Equity | Case Study
February 23, 2022
Brightspeed: Broadband Across the Land
In 2021, Apollo Private Equity Funds agreed to acquire Lumen Technologies’ ILEC assets and associated operations to create Brightspeed Internet. Learn more about Brightspeed’s strategy to help bridge the digital divide.
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Join industry leaders Tom Matzzie, Founder and CEO of CleanChoice Energy, and Dickon Pinner, Former Head of Transition Capital at BlackRock and Former Senior Partner & Global Sustainability Lead at McKinsey & Company, for a discussion on the residential solar industry. This session covers evolving U.S. solar policies and tariffs, the surge in electricity demand from data centers, sector-wide financial volatility, and strategic investment opportunities across the U.S. and Europe.
Mergermarket recently profiled Apollo’s equity capital markets activity, noting the firm sold ~$2.4B of equity in early 2025 across a number of transactions, including Lottomatica, ADT and Sun Country.
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As demand for long-term, flexible capital accelerates, private markets can have a vital role to play. Apollo is built to meet the moment.
