Yearly Archives: 2025

Moving forward as one

Apollo Global Management is weighing up a massive $9.5 billion investment to help Seven & I Holdings, the parent company owner of the iconic 7-Eleven convenience stores, go private. Will Apollo execute the right martial art moves to get the management buyout, led by the founding Ito family, over the line?

Extend and amend…?

Snowy conditions have greeted us as we head in to 2025 but will there be a blizzard of investment activity for GPs with 2020/2021 fund vintages? Apparently they are sitting on more than $500 billion of dry powder (globally) and the five-year investment clock is beginning to tick louder.