Corporate Credit
Our Approach
Apollo is active across private and public corporate credit markets, providing a comprehensive suite of financing solutions across the credit return spectrum.
Our scale and expertise have helped us become a financing partner of choice for companies of all stripes - from large, investment grade corporations to sponsor-backed businesses to third-party lending platforms. Our ability to act as a flexible and reliable solutions provider to large corporates has made large-cap direct lending one of the fastest growing areas of our platform.
Apollo Corporate Credit
Lending across public and private opportunities
Direct Lending
Investment Grade & High Yield Bonds
Broadly Syndicated Loans
Preferred Equity
Private Credit: Potential Benefits
Direct loans and other private solutions can be executed with greater speed and price certainty as compared to traditional financing markets.
Issuers can negotiate bilaterally with one or a handful of lenders.
Private credit can provide structurally sophisticated solutions that are distinct from those offered in the broadly syndicated market.
Our Focus as Lenders
Strong Credit Fundamentals
Downside Protection
Typically Senior, Secured
Our Attributes
Broad, Global Relationships
Proprietary Origination
Long-Term Alignment
Scaled, Diverse and Stable Capital
Active across Private and Traditional Markets, Asset Types and Sectors
Investment Strategies
Direct Lending
- Large corporate direct origination
- First lien and unitranche
- Strong credit documentation
- Seeks illiquidity premium in private markets
Multi-Asset Credit
- Multi-sector credit across public and private markets
- Targets strong credit fundamentals
- Expansive opportunity set with limited overlap to traditional fixed income portfolios
- Semi-liquid credit
Opportunistic
- Dislocation and event-driven opportunities
- Opportunistic hybrid solutions
- Active across public and private markets
- Seeks outsized alpha generation, low correlation to traditional asset classes over a credit cycle
Related Insights
Simple bank loans are becoming like luxury goods as the regulators force major lenders to de-risk. The $1 trillion private capital giant Apollo thinks you – yes, you – can be part of the solution.
In a new episode of The View from Apollo podcast, Apollo Chief Economist Torsten Slok speaks with Jim Vanek, Co-Head of Global Performing Credit at Apollo, about what a “higher for longer” interest-rate environment can mean for investors in private credit markets, and where they see opportunities arising for investors in the months ahead.
Credit | Investment Insight
The Evolution of ESG Credit at Apollo (Volume II): Driving Value Creation at Scale
The whitepaper builds on Apollo’s longstanding commitment to transparency and expertise in credit strategies by providing an in-depth look into how the Apollo ESG credit platform has significantly scaled to support a range of strategies and innovative transactions.
