Venture of Apollo Global Management and Stone Tower Capital

Presented to: Presented by: Team Members: Prof. Amar Karkhanis Team 3 Tapassya Giri Manali Gaonkar Bushra Chishty Akash Halankar Aditya Jadhav Varad Pitale Saurabh Naik Nitesh Salunke

About Apollo Global Management LLC

y It is an alternative investment management

firm, founded in 1990 by former Drexel Burnham Lambert banker Leon Black. y The firm specializes in leveraged buyout transactions and purchases of securities involving corporate restructuring, and industry consolidations. y Apollo is headquartered in New York City, and also has in many countries y The firm has invested over $16 billion in companies. y As of September 2011, Apollo managed over US$65 billion of investor commitments across its private equity, capital markets and real estate funds and other investment vehicles making it one of the largest alternative investment management firms globally

About Stone Tower Capital LLC

y It is a leading independent alternative credit asset manager with approximately $17 y y y

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billion in assets under management. The firm, founded in 2001. It specializes in a variety of corporate and structured credit and credit-related products. Stone Tower has a global investor base that includes state and county pension funds, superannuation funds, corporate pension funds, insurance companies, family offices, university endowments, and high-net-worth individuals. The firm is headquartered in New York with offices in Los Angeles and Dublin. Stone Tower operates through its advisory affiliates which are registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission as investment advisers under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940.

Case study: Apollo Global Management to Acquire Stone Tower Capital

y Apollo Global Management, LLC and its subsidiaries as agreed to merge y

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Stone Tower Capital LLC and its related management companies. Stone Tower, is a leading alternative credit manager with approximately $17 billion of assets under management (AUM), into Apollos capital markets business. The transaction will substantially increase Apollos capital markets AUM to approximately $39 billion1, making capital markets Apollos largest business segment upon closing on an AUM basis. Total AUM for Apollo will increase to approximately $82 billion after giving effect to the transaction. The deal will bolster Apollos position as one of the worlds largest and most diverse credit managers by adding significant scale and several new credit product capabilities. The Stone Tower transaction is consistent with Apollos strategy to expand the depth and breadth of its global integrated investment platform and meet the growing secular demand for comprehensive alternative investment solutions.

Case study Continued..

y Stone Tower currently manages approximately $17 billion of alternative

credit assets across a variety of corporate credit funds through separately managed accounts, credit opportunity funds, and 12 Collateralized Loan Obligations (CLOs), as well as structured credit funds. y Stone Towers investment expertise spans a variety of alternative asset classes and strategies including senior loans, high yield bonds, long/short credit, private debt solutions, CLO liabilities, CLO equity, RMBS, CMBS and other asset-backed securities. y Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Subject to certain conditions, the transaction is expected to close by the end of the first quarter of 2012

Motive of Apollo

y To raise Apollos position as one of the worlds largest and most diverse credit

managers
y Increase Apollos capital markets AUM to approximately $39 billion y Total AUM for Apollo will increase to approximately $82 billion after giving

effect to the transaction.

y The Stone Tower transaction is consistent with Apollos strategy to expand the

depth and breadth of its global integrated investment platform

Earnings Per Share

y Earnings Per Share represents the portion of a company's profit allocated to each outstanding

share of common stock. The net income (reported or estimated) for a period divided by the total number of shares outstanding (TSO) during that period.