APOLLO ASSET MANAGEMENT, INC. FORM 424B4 (Prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b)(4)) Filed 03/30/11 Address 9 WEST 57TH STREET, 42ND FLOOR NEW YORK, NY, 10019 Telephone 212-515-3200 CIK 0001411494 SIC Code 6282 - Investment Advice Industry Investment Management & Fund Operators Sector Financials Fiscal Year 12/31 http://www.edgar-online.com © Copyright 2023, EDGAR Online, a division of Donnelley Financial Solutions. All Rights Reserved. Distribution and use of this document restricted under EDGAR Online, a division of Donnelley Financial Solutions, Terms of Use. Table of Contents Filed pursuant to Rule 424(b)(4) Registration No. 333-150141 PROSPECTUS Apollo Global Management, LLC Class A Shares Representing Class A Limited Liability Company Interests This prospectus relates solely to the resale of up to an aggregate of 35,624,540 Class A shares, representing Class A limited liability company interests of Apollo Global Management, LLC, by the selling shareholders identified in this prospectus (which term as used in this prospectus includes pledgees, donees, transferees or other successors-in-interest), less the aggregate amount of any shares sold by the selling shareholders in the IPO (as defined herein). The selling shareholders acquired the Class A shares in the exempt offerings, both of which closed on August 8, 2007 and which we refer to as the “Private Offering Transactions.” We are registering the offer and sale of the Class A shares to satisfy registration rights we have granted to the selling shareholders. Our Class A shares have been approved for listing on the New York Stock Exchange, or the “NYSE,” under the symbol “APO.” Until our Class A shares are regularly traded on the NYSE, we expect that the selling shareholders initially will sell their shares at a price of $19.00 per share, if any shares are sold. The selling shareholders may offer the shares from time to time as they may determine through public or private transactions or through other means described in the section entitled “Plan of Distribution” at prevailing market prices, at prices different than prevailing market prices or at privately negotiated prices. We will not receive any of the proceeds from the sale of these Class A shares by the selling shareholders. We have agreed to pay all expenses relating to registering the securities. The selling shareholders will pay any brokerage commissions and/or similar charges incurred for the sale of these Class A shares. Investing in our Class A shares involves risks. You should read the section entitled “Risk Factors ” beginning on page 29 for a discussion of certain risk factors that you should consider before investing in our Class A shares. These risks include: • Apollo Global Management, LLC is managed by our manager, which is controlled and owned by our managing partners. Our manager and its affiliates have limited fiduciary duties to us and our shareholders, which may permit them to favor their own interests to the detriment of us and our shareholders. • Our Class A shareholders will have only limited voting rights on matters affecting our businesses and will have no right to elect our manager. • Our organizational documents do not limit our ability to enter into new lines of businesses, and we may expand into new investment strategies, geographic markets and businesses without shareholder consent, each of which may result in additional risks and uncertainties in our businesses. • As discussed in “Material Tax Considerations—Material U.S. Federal Tax Considerations,” Apollo Global Management, LLC will be treated as a partnership for U.S. Federal income tax purposes and you may therefore be subject to taxation on your allocable share of items of income, gain, loss, deduction and credit of Apollo Global Management, LLC. You may not receive cash distributions equal to your allocable share of our net taxable income or even in an amount sufficient to pay the tax liability that results from that income. • Members of the United States Congress have introduced legislation that would, if enacted, preclude us from qualifying for treatment as a partnership for U.S. Federal income tax purposes under the publicly traded partnership rules. If this or any similar legislation or regulation were to be enacted and to apply to us, we would incur a material increase in our tax liability, which could result in a reduction in the value of our Class A shares. Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any state securities commission has approved or disapproved of these securities or determined if this prospectus is truthful or complete. