Apollo has named Chris Edson (pictured) as international head of origination, because the agency prioritises the vertical integration of its international enterprise.
Edson is a 16-year veteran of Apollo and is a member of the agency’s management staff. He has held quite a lot of roles on the agency throughout the debt, fairness and hybrid funding divisions. Most lately, he was co-head of world FIG at Apollo.
Edson additionally labored on the construct out of Apollo’s 16 origination platforms.
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In his new position, he’ll give attention to enhancing Apollo’s built-in origination ecosystem throughout company, sponsor and platform verticals globally.
“Origination is a firmwide effort and high precedence as we search to execute on our long-term progress technique, and we’re excited for Chris to tackle this new position and construct an much more unified, streamlined sourcing engine throughout the agency,” stated Apollo co-president Jim Zelter.
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“With differentiated capabilities throughout our three origination channels and a sturdy transaction pipeline, we consider we’re properly positioned to realize our targets underneath Chris’ management whereas persevering with to ship bespoke capital options of scale for corporates and establishments.”
Apollo lately reported file debt origination volumes of $92bn (£69.81bn) in mixture throughout the agency and its affiliated platforms through the first half of 2024. For the 12-month interval ended 30 June 2024, Apollo reported $146bn of debt origination.
The agency has acknowledged that origination is integral to its technique to “search extra spreads in non-public funding grade credit score to serve its retirement companies companies and different ratings-sensitive liabilities.”
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