S3: Sponsor and Secondary Solutions
Our Approach
S3 is Apollo’s Sponsor and Secondary Solutions business. It provides a holistic set of financing and liquidity solutions across the yield, hybrid and equity spectrum to asset managers and limited partners. As a natural extension of Apollo’s global investment platform, S3 is able to offer partner-oriented capital across asset classes including private equity, private credit, infrastructure and real estate. Our flexible solutions seek to help private market participants meet their strategic goals at a wide range of capital costs.
GP and Asset Manager Solutions
Financing Solutions
- NAV-based fund finance and other fund-secured lending
- Secured lending to management companies
- Preferred equity and mezzanine debt solutions
Continuation Solutions
- Single-asset solutions
- Multi-asset solutions
- Fund-wide and multi-fund solutions
Partnership Capital
- GP minority equity and seed capital for funds
- LP capital
- Revenue shares and other strategic partnerships
LP and Investor Solutions
Credit Solutions
- Liquidity solutions for single private debt funds / single manager LP interests
- Liquidity solutions for multi-fund portfolios and strips
- Liquidity solutions for portfolios of direct investments and other illiquid interests
Equity & Hybrid Solutions
- Liquidity solutions for single fund / single manager LP interests
- Liquidity solutions for multi-fund portfolios and strips
- Liquidity solutions for portfolios of direct investments and other illiquid interests
Fund Finance and Structured Lending
- Asset- and portfolio-based lending and other secured liquidity solutions
- Preferred financing structures
- Recapitalizations and structured capital injections
S3 x Apollo
S3
- Purposefully designed to provide a holistic set of financing and liquidity solutions for private markets sponsors and investors
- Solutions-oriented with flexible asset class focus across yield, hybrid and equity
- Experienced and dedicated team with a long history of leadership and collaboration, working as trusted partners in the secondaries and liquidity solutions markets
Apollo
- Powered by one of the world’s leading alternative asset managers providing innovative capital solutions
- Global expertise in yield, hybrid and equity and across the risk/reward spectrum
- Partnership-oriented mindset and aligned investment philosophy with a focus on holistic solutions and complexity that we believe is well-suited for secondaries as an opportunistic and dislocation-oriented strategy
Insights and Updates
IN THE NEWS
- OceanSound Partners Closes $1.15 Billion Single-Asset Continuation Transaction in Partnership with Apollo S3 to Support the Continued Growth of SMX
- Apollo’s S3 Spearheads $1B-plus Apogem Co-Investment Secondaries Deal
- BPOC Establishes a $425 Million Continuation Fund Co-Led by Apollo S3, Blackstone Strategic Partners and Five Arrows
- AEA Investors SBPE Announces Closing of $384 Million Continuation Fund for Singer Industrial
- Ardian, Blackstone and Apollo Are Top Buyers of $5 Billion Private-Equity Portfolio
Our Team
Partnership- and collaboration-oriented
Experienced leadership and innovative platform
Demonstrated ability to embrace complexity and creativity
Our Breadth
S3's solutions span the entire private markets landscape.
Credit
Mezzanine
Infrastructure
Real Estate
Energy &
Real Assets
Buyouts
Growth &
Venture
“As structural growth and maturation of the private markets creates an increasing need for solutions-oriented capital, Apollo saw a clear opportunity for a differentiated approach in launching S3.”
Jim Zelter
Apollo Co-President
Disclaimer
S3 is part of Apollo’s integrated platform, but operates with additional protocols to provide enhanced information protection. S3’s focus on confidential information segregation and security allows it to operate similarly to peer secondary firms in the market.
