Apollo invests $1.25B in BMG subsidiary behind legacy Concord bonds, taking a minority stake

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    "title": "Apollo invests $1.25B in BMG subsidiary behind legacy Concord bonds, taking a minority stake - Music Business Worldwide",
    "excerpt": "Apollo Global Management has provided a USD $1.25 billion equity investment tied to BMG , in a deal that allows the music company to repay debt secured against Concord ‘s catalog. Apollo announced the transaction on Thursday (September 17), a little over two weeks after BMG and Concord completed their merger on September 1 â a move which formed a combined company operating under the BMG brand. Apollo -managed funds and affiliates have acquired what Apollo describes as a “noncontrolling interest” in a subsidiary of BMG that holds the legacy Concord asset-backed securities, backed by a catalog of over 1 million songs. In practical terms, Concord has spent the past four years raising money by issuing bonds secured against the royalty income generated by its songs and recordings. Those bonds â asset-backed securities, or ABS â now sit with the combined company following the BMG merger’s close . Apollo ‘s cash allows BMG to pay some of them off. In exchange, Apollo holds a minority position in the subsidiary that holds those bonds â but seemingly not a stake in the BMG ‘topco’ itself. That structure is presumably what Apollo Partner Jamshid Ehsani refers to when he calls the investment “non-dilutive”: Bertelsmann ‘s 67% ownership of BMG , and the 33% held by affiliates of Great Mountain Partners , are untouched by the deal. Jamshid Ehsani , Partner at Apollo , said: “We are pleased...",
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