Tokyo – July 1, 2025 – Blackstone (NYSE:BX) today announces a key senior leadership appointment in Japan, as the firm continues to expand its footprint in the market and strengthen its commitment to Japan.

Muneya Taniguchi will join as Vice Chairman of Japan and Executive Advisor to lead the firm’s expansion, primarily focusing on western Japan. Prior to Blackstone, he was with MUFG Bank as Deputy President and with Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities as Deputy Chairman, building relationships and guiding business strategies in western Japan.

Atsuhiko Sakamoto, Head of Private Equity, Blackstone Japan, said: “We are pleased to welcome industry veteran Muneya to our Blackstone Japan team. His expertise will be invaluable as we continue to expand our presence in the market and stay differentiated through our scale and partnerships. We are coming on the heels of our most active year in Japan across businesses, investing in fantastic businesses and assets and delivering for investors.”

He continued: “Japan is an integral part of Blackstone’s global business and a key driver of our growth. We wouldn’t be where we are today without the support of our Japanese partners and investors – some who have entrusted us since our founding days 40 years ago.”

Blackstone has executed a number of high-profile transactions in the country, including investing in Tokyo Garden Terrace Kioicho, the largest real estate investment by a foreign investor; Amutus (formerly Infocom), the leading provider of digital comics; Sony Payment Services, carveout of Sony’s payment service provider; I’rom, a preeminent Japanese site management organization; and CMIC, Japan’s top contract research organization. In Private Wealth, the firm has been a pioneer, partnering with leading Japanese financial institutions to create access to its four flagship strategies to individual investors.

About Blackstone
Blackstone is the world’s largest alternative asset manager. Blackstone seeks to deliver compelling returns for institutional and individual investors by strengthening the companies in which the firm invests. Blackstone’s $1.2 trillion in assets under management include global investment strategies focused on real estate, private equity, credit, infrastructure, life sciences, growth equity, secondaries and hedge funds. Further information is available at www.blackstone.com. Follow @blackstone on LinkedIn, X (Twitter), and Instagram.

Contact
Mariko Sanchanta
Mariko.Sanchanta@Blackstone.com
+852 9012 5314

Kekst CNC
Blackstone@kekstcnc.com
090-3239-9348

Former Capital Group CEO and Investment Management Industry Veteran to Advise on Genstar’s Investments and Drive Growth for Portfolio Companies

SAN FRANCISCO, June 30, 2025—Genstar Capital, a leading private equity firm focused on investments in targeted segments of the financial services, industrials, software, and healthcare industries, today announced the appointment of Timothy D. Armour, a distinguished investment management executive, to the firm’s Strategic Advisory Board (“SAB”). Mr. Armour will focus on Genstar’s investments in the financial services sector.

Mr. Armour has over four decades of experience in financial services, including most recently serving as Chair and Chief Executive Officer of Capital Group, the world’s largest active fund manager with over $2.8 trillion in assets under management. Earlier in his career, he served as an equity investment analyst at Capital Group, where he covered global telecommunications and U.S. service companies. Mr. Armour holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Middlebury College.

Tony Salewski, Managing Partner at Genstar Capital, said, “Tim is widely respected in the investment management industry with decades of experience in navigating complex market dynamics. His strategic vision, proven leadership, and extensive network will be invaluable as we continue to deliver long-term value for our portfolio companies.”

Mr. Armour said, “I am thrilled to be joining Genstar’s Strategic Advisory Board. Genstar is known for its deep sector expertise in the financial services industry, and I look forward to working alongside the team to explore new opportunities and support existing investments.”

Genstar’s SAB convenes current and former C-level operational experts with deep sector expertise in the industries in which the firm invests. A cornerstone of its investment thesis, SAB members work closely with Genstar portfolio companies to help them realize their full growth potential. SAB members also collaborate with Genstar’s investment professionals to diligence investment opportunities.

About Genstar Capital

Genstar Capital (www.gencap.com) is a leading private equity firm that has been actively investing in high-quality companies for over 30 years. Based in San Francisco, Genstar works in partnership with its management teams and its network of strategic advisors to transform its portfolio companies into industry-leading businesses. Genstar currently has approximately $50 billion of assets under management and targets investments focused on targeted segments of the financial services, software, healthcare, and industrials industries.

