: Prospectus Department or by phone at 1-866-718-1649 or by email at prospectus@morganstanley.com, (3) UBS Securities LLC, 1285 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10019, Attention: Prospectus Specialist or by phone at 1-888-827-7275 and (4) Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, 608 2nd Avenue South, Suite 1000, Minneapolis, MN 55402, Attention: WFS Customer Service or by phone at 1-800-645-3751 or by email at wfscustomerservice@wellsfargo.com.

About Apollo

Apollo is a leading global alternative investment manager with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago, Bethesda, Toronto, London, Frankfurt, Madrid, Luxembourg, Mumbai, Delhi, Singapore, Hong Kong and Shanghai. Apollo had assets under management of approximately $249 billion as of December 31, 2017 in private equity, credit and real assets funds invested across a core group of nine industries where Apollo has considerable knowledge and resources.