NEW YORK, Sept. 05, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Apollo (NYSE: APO) at the moment introduced that steadiness sheet and different investor capital managed underneath its Aligned Alternate options platform have agreed to accumulate Netherlands-based tools leasing specialist Beequip from NIBC.
Based in 2015, Beequip has grown to grow to be a number one unbiased tools financing firm within the Netherlands, serving small and medium enterprises (SMEs) throughout Europe and internationally, with a present portfolio of €1.4 billion and €700 million of annual run-rate originations. Beequip gives financing and leasing options for brand spanking new and used heavy tools spanning transport, cranes, containers, maritime and extra.
Beequip will additional the build-out of Apollo’s European tools finance platform, established in 2018 with UK-based Haydock Finance. The acquisition is in step with Apollo’s origination platform technique centered on high-quality, secured credit score technology, diversified throughout company and shopper classes, together with asset-backed finance.
Beequip has established itself as a pacesetter within the tools finance area in its residence market, with a robust workforce and sturdy underwriting to serve a rising base of SMEs within the Netherlands and past, mentioned Kevin Crowe, Companion in Apollo’s Monetary Establishments Group.
We’re happy to welcome the Beequip workforce to Apollo’s origination ecosystem and to assist the enterprise because it continues to scale, assembly important demand from SMEs to facilitate their enterprise plans and gasoline financial progress, added Apollo’s Mikhail Rychev.
Beequip co-founders Giel Claes and Peter Loef mentioned, We’re extraordinarily pleased with our workforce and the success we have now achieved. Leveraging our experience in tools, our deal with used equipment, and our ‘iron above numbers’ philosophy, we have now constantly elevated market share. With the assistance of our self-developed fintech techniques, we have now offered entrepreneurs with user-friendly and tailor-made financing options for heavy tools. We look ahead to working in partnership with Apollo on this thrilling subsequent chapter, with a stable basis for progress domestically and internationally alongside a steadfast dedication to threat administration.
The transaction is topic to customary closing circumstances and anticipated to be accomplished earlier than the top of 2024.
By the primary half of 2024, Apollo reported document debt origination volumes of $92 billion in mixture throughout the agency and its affiliate platforms, and for the 12-month interval ending June 30, 2024, Apollo reported $146 billion of debt origination. Origination is integral to Apollo’s technique in search of extra spreads in personal funding grade credit score to serve its retirement companies companies and different ratings-sensitive liabilities.
About Apollo
Apollo is a high-growth, international various asset supervisor. In our asset administration enterprise, we search to offer our purchasers extra return at each level alongside the risk-reward spectrum from funding grade to personal fairness with a deal with three investing methods: yield, hybrid, and fairness. For greater than three many years, our investing experience throughout our totally built-in platform has served the monetary return wants of our purchasers and offered companies with revolutionary capital options for progress. By Athene, our retirement companies enterprise, we specialise in serving to purchasers obtain monetary safety by offering a collection of retirement financial savings merchandise and appearing as a options supplier to establishments. Our affected person, artistic, and educated strategy to investing aligns our purchasers, companies we spend money on, our workers, and the communities we affect, to broaden alternative and obtain constructive outcomes. As of June 30, 2024, Apollo had roughly $696 billion of belongings underneath administration. To study extra, please go to www.apollo.com.
Contacts
Noah Gunn
International Head of Investor Relations
Apollo International Administration (NYSE:), Inc.
(212) 822-0540
IR@apollo.com
Joanna Rose
International Head of Company Communications
Apollo International Administration, Inc.
(212) 822-0491
communications@apollo.com / EuropeanMedia@apollo.com