Contact:
For Genstar Capital:
FGS Global
GenstarCapital@fgsglobal.com

HONG KONG, June 26, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Apollo (NYSE: APO) today announced that Celia Yan has joined the firm as a Partner and Head of Hybrid for Asia Pacific. Based in Hong Kong, Yan will lead the expansion of Apollo’s hybrid platform across the region, building on the firm’s momentum in delivering flexible, tailored capital solutions across private markets.

Apollo’s hybrid business focuses on delivering creative, partnership-driven solutions that sit between traditional debt and equity. We provide solutions that help companies fund growth initiatives, generate liquidity and deleverage balance sheets, among other bespoke applications. In this newly created role, Yan will drive origination, execution and growth for Apollo’s hybrid strategies in Asia Pacific.

Yan brings over 20 years of industry experience and extensive private investment expertise across Asia Pacific, most recently serving as Head of APAC Private Credit at BlackRock. Previously, she held senior investment roles at ADM Capital, National Australia Bank and Equity Trustees Limited (EQT).

“Celia’s experience across private markets investing, managing cross-border teams and growing business verticals makes her a key addition as we grow our hybrid business in Asia Pacific,” said Matthew Michelini, Partner and Head of Asia Pacific at Apollo. “As companies and investors increasingly seek structured and creative solutions, Celia will help us deliver for clients across the region.”

Chris Lahoud, Partner at Apollo, said: “As capital markets evolve, we see an attractive opportunity for hybrid growth in the region, providing partnership-oriented, flexible capital to companies and projects.”

“Apollo’s integrated platform and global reach, paired with a strong local presence, position the firm to deliver hybrid capital at scale,” said Celia Yan. “Across Asia Pacific, businesses and sponsors are looking for non-dilutive, customized solutions that can address real market inefficiencies—and hybrid is increasingly the answer. I’m excited to join the team and help accelerate this strategy across the region.”

Yan holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Melbourne and a Master’s in Applied Econometrics from Monash University.

About Apollo

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 credit to private 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. As of March 31, 2025, Apollo had approximately $785 billion of assets under management. To learn more, please visit www.apollo.com.

Apollo Contacts

Noah Gunn
Global Head of Investor Relations
Apollo Global Management, Inc.
(212) 822-0540
IR@apollo.com

Joanna Rose
Global Head of Corporate Communications
Apollo Global Management, Inc.
(212) 822-0491
Communications@apollo.com

NEW YORK – June 16, 2025 – Blackstone (NYSE: BX) announced today that Joseph Cassanelli, former Co-Head of Lazard’s U.S. Financial Institutions Group, has joined Blackstone Tactical Opportunities (“Tac Opps”) as a Senior Managing Director. Mr. Cassanelli will be based in New York and serve as an investment professional within Tac Opps focused on the financial services sector.

Chris James, Global Head of Tac Opps, said: “Joe’s deep expertise and relationships in the financial services sector make him an ideal addition to Tac Opps – as we continue to seek to deliver differentiated performance for our investors. We believe our scale and flexible capital are particularly well suited for today’s market environment, and look forward to working with Joe to continue serving as a trusted capital solutions provider to businesses in financial services and beyond.”

Joseph Cassanelli added: “I am thrilled to join Blackstone Tactical Opportunities, which has built a well-deserved reputation for creativity and innovation as a pioneer in hybrid capital with exceptional investment professionals. I look forward to providing bespoke capital solutions in partnership with outstanding management teams and companies across the financial services sector.”

Mr. Cassanelli spent more than two decades at Lazard, serving as a trusted strategic advisor to a broad range of global financial institutions. He has advised on more than half a trillion dollars of transactions, including many of the largest and most complex mergers, acquisitions, and strategic restructuring transactions in financial services. This included Blackstone’s IPO and C-Corp conversion, and numerous financial services transactions for Tac Opps and insurance-related transactions for Blackstone Credit & Insurance. He also served as Chairman of Lazard’s U.S. Fairness Opinion Committee. Prior to joining Lazard in 2002, Mr. Cassanelli spent several years at Wasserstein Perella & Co. and Deloitte.

