Apollo to Acquire Bridge Investment Group in $1.5 Billion Deal

Paul, Weiss is advising Apollo on its acquisition of Bridge Investment Group in an all-stock transaction with an equity value of approximately $1.5 billion. 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. Bridge will provide Apollo with immediate scale to its real estate equity platform and enhance Apollo’s origination capabilities in both real estate equity and credit, which is expected to benefit Apollo’s growing suite of hybrid and real estate product offerings.

The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of 2025, subject to regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions.

The Paul, Weiss team is led by corporate partners Ross Fieldston, Joseph Glatt, Ian Hazlett, David Hepp and Matthew Collin and includes partners Robert Tananbaum, Christodoulos Kaoutzanis, Gregory Ezring, Matthew Goldstein, Danielle Penhall, Aaron Schlaphoff, Reva Raghavan, Manuel Frey, Marco Masotti, Brian Janson, Patricia Vaz de Almeida and Jason Tyler; executive compensation partners Christopher Gonnella, Jean McLoughlin and Jarrett Hoffman, and counsel Jake Glazeski and Bruce Goldberger; tax partners Brian Grieve and Brad Okun; real estate partners Salvatore Gogliormella, Matthew Dulak and Ida Nowaid, and counsel Ruobing Chen; intellectual property partner Claudine Meredith-Goujon; litigation partners Gregory Laufer, Andre Bouchard, Andrew Ehrlich and Janus Schutte, and counsel Pietro Signoracci; and antitrust counsel Charles Crandall, John Magruder and James Parkinson.