Our Approach
For more than 30 years, Private Equity has been a cornerstone of Apollo’s equity platform. Our tenured team works in partnership with management teams to build stronger businesses. Recognizing one size does not fit all, Apollo Private Equity is focused on providing bespoke, innovative capital solutions to Apollo-managed funds’ portfolio companies. Our flexible and vast platform enables us to add value throughout the lifecycle of an investment.
We are responsible stewards of capital and are proud of our commitment to sustainability and demonstrated ability to generate attractive returns for our investors.
At-A-Glance
$70B
Assets Under Management
39%/24%
Gross/Net IRR
Across Apollo’s Flagship Private Equity Funds Since Inception
95+
Investment Professionals
190+
Portfolio Companies
As of June 30, 2025
Building Stronger Businesses
Our Private Equity platform supports great businesses in their journey toward growth and transformation. Our vast platform allows us to support Apollo-managed funds’ portfolio companies throughout the entire lifecycle of an investment.
Purchase Price Matters
Throughout our history, we have maintained our value-orientation, which we believe has allowed us to allocate capital in attractive risk/reward opportunities in any market environment.
Creativity & Flexibility
Our flexible mandate allows us to embrace complexity and strive to identify compelling opportunities across transaction type, industry and geography in any market environment.
Deep Expertise
With more than 120 investment professionals and nearly 20 years of average experience on the senior team, Apollo has a longstanding history of investing through market cycles.
Case Studies
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Novolex, a global leader in sustainable food packaging and one of the largest packaging companies in the U.S., partnered with Apollo Funds to drive transformative growth and advance its sustainability goals.
Atlas Air Worldwide, a global leader in airfreight logistics, partnered with Apollo to soar to new heights.
Learn how Apollo’s Private Equity team is working with Yahoo! to help reinvigorate one of the most iconic brands in internet history.
Key Transactions Types
Apollo-managed Private Equity funds primarily invest across
three transaction types:
Buyouts
Majority ownership in privately-held companies or public companies that we believe would be better served under private ownership
Corporate Carveouts
Acquisition of a standalone asset that once sat within a corporation
Deleveraging
Established companies who need support restructuring their balance sheets
Apollo Portfolio Performance Solutions (APPS)
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 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.
Apollo Empower
We believe expanding opportunity for workers across our funds’ portfolio is fundamental to value creation. Through economic empowerment, financial wellness and retirement preparedness, and upskilling opportunities, workers are empowered to share in the success of Apollo's fund investments and access pathways to long-term financial security.
Economic Empowerment
Promoting the implementation of broad-based equity plans and a culture of ownership at Apollo fund portfolio companies
Financial Wellness & Retirement
Encouraging Apollo fund portfolio companies to invest in the financial wellness and retirement preparedness of workers
Mobility & Upskilling
Creating opportunity for worker mobility and upskilling at Apollo fund portfolio companies
Related Insights
Apollo’s 2024 Impact Report highlights our approach to delivering scalable, measurable impact through the Apollo Impact Mission platform.
Listen to Apollo Chief Economist Torsten Slok speak with Matt O’Mara, Apollo Partner and co-head of Apollo Aligned Alternatives, about how a combination of elevated public stock and bond public valuations, recalcitrant inflation, and higher-for-longer interest rates could be creating new challenges for 60/40 portfolios and an attractive entry point to private markets.
Equity | Investment Insight
Building Better Businesses: How Apollo Equity Helps Drive Value Through Portfolio Company Decarbonization
The whitepaper builds on Apollo’s longstanding commitment to transparency and expertise in equity strategies by providing an in-depth look into how the Apollo Responsible and Sustainable Operations team helps drive value through portfolio company decarbonization.
Explore Our Other Equity Strategies
Notes:
- Sponsors of these awards may have other business relationships with Apollo that incentivized the sponsor(s) to include Apollo among its nominees. Awards and recognitions are not representative of any one client’s or investor’s experience with Apollo and should not be viewed as indicative of future performance of any Apollo fund or transaction.
