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Apollo to Acquire Argo Infrastructure Partners
- Client News
- January 13, 2025
Paul, Weiss is advising Apollo in its cash-and-stock acquisition of Argo Infrastructure Partners, a leading mid-market asset manager targeting essential infrastructure assets in North America. At closing, Argo will add approximately $6 billion of high-quality assets to the Apollo infrastructure platform, as well as an experienced team focused on infrastructure equity opportunities, and will become a part of Apollo’s Sustainability & Infrastructure Group. The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of 2025, pending customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals.
The Paul, Weiss team is led by corporate partners David Hepp, Joseph Glatt, Matthew Collin and Nicholas Olson, and includes partners Matthew Goldstein, Aaron Schlaphoff, Christodoulos Kaoutzanis, Marco Masotti and Gregory Ezring, and counsel David Levine; tax partner Brian Grieve and counsel Olesia Zakon; executive compensation partners Jean McLoughlin and Ron Aizen, and counsel Jake Glazeski and Bruce Goldberger; intellectual property partner Jonathan Ashtor and counsel Matthew Rosenberg; and litigation counsel Audrey Paquet.