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense. Prospectus dated March 29, 2011. Table of Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Valuation and Related Data ii Terms Used in this Prospectus ii Prospectus Summary 1 Apollo 1 Our Businesses 4 Private Equity 5 Capital Markets 5 Real Estate 7 Strategic Investment Vehicles 8 Competitive Strengths 9 Growth Strategy 10 Performance Results 11 The Private Offering Transactions and the Strategic Investors Transaction 12 Structure and Formation of the Company 13 Deconsolidation of Apollo Funds 17 Tax Considerations 17 Distribution to Our Managing Partners Prior to the Private Offering Transactions 18 Distributions to Our Managing Partners and Contributing Partners Related to the Reorganization 18 The Historical Investment Performance of Our Funds 19 Recent Developments 20 Investment Risks 21 Our Corporate Information 21 The Offering 22 Summary Historical and Other Data 25 Risk Factors 29 Risks Related to Taxation 29 Risks Related to Our Organization and Structure 33 Risks Related to Our Businesses 39 Risks Related to This Offering 66 Special Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements 70 Market and Industry Data and Forecasts 71 Our Structure 72 Reorganization 77 Strategic Investors Transaction 86 Tax Considerations 86 Private Offering Transactions 87 Use of Proceeds 89 Cash Dividend Policy 90 Dividend Policy for Class A Shares 90 Distributions to Our Managing Partners and Contributing Partners 92 Capitalization 93 Dilution 94 Selected Financial Data 96 Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations 99 General 99 Market Considerations 1 02 Managing Business Performance 1 04 Operating Metrics 1 06 The Historical Investment Performance of Our Funds 1 12 Table of Contents Page Overview of Results of Operations 1 17 Investment Platform and Cost Trends 1 23 Results of Operations 1 24 Segment Analysis 1 32 Summary Combined Segment Results for Management Business and Incentive Business 1 46 Liquidity and Capital Resources 1 48 Critical Accounting Policies 1 57 Fair Value Measurements 1 65 Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk 1 69 Sensitivity 1 71 Recent Accounting Pronouncements 1 72 Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements 1 72 Contractual Obligations, Commitments and Contingencies 1 73 Industry 1 75 Asset Management 1 75 Business 1 81 Overview 1 81 Our Businesses 1 85 Private Equity 1 85 Capital Markets 1 90 Real Estate 1 97 Strategic Investment Vehicles 1 98 Competitive Strengths 2 01 Growth Strategy 2 07 Performance Results 2 07 Fundraising and Investor Relations 2 08 Investment Process 2 09 Fees, Carried Interest, Redemption and Termination 2 13 General Partner and Professionals Investments and Co-Investments 2 20 Regulatory and Compliance Matters 2 20 Competition 2 22 Legal Proceedings 2 23 Properties 2 24 Employees 2 24 Management 2 26 Our Manager 2 26 Directors and Executive Officers 2 26 Management Approach 2 31 Limited Powers of Our Board of Directors 2 31 Committees of the Board of Directors 2 32 Lack of Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation 2 32 Executive Compensation 2 32 Summary Compensation Table 2 36 Narrative Disclosure to the Summary Compensation Table and Grants of Plan-Based Awards Table 2 37 Grants of Plan-Based Awards 2 42 Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End 2 43 Option Exercises and Stock Vested 2 44 Potential Payments upon Termination or Change in Control 2 44 Director Compensation 2 47 2007 Omnibus Equity Incentive Plan 2 47 Apollo Management Companies AAA Unit Plan 2 49 Indemnification 2 50 Table of Contents Page Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions 2 51 Agreement Among Managing Partners 2 51 Managing Partner Shareholders Agreement 2 52 Fee Waiver Program 2 54 Roll-Up Agreements 2 54 Exchange Agreement 2 54 Tax Receivable Agreement 2 55 Strategic Investors Transaction 2 56 Strategic Relationship Agreement 2 57 Lenders Rights Agreement 2 57 Private Placement Shareholders Agreement 2 58 Our Operating Agreement and Apollo Operating Group Limited Partnership Agreements 2 58 Special Allocation of AMH Income 2 58 Employment Agreements 2 60 Aircraft 2 60 Statement of Policy Regarding Transactions with Related Persons 2 60 Principal Shareholders 2 61 Selling Shareholders 2 63 Conflicts of Interest and Fiduciary Responsibilities 2 65 Conflicts of Interest 2 65 Fiduciary Duties 2 68 Description of Indebtedness 2 71 AMH Credit Facility 2 71 Description of Shares 2 74 Shares 2 74 Listing 2 76 Transfer Agent and Registrar 2 76 Operating Agreement 2 76 Shareholders Agreement 2 83 Lenders