Apollo Global

Apollo Global appears on the underwriting syndicate of 3 special purpose acquisition company IPOs in our index, including Acropolis Infrastructure Acquisition Corp., Apollo Strategic Growth Capital II and Global Business Travel Group, Inc. (GBTG). The full list, with the role credited on each cover page, is in the mandates table on this page.

We have not indexed a book-running credit for Apollo Global; every mandate on record is a co-manager or syndicate position. Bookrunner status is read from the prospectus cover, so a blank can also mean the cover did not separate the roles.

$1.3B of gross proceeds across every offering Apollo Global was named on. That is the conventional league-table measure, which credits the full deal to each syndicate member. The narrower figure is its own allocation: $345M, being the units the underwriting agreements assigned to Apollo Global specifically, priced at the $10 standard SPAC unit.

Global Business Travel Group, Inc. (GBTG), which raised $817M in Oct 2020. Apollo Global was credited as a syndicate member on that offering.

1 of the SPACs Apollo Global underwrote closed a combination: Global Business Travel Group, Inc.. Closing means the vehicle filed a current report reporting completion of the acquisition. That is an outcome, not a return.

Apollo Global has no live SPAC mandates in our index; every vehicle it underwrote has either closed a deal or wound up.

33.3%. Of the 3 vehicles Apollo Global underwrote that have already resolved, 1 closed a business combination and 2 liquidated. The market-wide figure is 59.5%, so Apollo Global sits below it. SPACs still searching are excluded, because an unfinished clock is not a result. The rate measures the vehicles, not the bank: a syndicate has no control over whether a sponsor finds a target.

Measured against the $10.00 the units were sold at, the only baseline every SPAC shares, the strongest of Apollo Global's closed deals currently is Global Business Travel Group, Inc. (GBTG) at $10 a share. Treat that as a snapshot, not a return: it ignores dividends, splits, warrant exercise and anything that happened in between, because historical price series are not part of our data. For a proper total-return comparison use your market-data provider with the post-merger tickers.

Acropolis Infrastructure (1 deal), Apollo (1 deal) and APSG (1 deal). Sponsor franchises are resolved from the sponsor entity named in each prospectus, so repeat issuers group together even though every vehicle is a separate legal entity.

Most often Siebert Williams Shank (3), Credit Suisse (3), Barclays (2), Citigroup (2) and Deutsche Bank (2). Syndicate composition is read from the prospectus cover and the underwriting section, so these are co-appearances on the same offering, not a commercial relationship we have any other visibility into.

Its first SPAC IPO in our index priced Oct 6, 2020 and the most recent Jul 9, 2021. It has no live vehicles at present.

2021, with 2 mandates worth $527M of gross proceeds. The chart on this page shows the full year-by-year run, which for most houses traces the 2020-21 boom and the retreat that followed.

The average offering it has been named on raised $448M, against a range from $189M to $817M. Deal size is a reasonable proxy for where a house sits in the market: the bulge bracket concentrates on larger trusts, the SPAC specialists on smaller ones.

Generalist (2) and Industrials (1). Mandates are read from charter language in the prospectus and are often deliberately broad. Many SPACs reserve the right to pursue any industry, in which case no sector is tagged at all.

OTC (1). Listing venue is taken from the exchange record on the registrant's SEC profile.

2. A liquidation means the vehicle reached its combination deadline without closing a deal and returned the trust to public shareholders. That is the mechanism working as designed, not a default. Holders who did not redeem got their pro-rata share of the trust back.

Every figure is read from filings the registrants made with the SEC. Syndicate membership and role come from the prospectus cover and the underwriting section of each IPO prospectus (Form 424B4); outcomes come from the filing record: a current report announcing completion, or a delisting notice ending a liquidation. Nothing here is sourced from press coverage or from Apollo Global itself.