- Apollo's Private Equity Playbook
- Leadership Team
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Apollo's Private Equity Playbook
- Apollo's Private Equity Playbook
- Leadership Team
- Contact Us
Apollo's Private Equity Playbook
Consistently Contrarian
Our Private Equity platform supports great businesses in their journey toward growth and transformation.
Purchase Price Always Matters
Throughout our history, we have maintained our value-orientation, which we believe has allowed us to allocate capital in attractive risk/reward opportunities across different market environments
Alpha on the Buy, Build and Exit
Our flexible mandate allows us to embrace complexity and strive to identify high - quality opportunities across transaction type, industry and geography across different market environments
Intensely Focused on Returning Capital
With more than 100+ investment professionals and nearly 20 years of average experience on the senior team, Apollo has a longstanding history of investing through market cycles.
At-A-Glance
$69B
Assets Under Management
190+
Portfolio Companies
100+
Investment Professionals
As of December 31, 2025
Alpha on the Buy, Build and Exit
- Buy
- Build
- Exit
Buy
- Buy
- Build
- Exit
Purchase Price Matters
Buying companies at reasonable prices can translate to lower leverage and less risk, which can enable early return of capital
Scale Is Our Strength
Creating value by engaging with portfolio companies and offering expertise, support and resources
Apollo Portfolio Performance Solutions
We seek to create value by engaging with portfolio companies from the very beginning of our partnership – offering expertise, support and resources to help position each company for growth. Apollo Portfolio Performance Solutions (APPS) applies the scale and expertise of Apollo to help management teams build better companies.
Our success is predicated on the success of each business within our funds' portfolio. That’s why we provide their management teams with appropriate resources as an essential element of the Apollo Private Equity ecosystem.
A Disciplined Approach to Realization
Flexible exit pathways and active execution across market cycles
Apollo Capital Solutions
Apollo Capital Solutions (ACS) is a core part of Apollo’s private equity platform, providing integrated capital markets and syndication expertise from entry through exit. Working alongside investment teams and portfolio company management, ACS helps structure and execute financing, recapitalizations and monetization strategies that enhance deal certainty, preserve flexibility and support early liquidity. By bringing capital markets insight into the ownership process—not just at exit—ACS expands the range of pathways to realization and helps Apollo execute across market cycles. Learn more about ACS.
Our Leadership
Management Team
David Sambur
Partner, Co-Head of Private Equity and Head of Equity
Matt Nord
Partner, Co-Head of Private Equity and Head of Hybrid
Antoine Munfakh
Partner, Deputy Global Head of Private Equity
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Also from Apollo
Case Studies
2:31
Apollo Funds helped drive transformative growth for Lottomatica, a leading gaming company in Italy, through strategic acquisitions and a shift towards online gaming.
2:24
Apollo’s ongoing capital partnership with Vonovia demonstrates our ability to provide scaled, bespoke solutions to support the strategic objectives of our closest corporate relationships.
2:28
Apollo’s expertise in gaming and leisure helped The Venetian Resort Las Vegas execute on a transformative value creation plan centered on improving the guest experience.
Related Insights
4:43
Co-Head of Apollo’s Aligned Alternatives Eric Hanno explains why rising concentration, higher valuations and increased correlation in public markets may warrant an alternative approach to equity exposure.
In a higher-rate world, generating alpha in private equity increasingly centers on going back to the basics: disciplined buying, operational value creation and flexible exits.
55:01
In this episode of The View from Apollo, Apollo’s Antoine Munfakh and Bryn Gostin take a deeper dive into the state of private equity in a changing market environment. They discuss what’s driving dispersion across managers, why fundamentals and operational depth have regained prominence and how disciplined investing is shaping outcomes today and in years to come by focusing on “alpha on the buy, the build and the exit.”.
