Move Over Warren Buffett: The Koch Brothers Enter LBO Financing In Apollo, ADT Deal
billionaire Leon Black, arranged a $750 million preferred investment with Koch Equity Development. https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoinegara/2016/02/16/apollo-and-adt-move-over-warren-buffett-here-come-the-koch-brothers-with-lbo-financing/amp/

Kushner's family business got hefty loans from Apollo, Citigroup last year, report says https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/02/28/apollo-citigroup-loaned-kushner-companies-millions-new-york-times.html
Who else is a Citigroup investor
https://twitter.com/Tentoads4truth/status/1056673050194698240?s=20

Apollo in the lead to buy Digital First Media - sources(2015)
asking not to be named because the matter is not public. Representatives of Digital First Media, Apollo and Cerberus declined to comment. https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN0MC2C120150316

S.E.C. Issues $53 Million Fine Against Apollo Global Management https://www.lehmaneilen.com/lawyer/2016/09/21/Regulatory-Investigations-and-Enforcement-Actions/S.E.C.-Issues-$53-Million-Fine-Against-Apollo-Global-Management_bl26573.htm
Report: Apollo Nears Purchase of Cox Stations https://www.multichannel.com/.amp/news/report-apollo-nears-purchase-of-cox-stations
How Many Palm Beach Mansions Does a Wall Street Tycoon Need? (Digital First) His spending spree began after he acquired two firms, which would merge into one of America’s largest newspaper chains, Digital First Media. https://www.thenation.com/article/how-many-palm-beach-mansions-does-a-wall-street-tycoon-need/
There’s a reason that hedge funds like Smith’s are known in Wall Street parlance as “vulture funds”: They seek out struggling, bankrupt companies—or countries—to invest in at rock-bottom prices.
Then they find ways to squeeze out maximum profit, from cutting costs to collecting debt repayments at high interest rates. When the investors sense that profits are drying up, they leave the bones behind as they fly off in search of the next opportunity.
The Power Behind the Pipelines: Pilgrim Pipeline
Ares managers have close ties to the hedge fund Apollo Management and to powerful elite-led institutions in Los Angeles, California.
Koch connections. https://public-accountability.org/report/the-power-behind-the-pipelines-pilgrim-pipeline/



Apollo (Koch & Leon Black) to ditch partnership status and become a corporation
Private equity group follows moves by rivals Blackstone and KKR to simplify structure https://amp.ft.com/content/77c022ea-6ccc-11e9-a9a5-351eeaef6d84
Private equity group follows moves by rivals Blackstone and KKR to simplify structure https://amp.ft.com/content/77c022ea-6ccc-11e9-a9a5-351eeaef6d84
Private equity: Apollo’s (Koch/Leon Black) lucrative but controversial bet on insurance Firm’s investment in Athene yielded profits for both but some worry about conflicts of interest https://amp.ft.com/content/a7cb24ec-cae9-11e8-9fe5-24ad351828ab
Why Is Apollo Global Management Acquiring Shutterfly? https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2019/06/19/why-is-apollo-global-management-acquiring-shutterfly/amp/
Apollo Global Management to buy Direct ChassisLink for $2.5 billion
yet another example of Apollo being the private equity market's most aggressive firm so far in 2019. https://amp.axios.com/apollo-global-management-chassislink-755eb9ef-5944-4ed1-a964-148a03498695.html

Apollo Seeks $400 Million for 1,400 Rental Houses
Real estate investors including Blackstone Group LP and Tom Barrack’s Colony Capital Inc. jumped into a business traditionally run by mom-and-pop investors following the foreclosure crisis. https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2018-10-10/apollo-is-said-to-seek-400-million-for-1-400-rental-houses

Buyout Debt Threatens Apollo’s Big Shale Bet
EP Energy becomes private equity’s latest trouble spot in oil patch; viability at risk as shares tumble https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/buyout-debt-threatens-apollos-big-shale-bet-11554289200
EP Energy becomes private equity’s latest trouble spot in oil patch; viability at risk as shares tumble https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/buyout-debt-threatens-apollos-big-shale-bet-11554289200
Adding/ Mr. Welsh joined Apollo in 2017 in the Real Assets Debt Group Prior to that time, he was a Managing Director in the Origination Group at Ladder Capital. Koch #KochNetwork https://relationshipscience.com/person/aaron-welsh-109541235