Rights Agreement 2 83 Shares Eligible for Future Sale 2 84 General 2 84 Registration Rights 2 84 Lock-Up Arrangements 2 84 Rule 144 2 85 Rule 701 2 85 Registration Rights 2 86 Material Tax Considerations 2 87 Material U.S. Federal Tax Considerations 2 87 Material Argentine Tax Considerations 3 02 Material Brazilian Tax Considerations 3 05 Material French Tax Considerations 3 06 Material German Tax Considerations 3 07 Material Hong Kong Tax Considerations 3 10 Material Luxembourg Tax Considerations 3 11 Material Mexican Tax Considerations 3 13 Material Singapore Tax Considerations 3 15 Material Spanish Tax Considerations 3 18 Material Swiss Tax Considerations 3 21 Material United Kingdom Tax Considerations 3 23 Material Venezuelan Tax Considerations 3 25 Table of Contents Page Plan of Distribution 327 Legal Matters 330 Experts 330 Where You Can Find More Information 330 Index to Consolidated Financial Statements F-1 Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm F-2 Annex A—Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement of Apollo Global Management, LLC A-1 Table of Contents THE SECURITIES OFFERED HEREBY HAVE NOT BEEN RECOMMENDED BY ANY UNITED STATES FEDERAL OR STATE SECURITIES COMMISSION OR REGULATORY AUTHORITY. FURTHERMORE, THE FOREGOING AUTHORITIES HAVE NOT CONFIRMED THE ACCURACY OR DETERMINED THE ADEQUACY OF THIS DOCUMENT. ANY REPRESENTATION TO THE CONTRARY IS A CRIMINAL OFFENSE. In considering the performance information relating to our funds contained herein, prospective Class A shareholders should bear in mind that the performance of our funds is not indicative of the possible performance of our Class A shares and is also not necessarily indicative of the future results of our funds, even if fund investments were in fact liquidated on the dates indicated, and there can be no assurance that our funds will continue to achieve, or that future funds will achieve, comparable results. In addition, an investment in our Class A shares is not an investment in any of the Apollo funds, and the assets and revenues of our funds are not directly available to us. As a result of deconsolidation of most of our funds, we will not be consolidating those funds in our financial statements for periods after either August 1, 2007 or November 30, 2007. This prospectus is solely an offer with respect to Class A shares, and is not an offer directly or indirectly of any securities of any of our funds. The distribution of this prospectus and the offering and sale of the Class A shares in certain jurisdictions may be restricted by law. We require persons into whose possession this prospectus comes to inform themselves about and to observe any such restrictions. This prospectus does not constitute an offer of, or an invitation to purchase, any of the Class A shares in any jurisdiction in which such offer or invitation would be unlawful. i Table of Contents V ALUATION AND RELATED DATA This prospectus contains valuation data relating to the Apollo funds and related data that have been derived from such funds. When considering the valuation and related data presented in this prospectus, you should bear in mind that the historical results of the private equity, capital markets and real estate funds that Apollo has managed or sponsored in the past are not indicative of the future results that you should expect from the Apollo funds or from us. T ERMS USED IN THIS PROSPECTUS When used in this prospectus, unless the context otherwise requires: • “AAA” refers to AP Alternative Assets, L.P., a Guernsey limited partnership that generally invests alongside certain of our private equity funds and directly in certain of our capital markets funds and in other transactions that we sponsor and manage; the common units of AAA are listed on Euronext Amsterdam N.V.’s Euronext Amsterdam by NYSE Euronext, which we refer to as “Euronext Amsterdam”; • “AAA Investments” refers to AAA Investments, L.P., a Guernsey limited partnership through which AAA’s investments are made; • “AAOF” refers to Apollo Asia Opportunity Master Fund, L.P., our Asian credit-oriented hedge fund, together with its feeder funds; • “ACLF” refers to Apollo Credit Liquidity Fund, L.P.; • “AIC” refers to Apollo Investment Corporation, our publicly traded business development company; • “AIE I” and “AIE II” mean AP Investment Europe Limited and Apollo Investment Europe II, L.P., respectively; • “AMH” refers to Apollo Management Holdings, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership owned by APO Corp. and Holdings; • “APO Corp.” refers to APO Corp., a Delaware corporation and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Apollo