Blackstone launched its Tactical Opportunities platform in 2012 – a strategy the firm pioneered – to invest across the landscape of private investment opportunities outside of traditional private equity and private credit. Tac Opps today has $34 billion of assets under management and is the largest hybrid capital solutions platform in the world. The Tac Opps team invests globally across asset classes, industries, and geographies, utilizing bespoke and innovative structures to seek to deliver compelling risk-adjusted returns by identifying and executing on attractive, differentiated investment opportunities.

Blackstone announced in 2023 the record close of Blackstone Tactical Opportunities Fund IV (“BTO IV”), which it is currently investing. Including other single-investor vehicles pursuing the same strategy, the combined BTO IV platform is currently expected to have nearly $10 billion of new capital in its fourth fundraising vintage. This is substantially higher than the BTO III platform and the largest-ever vintage of its kind. Marquee investments in BTO IV include CoreWeave, a specialized provider of critical cloud infrastructure pioneering the AI revolution, and the music royalty platform Recognition Music Group (f/k/a Hipgnosis).

About Blackstone
Blackstone is the world’s largest alternative asset manager. Blackstone seeks to deliver compelling returns for institutional and individual investors by strengthening the companies in which the firm invests. Blackstone’s nearly $1.2 trillion in assets under management include global investment strategies focused on real estate, private equity, credit, infrastructure, life sciences, growth equity, secondaries and hedge funds. Further information is available at www.blackstone.com. Follow @blackstone on LinkedIn, X (Twitter), and Instagram.

Contact
Matt Anderson
Matthew.Anderson@blackstone.com
518-248-7310

SANTA MONICA, CA – June 17, 2025 – Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. (“Clearlake” or the “Firm”), an investment firm founded in 2006 operating integrated businesses across private equity, credit and other related strategies, today announced several senior-level hires strengthening the Firm’s investment and O.P.S.® teams. They include Josh Lederman, Managing Director, Capital Markets; Tasha Pelio, O.P.S.® Managing Director, Marketing & Communications; Eric Rimmke, O.P.S. ® Principal; and Chad Neale, O.P.S.® SVP Information Security.

“Delivering strong outcomes in today’s market requires new and innovative skills sets, and Clearlake continues to grow our senior level ranks with proven talent in critical areas,” said José E. Feliciano, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Clearlake. “We welcome Josh, Tasha, Eric and Chad, and look forward to their immediate contributions to the Firm.”

“We’ve invested in expanding Clearlake’s team to nearly 250 people across the U.S., Europe, Asia and the Middle East to better serve our companies and investors,” said Behdad Eghbali, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Clearlake. “We’re excited for our new senior leaders to join our long-time team members in finding new avenues to unlock added value across our portfolio.”

Clearlake’s new executives include:

Josh Lederman, Managing Director, Capital Markets, will join Clearlake in September after 14 years at KKR, most recently serving as a Managing Director in Debt Capital Markets (“KCM”). In this role, Mr. Lederman was responsible for all debt financings across the technology, tech-enabled services, media and industrial  verticals for KKR. He previously was head of debt financing for KKR’s Ascendant fund, NGT fund and Global Impact fund. Mr. Lederman began his career as an investment banking analyst at Morgan Stanley.

Tasha Pelio, O.P.S.® Managing Director, Marketing & Communications, comes to Clearlake from J.P. Morgan, where she spent more than 17 years, most recently as the Head of Americas Communication for the Commercial & Investment Bank. She previously held marketing and media relations roles at Lehman Brothers, UBS and Citigroup.

Eric Rimmke, O.P.S. ® Principal, most recently served as a Director in Advent International’s Portfolio Support Group. Previously, he served in a similar role at Vista Equity Partners, and his prior experience includes positions at Collective Health, Boston Consulting Group, Qventus, and WePay.

