Apollo Completes Acquisition of Bridge Investment Group

Paul, Weiss advised Apollo on its acquisition of Bridge Investment Group in an all-stock transaction. An established leader in residential and industrial real estate as well as other specialized real estate asset classes, Bridge manages about $50 billion of high-quality assets under management in real estate products targeting both institutional and wealth clients. As a platform company within Apollo’s asset management business, Bridge will retain its existing brand, management and investment teams and dedicated capital formation team.

The Paul, Weiss team was led by corporate partners Ross Fieldston, Joseph Glatt, Ian Hazlett, David Hepp and Matthew Collin, and included partners Christodoulos Kaoutzanis, Robert Tananbaum, Aaron Schlaphoff, Danielle Penhall, Matthew Goldstein, Gregory Ezring and Patricia Vaz de Almeida, and counsel Andrea Quek; real estate partners Salvatore Gogliormella, Matthew Dulak and Ida Nowaid, and counsel Ruobing Chen; executive compensation partners Christopher Gonnella and Jean McLoughlin, and counsel Bruce Goldberger and Jake Glazeski; tax partners Brian Grieve and Brad Okun; intellectual property partner Claudine Meredith-Goujon; litigation partners Andre Bouchard, Gregory Laufer and Janus Schutte; and antitrust counsel Charles Crandall, Zuzanna Knypinski and John Magruder.