Global Management, LLC; • “Apollo,” “we,” “us,” “our” and the “company” refer collectively to Apollo Global Management, LLC and its subsidiaries, including the Apollo Operating Group and all of its subsidiaries; • “Apollo funds” and “our funds” refer to the funds, alternative asset companies and other entities that are managed by the Apollo Operating Group; • “Apollo Operating Group” refers to (i) the limited partnerships through which our managing partners currently operate our businesses and (ii) one or more limited partnerships formed for the purpose of, among other activities, holding certain of our gains or losses on our principal investments in the funds, which we refer to as our “principal investments”; • “Apollo Real Estate” refers to the entities that manage the Apollo Real Estate Investment Funds, a series of private real estate oriented funds initially established in 1993; our managing partners maintain a minority interest in Apollo Real Estate, but neither they nor we exert any managerial control; • “Ares” refers to Ares Corporate Opportunity Fund, which Apollo established in 1997 to invest predominantly in capital markets-based securities, including senior bank loans and high-yield and mezzanine debt, and other related funds; our managing partners maintain a minority interest in Ares, but neither they nor we exert any managerial control; • “Artus” refers to Apollo/Artus Investors 2007-1, L.P.; ii Table of Contents • “Assets Under Management,” or “AUM,” refers to the assets we manage or with respect to which we have control, including capital we have the right to call from our investors pursuant to their capital commitments to various funds. Our AUM equals the sum of: (i) the fair value of our private equity investments plus the capital that we are entitled to call from our investors pursuant to the terms of their capital commitments plus non-recallable capital to the extent a fund is within the commitment period in which management fees are calculated based on total commitments to the fund; (ii) the net asset value, or “NAV,” of our capital markets funds, other than certain senior credit funds, which are structured as collateralized loan obligations (such as Artus, which we measure by using the mark-to-market value of the aggregate principal amount of the underlying collateralized loan obligations), plus used or available leverage and/or capital commitments; (iii) the gross asset values of our real estate entities and the structured portfolio vehicle investments included within the funds we manage, which includes the leverage used by such structured portfolio vehicles; (iv) the incremental value associated with the reinsurance investments of the funds we manage; and (v) the fair value of any other assets that we manage plus unused credit facilities, including capital commitments for investments that may require pre-qualification before investment plus any other capital commitments available for investment that are not otherwise included in the clauses above. During the year ended December 31, 2009, the company refined its definition of AUM to reflect leveraged products that had not been identified in our previous AUM definition. All AUM amounts have been recalculated utilizing the above definition. Fee-generating AUM consists of assets that we manage and on which we earn management fees or monitoring fees pursuant to management agreements on a basis that varies among the Apollo funds. Management fees are normally based on “net asset value,” “gross assets,” “adjusted cost of all unrealized portfolio investments,” “capital commitments,” “adjusted assets,” “stockholders’ equity,” “invested capital” or “capital contributions,” each as defined in the applicable management agreement. Monitoring fees for AUM purposes are based on the total value of certain structured portfolio vehicle investments, which normally include leverage, less any portion of such total value that is already considered in fee-generating AUM. Non-fee generating AUM consists of assets that do not produce management fees or monitoring fees. These assets generally consist of the following: (a) fair value above invested capital for those funds that earn management fees based on invested capital, (b) net asset values related to general partner and co-investment ownership, (c) unused credit facilities, (d) available commitments on those funds that generate management fees on invested capital and (e) structured portfolio vehicle investments that do not generate monitoring fees. We use non-fee generating AUM combined with fee-generating AUM as a performance measurement of our