Associate, Apollo Capital Solutions – DCM

Position Overview

Apollo is a high‑growth, global alternative asset manager. In our asset management business, we seek to provide our clients excess return at every point along the risk‑reward spectrum from investment grade to private equity with a focus on three investing strategies: yield, hybrid, and equity. For more than three decades, our investing expertise across our fully integrated platform has served the financial return needs of our clients and provided businesses with innovative capital solutions for growth.

Through Athene, our retirement services business, we specialize in helping clients achieve financial security by providing a suite of retirement savings products and acting as a solutions provider to institutions. Our patient, creative, and knowledgeable approach to investing aligns our clients, businesses we invest in, our employees, and the communities we impact, to expand opportunity and achieve positive outcomes. Come to Apollo and join a community of extraordinary people who are committed to a culture of excellence and collaboration in everything that we do.

We invest in our people for the long term and are committed to supporting their development at every stage of their career.

Apollo Capital Solutions (“ACS”) partners with investment teams and clients across the Apollo platform on origination, capital markets, and syndication activity. The centralized team is designed to support seamless and effective execution on behalf of our clients and counter parties, whether corporate issuers, sponsors, investors, or large financial institutions, including banks and insurers. Within ACS, the team is seeking a highly motivated Associate to join the DCM team, focused on covering the Apollo Equity funds (Private Equity, Hybrid Value Fund and Climate).

In this role, the Associate will take on ownership of debt financing execution, pipeline and process management, and interfacing directly with deal teams, financing counter parties, and key internal stakeholders. The ideal candidate brings meaningful deal experience, strong analytical capabilities, and a desire to help build and scale a best‑in‑class capital markets platform.

• Lead and manage transaction pipelines end‑to‑end, providing regular reporting and updates to senior leadership and external counter parties.
• Own the preparation and review of underwriting memos, credit briefings, and approval documentation across a broad range of transactions.
• Drive the screening and underwriting process for leveraged finance and private credit transactions, including LBOs, leveraged loans, high‑yield bonds, and asset‑backed financings.
• Prepare and oversee portfolio performance reporting for internal and external stakeholders, ensuring accuracy and timeliness.
• Conduct advanced capital markets analysis and maintain and enhance databases across leveraged loan, high‑yield, LBO, and private credit markets.
• Manage and deepen bank relationship coverage, acting as a primary point of contact for select counter parties.
• Lead or contribute to ad‑hoc strategic projects and initiatives across the ACS platform.

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, economics, or a related field required.
• 3–4 years of relevant experience in investment banking, specifically within capital markets, leveraged finance, or sponsors coverage, or other capital markets roles.
• FINRA licenses (Series 7, 63, and 79) preferred.
• Strong command of financial markets and credit fundamentals, with demonstrated experience across the full deal lifecycle.
• Hands‑on underwriting experience in leveraged financing transactions, with working knowledge across the capital structure (including securitizations and asset‑backed financing).
• Proven ability to manage multiple transactions simultaneously with excellent attention to detail and organizational discipline.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; ability to distill complex information into clear, concise materials for senior stakeholders.
• Strong interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability to interface across business lines, seniority levels, and external counter parties.
• Proactive,…