Aug
09
To Apollo, AR Global Deal is a Way In
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NEW YORK CITY—For Apollo Global Management, the acquisition of AR Capital’s business will expand its real estate footprint, but in a different way than, say, theBlackstone Group’s entity-level deals for Hilton Worldwide Holdings in 2007 and, most recently, Excel Trust. In this case, the emphasis is not on amassing a huge pool of rental income but rather, tapping into a huge pool of retail investors, in the form of a newly launched business, AR Global, that will pick up where AR Capital left off…