investment activities, as well as to monitor fund size in relation to professional resource and infrastructure needs. Non-fee generating AUM includes assets on which we could earn carried interest income. Our AUM measure includes assets under management for which we charge either no or nominal fees. Our definition of AUM is not based on any definition of assets under management contained in our operating agreement or in any of our Apollo fund management agreements. • “carried interest,” “incentive income” and “carried interest income” refer to interests granted to Apollo by an Apollo fund that entitle Apollo to receive allocations, distributions or fees calculated by reference to the performance of such fund or its underlying investments; • “COF I” and “COF II” mean Apollo Credit Opportunity Fund I, L.P. and Apollo Credit Opportunity Fund II, L.P., respectively; iii Table of Contents • “co-founded” means the individual joined Apollo in 1990, the year in which the company commenced business operations; • “contributing partners” refers to those of our partners (and their related parties) who indirectly own (through Holdings) Apollo Operating Group units; • “distressed and event-driven hedge funds” refers to certain of our capital markets funds, including SVF, VIF, SOMA, AAOF and certain of our strategic investment accounts; • “EPF” refers to Apollo European Principal Finance Fund, L.P., our European non-performing loan fund, together with its feeder funds; • “feeder funds” refer to funds that operate by placing substantially all of their assets in, and conducting substantially all of their investment and trading activities through, a master fund, which is designed to facilitate collective investment by the participating feeder funds. With respect to certain of our funds that are organized in a master-feeder structure, the feeder funds are permitted to make investments outside the master fund when deemed appropriate by the fund’s investment manager; • “Fund I,” “Fund II,” “Fund III,” “Fund IV,” “Fund V,” “Fund VI,” and “Fund VII” mean Apollo Investment Fund, L.P., AIF II, L.P., Apollo Investment Fund III, L.P., Apollo Investment Fund IV, L.P., Apollo Investment Fund V, L.P., Apollo Investment Fund VI, L.P. and Apollo Investment Fund VII, L.P., respectively, together with their parallel funds, as applicable; • “gross IRR” of a fund represents the cumulative investment-related cash flows for all of the investors in the fund on the basis of the actual timing of investment inflows and outflows (for unrealized investment assuming disposition on December 31, 2010 or other date specified) aggregated on a gross basis quarterly, and the return is annualized and compounded before management fees, carried interest and certain other fund expenses (including interest incurred by the fund itself) and measures the returns on the fund’s investments as a whole without regard to whether all of the returns would, if distributed, be payable to the fund’s investors; • “Holdings” means AP Professional Holdings, L.P., a Cayman Islands exempted limited partnership through which our managing partners and our contributing partners hold their Apollo Operating Group units; • “IRS” refers to the Internal Revenue Service; • “managing partners” refers to Messrs. Leon Black, Joshua Harris and Marc Rowan collectively and, when used in reference to holdings of interests in Apollo or Holdings, includes certain related parties of such individuals; • “MIA” represents a “mirrored” investment account established to mirror Funds I and II for investments in debt securities; • “net IRR” of a fund means the gross IRR applicable to all investors, including related parties which may not pay fees, net of management fees, organizational expenses, transaction costs, and certain other fund expenses (including interest incurred by the fund itself) and realized carried interest all offset to the extent of interest income, and measures returns based on amounts that, if distributed, would be paid to investors of the fund; to the extent that an Apollo private equity fund exceeds all requirements detailed within the applicable fund agreement, the estimated unrealized value is adjusted such that a percentage of up to 20.0% of the unrealized gain is allocated to the general partner, thereby reducing the balance attributable to fund investors; • “net return” for Value Funds, SOMA and AAOF represents the calculated return that is based on month-to-month changes in net assets and is calculated using the returns that have been geometrically linked based on capital contributions, distributions and dividend reinvestments, as applicable; iv