Chad Neale, O.P.S.® SVP Information Security, has over 25 years of risk management and cybersecurity advisory experience. He most recently served as a Principal at Cyblade, a cybersecurity and technology risk transaction advisory firm, with previous experience at Alliant M&A, Cylance, PwC  and First Allied Securities, Inc.

About Clearlake

Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. is an investment firm founded in 2006 operating integrated businesses across private equity, credit and other related strategies. With a sector-focused, approach, the firm seeks to partner with experienced management teams by providing patient, long-term capital to dynamic businesses that can benefit from Clearlake’s operational approach, O.P.S.® The firm’s core private equity target sectors are technology, industrials, and consumer. Clearlake currently has over $90 billion of assets under management and its senior investment principals have led or co-led over 400 investments, and has deployed over $57 billion in liquid and illiquid credit investments globally. The firm is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA with affiliates in Dallas, TX, London, UK, Dublin, Ireland, Luxembourg, Abu Dhabi, UAE, and Singapore. More information is available at www.clearlake.com.

Media contact:

Jennifer Hurson

Lambert

845-507-0571

jhurson@lambert.com

CapMan appoints James O’Neill as Managing Director to its Fund Investor Relations team to serve its growing and internationalising investor base

CapMan is pleased to announce the appointment of James O’Neill as Managing Director, Real Estate to its Fund Investor Relations team. This strategic recruitment underscores CapMan’s commitment to expanding its investor relations and fundraising capabilities and driving growth in the international private real asset sector.

CapMan Real Estate has over the past years demonstrated remarkable growth in its Nordic real estate product offerings, ranging today from value-add funds to open-ended income-oriented funds investing in residential, hotel, and public sector real estate. Since 2013, its Nordic strategies have successfully raised over EUR 3.6 billion from a global institutional investor base. This achievement highlights CapMan Real Estate’s ability to attract international capital and deliver exceptional value to its investors.

James O’Neill brings over 20 years of experience in international real asset fundraising and business development as he joins CapMan. He has previously held key positions as Executive Director and Head of Equity Placement UK at CBRE Capital Advisors and as Head of International Distribution at Legal & General Investment Management, Real Assets.

“We are thrilled to welcome James O’Neill to our team at a time, when real assets already account for three quarters of CapMan’s EUR 6.4 billion asset under management,” says Mari Simula, Head of Fund Investor Relations at CapMan.

“O’Neill’s expertise, global institutional investor network, and deep understanding of private market dynamics will be instrumental in advancing our fundraising initiatives and achieving our strategic objectives,” adds Mika Matikainen, Managing Partner of CapMan Real Estate.

In his new role, O’Neill will be responsible for developing and executing fundraising strategies, identifying potential investors, and managing investor relations primarily for CapMan’s real estate funds.

“I am excited to join CapMan and contribute to its successful and growing real assets product offering,” says O’Neill.

“CapMan has a unique position across private markets in the Nordics, and I look forward to working with the team to continue developing our investment strategies and deepening relationships with our investors,” he continues.

This appointment supports CapMan’s objective to increase its assets under management to EUR 10 billion during the ongoing strategy period.

For more information, please contact:

Mari Simula, Head of Fund Investor Relations, CapMan, mari.simula@capman.com

Mika Matikainen, Managing Partner, CapMan Real Estate, mika.matikainen@capman.com

About CapMan

CapMan is a leading Nordic private asset expert with an active approach to value creation and €6.4 billion in assets under management. As one of the private equity pioneers in the Nordics we have developed hundreds of companies and assets creating significant value for over three decades. Our objective is to provide attractive returns and innovative solutions to investors by enabling change across our portfolio companies. An example of this is greenhouse gas reduction targets that we have set under the Science Based Targets initiative in line with the 1.5°C scenario and our commitment to net-zero GHG emissions by 2040. We have a broad presence in the unlisted market through our local and specialised teams. Our investment strategies cover real estate and infrastructure assets, natural capital and minority and majority investments in portfolio companies. We also provide wealth management solutions. Altogether, CapMan employs around 200 professionals in Helsinki, Jyväskylä, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Oslo, London and Luxembourg. We are listed on Nasdaq Helsinki since 2001. www.capman.com